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A Patch of Blue **** (1965, Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman, Wallace Ford, Ivan Dixon) – Classic Movie Review 4704

Writer/ co-producer/ director Guy Green’s 1965 racially-charged weepie drama is well meaning, conscientiously done and appealing. It was significant at the time in its exploration of racism against the backdrop of the growing US civil […]

Nov, 26 · in Uncategorized

The Diary of Anne Frank **** (1959, Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley Winters, Ed Wynn, Richard Beymer, Gusti Huber, Lou Jacobi, Diane Baker) – Classic Movie Review 4703

Director George Stevens’s harrowing 1959 wartime drama The Diary of Anne Frank films Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett’s Broadway play based on Anne Frank’s diaries to very considerable success as a triple-Oscar-winner for Best Supporting […]

Nov, 26 · in Reviews

A House is Not a Home * (1964, Shelley Winters, Robert Taylor, Cesar Romero, Ralph Taeger, Broderick Crawford, Kaye Ballard, Mickey Shaughnessy) – Classic Movie Review 4702

Shelley Winters (Shirley Schrift), so great in A Place in the Sun (1951), The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and Lolita (1962), has a bad time as legendary Roaring Twenties New York City bordello madam Polly Adler in […]

Nov, 26

Kissin’ Cousins ** (1964, Elvis Presley, Arthur O’Connell, Glenda Farrell, Jack Albertson, Pam Austin, Yvonne Craig, Donald Woods, Tommy Farrell, Beverly Powers, Robert Stone) – Classic Movie Review 4701

Director/ co-writer Gene Nelson’s 1964 dual role musical has as its main attraction in Elvis Presley sharing 10 songs between two Presleys – one blond, the other dark. But, at the end, the two characters share […]

Nov, 25

Homicidal ***½ (1961, Joan Marshall, Glenn Corbett, Patricia Breslin, Eugenie Leontovich, Alan Bunce, Richard Rust) – Classic Movie Review 4700

Producer-director William Castle’s mysterious and eerie 1961 Psycho-style shocker is patently absurd but compelling none the less. It stars Joan Marshall as a homicidal nurse called Emily, who shares a mansion with a paralysed Swedish […]

Nov, 25

Roustabout **½ (1964, Elvis Presley, Barbara Stanwyck, Sue Ann Langdon, Joan Freeman, Leif Erickson, Raquel Welch, Teri Garr) – Classic Movie Review 4697

Director John Rich’s 1964 musical is a colourful but routine vehicle for Elvis Presley, though it is notable as one the few times that he had the support of a major star – Barbara Stanwyck. […]

Nov, 25

The Night Walker *** (1964, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Taylor, Lloyd Bochner, Rochelle Hudson, Judith Meredith, Hayden Rorke, Marjorie Bennett, Jess Barker) – Classic Movie Review 4698

Barbara Stanwyck stars here in 1964 in her last movie as Irene Trent, a wealthy woman who has recurring nightmares, featuring both her apparently dead jealous, blind husband (Hayden Rorke) and a mysterious stranger (Lloyd Bochner), […]

Nov, 25

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