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Downhill Racer *** (1969, Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Camilla Sparv) – Classic Movie Review 4,181

Robert Redford makes a good job of playing an unsympathetic role as a cocky loner picked for the American Olympic ski team at the Winter Olympics, in the 1969 film Downhill Racer. Director Michael Ritchie’s attractive […]

Aug, 16 · in Reviews

The Childhood of a Leader ***½ (2015, Robert Pattinson, Stacy Martin, Liam Cunningham, Bérénice Bejo, Tom Sweet) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Brady Corbet is all grown up now at the age of 27, and astonishes us with all the imagination and style behind his chilling fable about the rise of fascism in the 20th century. The […]

Aug, 16 · in Reviews

Lights Out *** (2016, Teresa Palmer, Gabriel Bateman, Maria Bello) – Movie Review

Here we go again with things that go bump in the night. And I don’t mean the dust cart that wakes me up at 5.30am picking up all the zillions of bottles from the pub […]

Aug, 16

Hold Back the Dawn **** (1941, Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard, Victor Francen, Walter Abel, Curt Bois) – Classic Movie Review 4180

Happily, there is no holding back director Mitchell Leisen’s marvellous 1941 vintage romantic comedy, based securely on a top-flight Billy Wilder-Charles Brackett screenplay (based on the story Memo to a Movie Producer by Ketti Frings) that is […]

Aug, 16

To Each His Own **** (1946, Olivia de Havilland, John Lund, Roland Culver, Mary Anderson, Philip Terry, Bill Goodwin) – Classic Movie Review 4179

Director Mitchell Leisen’s 1946 drama stars Olivia de Havilland in one of her best performances, winning her first Best Actress Oscar as an unmarried mother who regrets giving away her son (John Lund in his […]

Aug, 15

The Snake Pit **** (1948, Olivia de Havilland, Leo Genn, Mark Stevens, Celeste Holm, Glenn Langan, Leif Erickson, Beulah Bondi. Lee Patrick) – Classic Movie Review 4178

Director Anatole Litvak’s brutal and gruelling 1948 20th Century Fox American psychological drama film The Snake Pit features a blistering Oscar-nominated Best Actress performance from Olivia de Havilland that shines through this tale of a woman committed […]

Aug, 15

Futtock’s End *** (1969, Ronnie Barker, Michael Hordern, Roger Livesey ) – Classic Movie Review 4177

Producer-director Bob Kellett’s fairly inventive and entertaining 1969 mini-feature film is a sound effects only ‘silent’ comedy. Uniquely talented British funnyman Ronnie Barker writes it as vehicle for himself, and it sees him starring as General […]

Aug, 15

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