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- Whispering Smith Hits London [Whispering Smith vs Scotland Yard] ** (1952, Richard Carlson, Greta Gynt, Herbert Lom, Rona Anderson, Alan Wheatley, Dora Bryan, Reginald Beckwith, Stanley Baker, Danny Green) – Classic Movie Review 12,886
- Miss MacTaggart Won’t Lie Down *** (1966, Barbara Mullen, Eric Woodburn, Andrew Downie) – Classic Movie Review 12,885
- Death in Buenos Aires [Muerte en Buenos Aires] *** (2014, Demián Bichir, Chino Darín, Carlos Casella) – Classic Movie Review 12,884
- The Last Stop in Yuma County **** (2023, Jim Cummings, Faizon Love, Jocelin Donahue, Richard Brake, Michael Abbott Jr, Connor Jones, Connor Paolo, Robin Bartlett) – Classic Movie Review 12,883
- Ripley ***** (2024, Andrew Scott, Dakota Fanning, Johnny Flynn) – Classic Movie Review 12,882
- The History Boys **** (2006, Richard Griffiths, Frances de la Tour, Dominic Cooper, Russell Tovey) – Classic Movie Review 12,881
- John and Julie *** (1955, Colin Gibson, Leslie Dudley, Moira Lister, Noelle Middelton, Constance Cummings, Wilfrid Hyde White, Sidney James, Peter Sellers) – Classic Movie Review 12,880
- Double Exposure * (1954, John Bentley, Rona Anderson, Garry Marsh) – Classic Movie Review 12,879
- Charlotte’s Web *** (1973, voices of Debbie Reynolds, Henry Gibson, Paul Lynde, Martha Scott, Agnes Moorehead, Rex Allen) – Classic Movie Review 12,878
- Sunset Across the Bay **** (1975, Gabrielle Daye, Harry Markham, Bob Peck, Peter Sallis) – Classic Movie Review 12,877
Red Ensign [Strike!] *** (1934, Leslie Banks, Carol Goodner, Frank Vosper, Alfred Drayton) – Classic Movie Review 7956
Esteemed British film-maker Michael Powell’s 1934 Red Ensign [US title: Strike!] is an intriguing early low-budget (£12,000) quota quickie from him. Even so, it was Powell’s 12th film in four years, and, humble though it is, it is […]
The Love Test ** (1935, Judy Gunn, Louis Hayward, David Hutcheson, Googie Withers, Bernard Miles, Thorley Walters) – Classic Movie Review 7955
The Love Test is an early Michael Powell 1935 romantic comedy about love shenanigans among a laboratory’s research chemists, who plot to make their disliked new boss, Mary Lee (Judy Gunn), fall for John Gregg […]
The Florodora Girl *** (1930, Marion Davies, Lawrence Gray, Walter Catlett) – Classic Movie Review 7954
The one-time ‘Queen of the Screen’ Marion Davies stars as New York chorus girl Daisy Dell the Florodora Girl, in the Gay Nineties – the 1890s, that is. Daisy’s married friends encourage her to reject her life […]
Floods of Fear *** (1958, Howard Keel, Anne Heywood, Harry H Corbett, Cyril Cusack, John Crawford, Eddie Byrne, John Phillips) – Classic Movie Review 7953
Charles Crichton, best known for his comedies, directs this robust, tough-toned British-made, but American-set 1958 black and white action adventure thriller Floods of Fear. The story is about two convicts (Howard Keel, Cyril Cusack), a […]
Floodtide *** (1949, Gordon Jackson, Rona Anderson, John Laurie, Jack Lambert) – Classic Movie Review 7952
Director Frederick Wilson’s 1949 British drama Floodtide stars Gordon Jackson as young Scots ships apprentice David Shields, who graduates to boat designing, while he is meantime romancing his boss Anstruther (Jack Lambert)’s daughter Mary (Rona […]
No Time for Comedy *** (1940, Rosalind Russell, James Stewart, Genevieve Tobin, Charles Ruggles) – Classic Movie Review 7951
Director William Keighley’s 1940 screwball romantic comedy No Time for Comedy stars James Stewart as comedy playwright Gay Esterbrook who scores a hit with his first Broadway play and then wants to write something heavyweight, […]
No Sad Songs for Me *** (1950, Margaret Sullavan, Wendell Corey, Viveca Lindfors, Natalie Wood) – Classic Movie Review 7950
Director Rudolph Maté’s 1950 drama No Sad Songs for Me is Margaret Sullavan’s swansong in the movies. It is aptly the story of a terminally ill mother, Mary Scott (Sullavan), who will not tell her […]
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Recent Review
- Whispering Smith Hits London [Whispering Smith vs Scotland Yard] ** (1952, Richard Carlson, Greta Gynt, Herbert Lom, Rona Anderson, Alan Wheatley, Dora Bryan, Reginald Beckwith, Stanley Baker, Danny Green) – Classic Movie Review 12,886
- Miss MacTaggart Won’t Lie Down *** (1966, Barbara Mullen, Eric Woodburn, Andrew Downie) – Classic Movie Review 12,885
- Death in Buenos Aires [Muerte en Buenos Aires] *** (2014, Demián Bichir, Chino Darín, Carlos Casella) – Classic Movie Review 12,884
- The Last Stop in Yuma County **** (2023, Jim Cummings, Faizon Love, Jocelin Donahue, Richard Brake, Michael Abbott Jr, Connor Jones, Connor Paolo, Robin Bartlett) – Classic Movie Review 12,883
- Ripley ***** (2024, Andrew Scott, Dakota Fanning, Johnny Flynn) – Classic Movie Review 12,882
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