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- 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
- Woman in the Dark ** (1934, Fay Wray, Melvyn Douglas, Ralph Bellamy) – Classic Movie Review 13,502
- Live It Up! ** (1963, David Hemmings, Steve Marriott, John Pike, Gene Vincent, Heinz) – Classic Movie Review 13,501
- Be My Guest ** (1965, David Hemmings, Steve Marriott, Andrea Monet, Avril Angers, Joyce Blair, Jerry Lee Lewis) – Classic Movie Review 13,500
- Captain Scarlett ** (1953, Richard Greene, Leonora Amar) – Classic Movie Review 13,499
- True Blue * (1996, Dominic West, Dylan Baker, Johan Leysen, Nicholas Rowe, Geraldine Somerville) – Classic Movie Review 13,498
- The Rescue ** (1988, Kevin Dillon, Christine Harnos, Marc Price, Ned Vaughn) – Classic Movie Review 13,497
The Couch *** (1962, Grant Williams, Shirley Knight, Onslow Stevens) – Classic Movie Review 9666
Producer-director Owen Crump’s 1962 film The Couch is a grisly suspense horror thriller with a screenplay by Robert Bloch (the author of Psycho) about a murderously inclined psychiatric patient (Grant Williams), who, instead of heeding […]
A Very Special Favor ** (1965, Rock Hudson, Leslie Caron, Charles Boyer, Nita Talbot, Dick Shawn, Walter Slezak) – Classic Movie Review 9665
Director Michael Gordon’s 1965 romantic comedy A Very Special Favor stars Charles Boyer as smooth and mature Frenchman Michel Boullard, who, for scant plot reasons, asks a wealthy American oilman called Paul Chadwick (Rock Hudson) if […]
Very Important Person [A Coming-Out Party] *** (1961, James Robertson Justice, Stanley Baxter, Leslie Phillips, Eric Sykes, Richard Wattis) – Classic Movie Review 9664
The super vintage Brit laughter-raisers are on funny form, especially Stanley Baxter, Leslie Phillips and Eric Sykes, in director Ken Annakin’s zesty, entertaining 1961 wartime-set British black and white comedy Very Important Person [A Coming-Out […]
The Van *** (1996, Colm Meaney, Donal O’Kelly, Ger Ryan) – Classic Movie Review 9663
Director Stephen Frears follows up The Snapper (1993) with his lesser but still enjoyable 1996 film The Van, based on Roddy Doyle’s novel The Van, the third in his Barrytown Trilogy. The film stars Colm […]
The Snapper **** (1993, Colm Meaney, Tina Kellegher, Ruth McCabe) Classic Movie Review 9662
A close-knit Dublin family adjusts to the news that the eldest daughter, 20-year old Sharon Curley, is pregnant but will not name the father, in director Stephen Frears’s 1993 BBC Screen Two film The Snapper. […]
A Murder of Quality ** (1991, Denholm Elliott, Joss Ackland, Glenda Jackson, Billie Whitelaw, David Threlfall, Ronald Pickup) – Classic Movie Review 9661
John le Carré’s 1962 novel (his second) finds holidaying spymaster George Smiley (Denholm Elliott) turning amateur sleuth in the 1950s to investigate the murder of a schoolmaster’s wife at a Dorset public school, Carne School. […]
Smiley’s People **** (1982, Alec Guinness, Eileen Atkins, Bill Paterson, Patrick Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 9660
Director Simon Langton’s 1982 TV mini-series Smiley’s People is the eagerly awaited sequel to the 1979 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, which this time has a surprisingly thin plot (at least for this running time of […]
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- 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
- Woman in the Dark ** (1934, Fay Wray, Melvyn Douglas, Ralph Bellamy) – Classic Movie Review 13,502
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