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Carry On Sergeant **** (1958, William Hartnell, Bob Monkhouse, Shirley Eaton, Eric Barker, Dora Bryan, Bill Owen, Kenneth Connor, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey) – Classic Movie Review 454

Director Gerald Thomas’s and producer Peter Rogers’s landmark 1958 comedy was such a hit that it turned out to be the first of 30 Carry On movies, Britain’s longest series. The breezy romp that unexpectedly […]

Nov, 27 · in Reviews

Carry On Girls *** (1973, Sidney James, Barbara Windsor, Joan Sims, June Whitfield, Kenneth Connor, Bernard Bresslaw, Peter Butterworth, Jack Douglas, Robin Askwith) – Classic Movie Review 453

‘When it comes to Beauty Queens – it’s Carry On and bust!’ The 25th Carry On movie Carry On Girls from 1973 stars Sidney James as local councillor Sidney Fiddler, who battles bossy feminist Councillor […]

Nov, 27 · in Reviews

Under Capricorn **** (1949, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding, Margaret Leighton, Cecil Parker) – Classic Movie Review 452

‘Mystery, murder and passion from the master of suspense’. Yes, the 1949 British historical thriller Under Capricorn is business as usual from Alfred Hitchcock, but with a little bit of a twist. It is not […]

Nov, 26

The Remains of the Day ***** (1993, Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Christopher Reeve, James Fox, Peter Vaughan, Hugh Grant) – Classic Movie Review 451

Director James Ivory’s and producer Ismail Merchant’s 1993 triumph is an awesomely meticulous adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Booker-prize-winning novel. Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson give the most incredibly impressive, subtle, miniaturist performances as Lord Darlington’s desperately […]

Nov, 25

Maurice ***** (1987, James Wilby, Rupert Graves, Hugh Grant, Denholm Elliott, Simon Callow, Billie Whitelaw, Barry Foster, Judy Parfitt) – Classic Movie Review 450

Bookended by A Room with a View (1985) and Howards End (1992), the 1987 middle film in director James Ivory’s and producer Ismail Merchant’s E M Forster trilogy is adapted from the gay author’s most […]

Nov, 25

Howards End ***** (1992, Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, Samuel West, Prunella Scales, Jemma Redgrave, James Wilby) – Classic Movie Review 449

James Ivory’s triple Oscar-winning 1992 film is in many ways his masterpiece, certainly a close tie with The Remains of the Day (1993). Director Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant’s third adaptation of an E M […]

Nov, 25

Pollock **** (2000, Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Jennifer Connelly, Val Kilmer, Tom Bower, Bud Cort, John Heard, Robert Knott, David Leary, Amy Madigan, Jeffrey Tambor) – Classic Movie Review 448

In 2000 Ed Harris directs himself in a magnificent performance in his harrowing but revealing, moving and quite sterling biographical portrait of the hard-drinking, insecure American abstract expressionist painter, Jackson Pollock (1912-1956). In a stupendous labour […]

Nov, 25

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