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A High Wind in Jamaica **** (1965, Anthony Quinn, James Coburn, Dennis Price, Lila Kedrova, Gert Fröbe, Nigel Davenport, Isabel Dean, Ben Carruthers) – Classic Movie Review 9,097

Aged 15, author Martin Amis played John Thornton in the 1965 DeLuxe Color adventure film A High Wind in Jamaica, an enchanting film version of the Richard Hughes novel. Young Martin Amis, now a famed best-selling […]

Nov, 25 · in Reviews

High, Wide and Handsome *** (1937, Irene Dunne, Randolph Scott, Dorothy Lamour) – Classic Movie Review 9096

Director Rouben Mamoulian’s 1937 film High, Wide and Handsome is a high-spirited and handsome but only moderate musical Western from the Paramount Pictures studio, which at least had the good sense to convene the best […]

Nov, 25 · in Reviews

Ford v Ferrari [Le Mans 66] *** (2019, Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Jon Bernthal, Tracy Letts, Josh Lucas, Caitriona Balfe, Noah Jupe) – Movie Review

Matt Damon and Christian Bale do very well indeed in reliable, stalwart star turns as gifted American car designer Carroll Shelby and brilliant British driver Ken Miles, who battle to build a revolutionary racing car […]

Nov, 24

The Aeronauts ** (2019, Felicity Jones, Eddie Redmayne, Himesh Patel, Tim McInnerny, Anne Reid, Tom Courtenay, Vincent Perez, Phoebe Fox, Robert Glenister, Phoebe Fox, Rebecca Front) – Movie Review

The excellent Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne are fine in The Aeronauts (2019) as Victorian daredevil hot air balloon pilot Amelia Wren and pioneering weather scientist (meteorologist) James Glaisher, and this is a handsome, costly […]

Nov, 24

That’s My Boy ** (1951, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Eddie Mayehoff, Ruth Hussey, Polly Bergen, John McIntire, Marion Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 9095

Director Hal Walker’s 1951 comedy That’s My Boy is one of the best of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis’s early films, with Lewis as the dumb college weakling ‘Junior’ Jackson, who is such a disappointment […]

Nov, 24

She’ll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas *** (1985, Julie Walters, Anthony Higgins, Jane Evers) – Classic Movie Review 9094

Director John Goldschmidt’s 1985 comedy She’ll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas is based on the novel by Eva Hardy and stars Julie Walters, who gives one of her most engaging performances as one of the eight […]

Nov, 24

Searching for Bobby Fischer **** (1993, Max Pomeranc, Ben Kingsley, Joe Mantegna, Joan Allen, Laurence Fishburne) – Classic Movie Review 9093

Writer-director Steven Zaillian’s 1993 biographical drama Searching for Bobby Fischer [Innocent Moves] is a decent, well acted real-life story about a small boy called Josh Waitzkin (Max Pomeranc in his debut) who is a genius […]

Nov, 24

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