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Pretty Baby ** (1978, Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine, Susan Sarandon, Frances Faye, Antonio Fargas, Gerrit Graham, Mae Mercer, Diana Scarwid, Barbara Steele) – Classic Movie Review 8632

Louis Malle’s highly disturbing and controversial American debut with the 1978 Pretty Baby caused quite a few shock waves with its World War One story set in 1917 about a 12-year-old girl Violet (Brooke Shields), […]

Jun, 23 · in Reviews

Androcles and the Lion *** (1952, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Alan Young, Robert Newton, Maurice Evans, Reginald Gardiner, Elsa Lanchester) – Classic Movie Review 8631

The George Bernard Shaw play roars on to the screen in director Chester Erskine’s 1952 drama Androcles and the Lion, with its ancient Rome story of Androcles (Alan Young), the nice Christian tailor who removes a […]

Jun, 23 · in Reviews

Tamahine ** (1963, John Fraser, Nancy Kwan, Dennis Price, Derek Nimmo, Justine Lord, James Fox, Coral Browne, Michael Gough) – Classic Movie Review 8630

Director Philip Leacock’s 1962 Tamahine is a fusty, mild, old-style romantic comedy with plenty of routine, school-set and culture-clash laughs, based on the novel by Thelma Nicklaus. But it rolls along pleasantly and humorously, though […]

Jun, 23

My Teenage Daughter [Teenage Bad Girl] ** (1956, Anna Neagle, Sylvia Syms, Norman Wooland, Kenneth Haigh, Wilfrid Hyde White, Julia Lockwood, Helen Haye, Wanda Ventham) – Classic Movie Review 8629

‘SYLVIA SYMS ‘teen and terrific…in an explosive role!’ ‘She’s a doll !… she’s a dish !… she’s a delinquent!’ ‘Born good with a desire to be bad!’ Sylvia Syms (playing 17 but actually 22 and […]

Jun, 23

The Tamarind Seed *** (1974, Julie Andrews, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quayle, Oskar Homolka, Sylvia Syms, Dan O’Herlihy) – Classic Movie Review 8628

Writer-director Blake Edwards’s enjoyable 1974 movie The Tamarind Seed is a handsome production, with sprightly direction, and the super, pleasing stars convert Evelyn Anthony’s novel into an attractive, appealing romantic, spy thriller movie. As usual, […]

Jun, 23

Boudu Sauvé des Eaux [Boudu Saved from Drowning] ***** (1932, Michel Simon, Charles Grandval, Marcelle Hainia, Sévérine Lerczinska) – Classic Movie Review 8627

Writer-director Jean Renoir’s famed 1932 French classic Boudu Sauvé des Eaux [Boudu Saved from Drowning] tells a story about the grubby tramp (Michel Simon) who has lost his dog and didn’t want to be saved […]

Jun, 22

Down and Out in Beverly Hills **** (1986, Nick Nolte, Bette Midler, Richard Dreyfuss) – Classic Movie Review 8626

Co-writer / producer / director Paul Mazursky’s 1986 comedy Down and Out in Beverly Hills is a remake of Jean Renoir’s 1932 classic Boudu Sauvé des Eaux and is an unexpected success, mainly thanks to […]

Jun, 22

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