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Since You Went Away **** (1944, Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple, Agnes Moorehead, Monty Woolley, Lionel Barrymore, Guy Madison, Robert Walker, Keenan Wynn, Nazimova, Hattie McDaniel) – Classic Movie Review 4573

Director John Cromwell’s lavish, star-studded 1944 tearjerker boasts winning performances from the superb cast and a poignant, fragrant whiff of the wartime mid-Forties. Producer David O Selznick’s patriotic tribute to the American home front during […]

Oct, 31 · in Reviews

Love Lessons [Lust och fägring stor] *** (1995, Johan Widerberg, Marika Lagercrantz, Tomas von Brümssen, Karin Huldt, Nina Gunke) – Classic Movie Review 4571

This sexy 1995 Swedish rites-of-passage erotic drama film outing comes from writer-director Bo Widerberg, with nepotism working well in the form of director’s son Johan Widerberg as Stig, a 15-year old schoolboy aroused by his 37-year old […]

Oct, 31 · in Reviews

The Love Letter **** (1999, Kate Capshaw, Tom Everett Scott, Tom Selleck, Gloria Stuart, Ellen DeGeneres, Blythe Danner, Geraldine McEwan) – Classic Movie Review 4569

In the sleepy New England town of Loblolly by the Sea, well-preserved, middle-aged, local store-owner Helen MacFarquhar (Kate Capshaw) finds a mysterious love letter hidden in her sofa, and it makes her open to romance, […]

Oct, 31

Portrait of Jennie **** (1948, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore, Lillian Gish, Cecil Kellaway, David Wayne, Albert Sharpe, Henry Hull, Florence Bates) – Classic Movie Review 4568

Director William Dieterle’s mysterious and enjoyable 1948 romance tells an engagingly peculiar story. It stars Joseph Cotten and Jennifer Jones as the destitute, unsuccessful Depression era artist Eben Adams (Cotten) who meets the ghostly, eerily […]

Oct, 30

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing *** (1955, William Holden, Jennifer Jones, Torin Thatcher, Isobel Elsom, Virginia Gregg, Murray Matheson, Keye Luke) – Classic Movie Review 4567

Director Henry King’s 1955 movie is just the very kind of film they don’t make any more – a plush, lovely looking, well-meaning, impressively crafted escapist movie about a tearful romance between the gorgeous Eurasian […]

Oct, 30

Christine *** (1983, Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul, Robert Prosky, Harry Dean Stanton, Christine Belford, Roberts Blossom, Kelly Preston) – Classic Movie Review 4566

Stephen King’s ‘Herbie Goes Homicidal’ story about a 1957 red Plymouth Fury car called Christine revs onto the screen in 1983 in the more than capable hands of director John Carpenter. Now, 21 years after it […]

Oct, 30

Cujo *** (1983, Dee Wallace, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Danny Pintauro, Ed Lauter, Christopher Stone) – Classic Movie Review 4565

Stephen King’s shaggy dog story about a nice 200lb St Bernard dog, who turns bat-bitten rabid killer and mounts a reign of terror on an American small town, is filmed by director Lewis Teague in […]

Oct, 29

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