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- Shadow of Fear ** (1964, Paul Maxwell, Clare Owen, Anita West, Alan Tilvern, John Arnatt, Eric Pohlmann, Reginald Marsh, John Sutton, Anthony Wager, Colin Tapley) – Classic Movie Review 13,968
- Race Street **** (1948, George Raft, Marilyn Maxwell, William Bendix, Frank Faylen, Harry Morgan, Gale Robbins) – Classic Movie Review 13,967
- Swamp Fire ** (1946, Johnny Weissmuller, Buster Crabbe, Virginia Grey, Carol Thurston) – Classic Movie Review 13,966
- Dangerous Partners *** (1945, James Craig, Signe Hasso, Edmund Gwenn, Audrey Totter, Warner Anderson, Felix Bressart, Mabel Paige, John Warburton, Henry O’Neill, Grant Withers) – Classic Movie Review 13,965
- A Dangerous Profession **** (1949, George Raft, Ella Raines, Pat O’Brien, Jim Backus, Bill Williams, Roland Winters) – Classic Movie Review 13,964
- Bad Girl **** (1931, Sally Eilers, James Dunn, Minna Gombell, William Pawley, Frank Darien) – Classic Movie Review 13,963
- Pick-Up *** (1933, Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, William Harrigan) – Classic Movie Review 13,962
- Mr Ace *** (1946, George Raft, Sylvia Sidney, Stanley Ridges, Sara Haden, Jerome Cowan, Sid Silvers) – Classic Movie Review 13,961
- Johnny Apollo ** (1940, Tyrone Power, Dorothy Lamour, Edward Arnold, Lloyd Nolan) – Classic Movie Review 13,960
- Nocturne **** (1946, George Raft, Lynn Bari, Virginia Huston, Joseph Pevney, Myrna Dell, Edward Ashley, Walter Sande, Mabel Paige) – Classic Movie Review 13,959
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek ***** (1944, Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn, William Demarest, Porter Hall, Brian Donlevy, Akim Tamiroff) – Classic Movie Review 2622
Writer-producer-director Preston Sturges’s much-loved 1944 screwball comedy The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek is one of his handful of great cinema classics. Sturges’s funny, frantic and tasteless attack on many of America’s most sacred cows from […]
The Station Agent **** (2003, Peter Dinklage, Patricia Clarkson, Bobby Cannavale, Michelle Williams) – Classic Movie Review 2621
Writer-director Thomas McCarthy’s 2003 film is a gorgeously sweet and moving movie about a 4feet 6inch guy called Finbar ‘Fin’ McBride (Peter Dinklage) who has a deep love of railways. Fin has achondroplastic dwarfism, feels ostracised […]
Les combattants [Love at First Fight] **** (2014, Adèle Haenel, Kévin Azaïs) – Movie Review
Kévin Azaïs stars as dreamy blue-collar boy Arnaud, who runs into the doomy, aggressive, muscular middle-class teen Madeleine (Adèle Haenel) when she fights him in training on the beach. They’re absolute opposites. He has good friends, likes […]
Natural Resistance *** (2014) – Movie Review
US film-maker Jonathan Nossiter, best known for his 2014 anti-corporate wine-making documentary Mondovino, returns to the subject, documenting the drastic shifts that have affected the industry in the decade. By chatting with four Italian wine producers about the current […]
The Last Days of Pompeii *** (1935, Preston Foster, Basil Rathbone, Alan Hale) – Classic Movie Review 2620
Directors Merian C Cooper and Ernest B Schoedsack’s 1935 movie turns out not to be a version of the credited Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton novel but rather a tale of a gentle, peace-loving Pompeii blacksmith Marcus […]
The Last Emperor ***** (1987, John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O’Toole) – Classic Movie Review 2619
Co-writer/director Bernardo Bertolucci’s magnificent 1987 movie The Last Emperor about the last imperial ruler of China was a much-deserved world-wide triumph for him and his brave and ambitious British producer, Jeremy Thomas. The Last Emperor won nine […]
Annie Get Your Gun **** (1950, Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern) – Classic Movie Review 2618
The MGM studio, home of the musical, surprisingly lets down Irving Berlin’s great theatre show in a stagey, low-pizzazz movie version with the wrong star. However, director George Sidney’s 1950 movie is all very bright, […]
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- Shadow of Fear ** (1964, Paul Maxwell, Clare Owen, Anita West, Alan Tilvern, John Arnatt, Eric Pohlmann, Reginald Marsh, John Sutton, Anthony Wager, Colin Tapley) – Classic Movie Review 13,968
- Race Street **** (1948, George Raft, Marilyn Maxwell, William Bendix, Frank Faylen, Harry Morgan, Gale Robbins) – Classic Movie Review 13,967
- Swamp Fire ** (1946, Johnny Weissmuller, Buster Crabbe, Virginia Grey, Carol Thurston) – Classic Movie Review 13,966
- Dangerous Partners *** (1945, James Craig, Signe Hasso, Edmund Gwenn, Audrey Totter, Warner Anderson, Felix Bressart, Mabel Paige, John Warburton, Henry O’Neill, Grant Withers) – Classic Movie Review 13,965
- A Dangerous Profession **** (1949, George Raft, Ella Raines, Pat O’Brien, Jim Backus, Bill Williams, Roland Winters) – Classic Movie Review 13,964
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