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Leave ‘Em Laughing **** (1928, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charlie Hall) – Classic Movie Review 8551
‘What’s worse than an aching tooth at three in the morning. Two of them.’ There is much good-natured mirth when Stan Laurel goes to the dentist’s surgery, with predictable results when he and his mate […]
The Lawyer *** (1970, Barry Newman, Harold Gould, Diana Muldaur, Robert Colbert) – Classic Movie Review 8,550
Co-writer/ producer/ director Sidney J Furie’s entertaining 1970 crime drama mystery movie The Lawyer inspired the Seventies TV show Petrocelli, with Barry Newman creating the role of pushy Italian-American Harvard-educated lawyer Tony Petrocelli, practising in […]
Jim Thorpe – All-American ** (1951, Burt Lancaster, Charles Bickford, Steve Cochran, Phyllis Thaxter) – Classic Movie Review 8549
Director Michael Curtiz’s 1951 biographical sports drama Jim Thorpe – All American [Man of Bronze] stars Burt Lancaster as American-Indian track star Jim Thorpe, who wins both the pentathlon and decathlon in the same Olympics […]
Hoffman *** (1970, Peter Sellers, Sinéad Cusack, Jeremy Bulloch) – Classic Movie Review 8548
Director Alvin Rakoff’s 1970 British comedy Hoffman stars Peter Sellers as lonely office worker Benjamin Hoffman (Sellers), who is obsessed with the about-to-wed typist Janet Smith (Sinéad Cusack) and blackmails her into spending the week with […]
I Love You, Alice B Toklas! *** (1968, Peter Sellers, Jo Van Fleet, Leigh Taylor-Young, Joyce Van Patten, David Arkin, Herb Edelman) – Classic Movie Review 8547
The Jewish middle-class and Sixties hippie cultures are satirised in director Hy Averback’s unevenly amusing 1968 comedy I Love You, Alice B Toklas!, with Peter Sellers on form as a mild West Coast lawyer taking […]
The Happening *** (1967, Anthony Quinn, George Maharis, Michael Parks, Faye Dunaway) – Classic Movie Review 8546
Director Elliot Silverstein’s 1967 dark comedy The Happening takes us back to the Sixties when there were happenings and hippies banded together to abduct businessmen. The Happening is soppy but cheerful stuff, at least until […]
The Hit **** (1984, Terence Stamp, John Hurt, Tim Roth, Laura del Sol, Bill Hunter, Fernando Rey) – Classic Movie Review 8545
The 1984 British movie The Hit is a tough, slightly arty but nail-biting crime thriller directed with flair by Stephen Frears with much of the ironic neo noir style he shows in Gumshoe and The […]
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- Dead Man’s Wire **** (2025, Bill Skarsgård, Dacre Montgomery, Al Pacino, Cary Elwes, Colman Domingo, Myha’la, John Robinson, Kelly Lynch) – Classic Movie Review 13,853
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- The History of Sound ** (2025, Paul Mescal, Josh O’Connor, Chris Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 13,851
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