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Where Angels Fear to Tread *** (1991, Helen Mirren, Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis, Rupert Graves, Barbara Jefford) – Classic Movie Review 2642

Director Charles Sturridge, maker of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited (the 1981 mini-series) and A Handful of Dust (1988), challenges the Ismail Merchant- James Ivory team head on here with an E M Forster adaptation in […]

Jun, 26 · in Reviews

A Handful of Dust **** (1988, James Wilby, Kristin Scott Thomas, Rupert Graves, Anjelica Huston, Judi Dench, Alec Guinness, Stephen Fry) – Classic Movie Review 2641

Director Charles Sturridge, who directed 11 episodes of the 1981 classic TV mini-series Brideshead Revisited, tackles another of Evelyn Waugh’s novels for the big screen in 1988. This sleek and satisfying film version of Waugh’s 1934 A […]

Jun, 26 · in Reviews

The Lodger [The Phantom Fiend] *** (1932, Ivor Novello, Elizabeth Allan, A W Baskcomb, Barbara Everest, Jack Hawkins) – Classic Movie Review 2640

Re-creating his role from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1927 silent classic, Ivor Novello plays a mysterious stranger who may, or may not, be a Jack the Ripper-style serial killer, in the 1932 British film The Lodger. Ivor […]

Jun, 26

The Lodger **** (1944, Laird Cregar, Merle Oberon, George Sanders, Cedric Hardwicke, Sara Allgood) – Classic Movie Review 2639

Director John Brahm’s thrilling 1944 American Victorian melodrama horror film The Lodger provides a wonderful role for Laird Cregar, who is superb as Mr Slade, the mysterious stranger who finds lodgings in London’s Whitechapel district […]

Jun, 25

Hangover Square **** (1945, Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell, George Sanders, Glenn Langan, Faye Marlowe, Alan Napier) – Classic Movie Review 2638

Director John Brahm’s lusty classic 1945 horror thriller stars Laird Cregar as classical composer-pianist George Harvey Bone, who goes crazy when he hears sharp noises, suffers from periods of amnesia and goes on a murder […]

Jun, 25

Hangmen Also Die! *** (1943, Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee) – Classic Movie Review 2,637

Fritz Lang’s 1943 real-life film noir thriller film Hangmen Also Die! is based on the events of the previous year, in which the invaded country’s Nazi administrator was shot by unidentified Czech resistance fighters on […]

Jun, 25

She’s Funny That Way *** (2014, Owen Wilson, Imogen Poots, Jennifer Aniston, Kathryn Hahn, Rhys Ifans, Will Forte) – Movie Review

Peter Bogdanovich’s 2014 screwball comedy She’s Funny That Way proved his last film before his death in January 2022. It stars Owen Wilson, Imogen Poots, Kathryn Hahn, Will Forte, Rhys Ifans, and Jennifer Aniston. The 74-year Peter Bogdanovich had not directed a […]

Jun, 25

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