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The Shop at Sly Corner *** (1947, Oskar Homolka, Derek Farr, Muriel Pavlow, Kenneth Griffith) – Classic Movie Review 8482

Oskar Homolka has a field day playing Desius Heiss, an antique dealer with a secret criminal past, who is ready to kill to save his beautiful violin-playing daughter, Margaret (Muriel Pavlow), in director George King’s […]

May, 18 · in Reviews

The Rage of Paris *** (1938, Danielle Darrieux, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Louis Hayward, Mischa Auer, Helen Broderick) – Classic Movie Review 8481

The snappy acting by Danielle Darrieux, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Louis Hayward, Mischa Auer and Helen Broderick is a treat and director Henry Koster makes the time whiz by (and it is only 78 minutes) in […]

May, 18 · in Uncategorized

The Shop on Main Street [Obchod na korze] ***** (1965, Ida Kaminska, Jozef Kroner, Hana Slivková) – Classic Movie Review 8480

Writer-directors Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 1966 for this 1965 heart-rending saga The Shop on Main Street [Obchod na korze] about a wood-worker Tono (Jozef Kroner) who tries […]

May, 18

The Bridges at Toko-Ri *** (1954, William Holden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March, Mickey Rooney) – Classic Movie Review 8479

James A Michener’s bestselling novel about the friendship of two Korean War jet pilots is strongly cast in director Mark Robson’s high-flying 1954 Paramount Pictures production The Bridges at Toko-Ri. The stars (especially William Holden […]

May, 18

Mayerling **** (1936, Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Marthe Régnier) – Classic Movie Review 8478

Director Anatole Litvak’s original 1936 black and white movie Mayerling is the memorable French hit film based on Claude Anet’s novel of the fateful love of the 19th-century married Hapsburg heir, Archduke Rudolf, for the […]

May, 17

Mayerling *** (1968, Omar Sharif, Catherine Deneuve, James Mason, Ava Gardner, James Robertson Justice, Genevieve Page) – Classic Movie Review 8477

Director Terence Young’s 1968 Mayerling is the third movie version (after 1936’s Mayerling and 1940’s Sarajevo) of the story from Claude Anet’s novel about the 19th-century misalliance of the Austrian Crown Prince, Archduke Rudolf. Mayerling […]

May, 17

Don’t Talk to Strange Men *** (1962, Christina Gregg, Janina Faye, Cyril Raymond) – Classic Movie Review 8476

Director Pat Jackson’s taut, tense and tight little 1962 black and white British thriller Don’t Talk to Strange Men tackles the theme of a child talking with a stranger and phone terror. It stars Christina […]

May, 17

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