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The Deep **** (1977, Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte, Robert Shaw, Louis Gossett Jr, Eli Wallach, Dick Anthony Williams) – Classic Movie Review 8,739

The 1977 adventure film The Deep may be tremendously shallow, but that’s good, right? Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte and Robert Shaw star in a great fun movie based on Peter Benchley’s 1976 deep sea hokum […]

Jul, 20 · in Reviews

The Sweet Ride *** (1968, Tony Franciosa, Michael Sarrazin, Jacqueline Bisset, Bob Denver) – Classic Movie Review 8738

Director Harvey Hart’s appealing 1968 The Sweet Ride features some of the aimless late-Swinging Sixties beach boys and girls of California’s sun-soaked Malibu coast, who don’t want to grow up, though events conspire to teach […]

Jul, 20 · in Reviews

Pink Floyd: The Wall *** (1982, Bob Geldof, Christine Hargreaves, Bob Hoskins, James Laurenson) – Classic Movie Review 8737

Director Alan Parker’s 1982 film Pink Floyd: The Wall, a visual interpretation of Pink Floyd’s massive-selling concept album, is an overblown, much too literal view of the descent into madness of a rock star called […]

Jul, 20
The Diary of a Chambermaid *** (1946, Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith, Hurd Hatfield, Reginald Owen, Judith Anderson) – Classic Movie Review 8736

The Diary of a Chambermaid *** (1946, Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith, Hurd Hatfield, Reginald Owen, Judith Anderson) – Classic Movie Review 8736

Jean Renoir’s 1946 Hollywood version of Octave Mirbeau’s bourgeois-knocking novel about a grasping chambermaid hovers uncertainly between burlesque and tragedy but gives the performers the eagerly grabbed chance for a field day of brio acting. […]

Jul, 20

Diary of a Madman *** (1963, Vincent Price, Nancy Kovack, Chris Warfield, Stephen Roberts, Elaine Devry, Ian Wolfe) – Classic Movie Review 8735

An evil spirit called the Horla (voice of Joseph Ruskin) possesses 19th-century French judge and sculptor Magistrate Simon Cordier (played by Vincent Price), who graduates from killing his pet canary to his model Odette Mallotte […]

Jul, 19

Diary of a Country Priest [Journal d’un Curé de Campagne] ***** (1951, Claude Laydu, Nicole Ladmiral, Jean Riveyre) – Classic Movie Review 8734

Writer-director Robert Bresson’s austere, hauntingly beautiful 1950 French black and white film Diary of a Country Priest [Journal d’un Curé de Campagne] tells the tale of a lonely young priest, the Curé de Ambricourt (Claude […]

Jul, 19

Diary of a Lost Girl [Tagebuch einer Verlorenen] ***** (1929, Louise Brooks, André Roanne, Josef Rovenský, Fritz Rasp) – Classic Movie Review 8733

Director Georg Wilhelm Pabst’s deservedly much admired German late-period silent cult favourite 1929 Diary of a Lost Girl [Das Tagebuch einer Verlorenen] stars Louise Brooks as a sweet young rich gal Thymiane, who goes downhill […]

Jul, 19

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