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- Devil’s Partner *** (1962, Ed Nelson, Edgar Buchanan, Jean Allison, Richard Crane) – Classic Movie Review 13,512
- Orbit (1996, Casper Van Dien, Jan-Michael Vincent, Ulli Lommel, Tyler MacDuff) – Classic Movie Review 13,511
- The Oracle [The Horse’s Mouth] ** (1953, Michael Medwin, Robert Beatty, Virginia McKenna, Mervyn Johns) 2025 – Classic Movie Review 13,510
- Strange Impersonation *** (1946, Brenda Marshall, William Gargan, Hillary Brooke) – Classic Movie Review 13,509
- Two in the Dark ** (1936, Walter Abel, Margot Grahame, Wallace Ford, Gail Patrick, Alan Hale Sr) – Classic Movie Review 13,508
- Two O’Clock Courage *** (1945, Tom Conway, Ann Rutherford, Richard Lane, Jane Greer) – Classic Movie Review 13,507
- Taken 2 *** (2012, Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen) – Classic Movie Review 13,506
- Lionheart [AWOL: Absent Without Leave] ** (1990, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Deborah Rennard, Harrison Page, Lisa Pelikan) – Classic Movie Review 13,505
- The Turning Point [This is Dynamite!] *** (1952, William Holden, Alexis Smith, Edmond O’Brien) – Classic Movie Review 13,504
- The Captive City *** (1951, John Forsythe and Joan Camden) – Classic Movie Review 13,503
Los Olvidados [The Young and the Damned] ***** (1950, Alfonso Mejía, Miguel Inclán, Roberto Cobo, Estela Inda) – Classic Movie Review 9770
Director Luis Buñuel’s incisive, but unsentimental and deliberately non-judgmental 1950 Mexican film Los Olvidados [The Young and the Damned] tackles the appalling living conditions in the slums of Mexico City and their effect on a […]
The Plough and the Stars ** (Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Barry Fitzgerald, Una O’Connor) – Classic Movie Review 9769
The 1936 film The Plough and the Stars is John Ford’s failed labour-of-love version of the Sean O’Casey play about the 1916 Irish rebellion, centring on Nora Clitheroe (Barbara Stanwyck)’s fight to stop her rebel […]
Only You ** (1992, Andrew McCarthy, Kelly Preston, Helen Hunt) – Classic Movie Review 9768
Director Betty Thomas’s 1992 film Only You stars Andrew McCarthy as dollhouse furniture designer Clifford Godfrey, who is rejected by his perfect lover on the eve of their vacation. But the trip is on again […]
The Ploughman’s Lunch **** (1983, Jonathan Pryce, Tim Curry, Rosemary Harris, Frank Finlay, Bill Paterson) – Classic Movie Review 9767
Director Richard Eyre’s intelligent and well-observed 1983 political British drama film The Ploughman’s Lunch stars Jonathan Pryce, who is creepy and convincing as James Penfield, an egotistical radio journalist, who writes a book on Suez […]
Only You **** (1994, Marisa Tomei, Robert Downey Jr, Bonnie Hunt, Billy Zane, Joaquim de Almeida, Fisher Stevens) – Classic Movie Review 9766
‘The important thing is true love.’ Mmm… quite. Director Norman Jewison’s utterly sweet 1994 old-style romantic comedy Only You sets out to prove its own adage as hopeless romantic Faith Corvatch (Marisa Tomei) sets off […]
Only When I Larf ** (1968, Richard Attenborough, David Hemmings, Alexandra Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 9765
Director Basil Dearden’s painless 1968 Only When I Larf is an enjoyably tolerable Sixties British crime caper comedy with brightness, if not subtlety to commend it. It features one of Richard Attenborough’s more flamboyant performances […]
Serenade ** (1956, Mario Lanza, Joan Fontaine, Sara Montiel, Vincent Price) – Classic Movie Review 9764
James M Cain’s dark and gritty 1937 thriller source novel Serenade is emasculated to produce a standard soapy Hollywood musical tale of a poor vineyard worker Damon Vincenti (Mario Lanza) rising to operatic success via […]
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- Devil’s Partner *** (1962, Ed Nelson, Edgar Buchanan, Jean Allison, Richard Crane) – Classic Movie Review 13,512
- Orbit (1996, Casper Van Dien, Jan-Michael Vincent, Ulli Lommel, Tyler MacDuff) – Classic Movie Review 13,511
- The Oracle [The Horse’s Mouth] ** (1953, Michael Medwin, Robert Beatty, Virginia McKenna, Mervyn Johns) 2025 – Classic Movie Review 13,510
- Strange Impersonation *** (1946, Brenda Marshall, William Gargan, Hillary Brooke) – Classic Movie Review 13,509
- Two in the Dark ** (1936, Walter Abel, Margot Grahame, Wallace Ford, Gail Patrick, Alan Hale Sr) – Classic Movie Review 13,508
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