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Nightmare **** (1956, Edward G Robinson, Kevin McCarthy, Connie Russell, Virginia Christine) – Classic Movie Review 8,394

The 1956 American crime film noir Nightmare stars Kevin McCarthy as a New Orleans big-band clarinettist who has a nightmare in which he sees himself killing a man in a mirrored room. Kevin McCarthy stars in producers William […]

Apr, 24 · in Uncategorized

My Learned Friend **** (1943, Will Hay, Claude Hulbert, Mervyn Johns) – Classic Movie Review 8393

Will Hay’s last film My Learned Friend, directed in 1943 by Basil Dearden and Will Hay, is extremely funny and has the bonus of an unusually macabre edge to it. Hay plays seedy lawyer William […]

Apr, 24 · in Reviews

The Ghost of St Michael’s **** (1941, Will Hay, Claude Hulbert, Felix Aylmer, Raymond Huntley) – Classic Movie Review 8392

Director Marcel Varnel’s 1941 vintage British black and white comedy thriller The Ghost of St Michael’s stars Will Hay again as a tatty teacher called William Lamb involved with spies once more. Hay takes on […]

Apr, 23

Convict 99 *** (1938, Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Basil Radford, Googie Withers) – Classic Movie Review 8391

Will Hay gets to do his priceless tatty teacher turn again as disgraced school master Dr Benjamin Twist, in director Marcel Varnel’s pleasant and mildly amusing 1938 vintage British black and white comedy Convict 99, […]

Apr, 23

Class Action ** (1991, Gene Hackman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Colin Friels) – Classic Movie Review 8390

Gene Hackman and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio star as father and daughter San Francisco lawyers Jed and Maggie Ward, who battle on opposite sides of a lawsuit, in director Michael Apted’s 1990 thriller Class Action. Will […]

Apr, 23

Class *** (1983, Jacqueline Bisset, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Alan Ruck, John Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 8389

The Brat Pack meets Mrs Robinson in director Lewis John Carlino’s 1983 Class. Jacqueline Bisset has certainly got class as Ellen, the rich, attractive older woman who has a fling with the naive 17-year-old scholarship […]

Apr, 23

Heaven Help Us [Catholic Boys] **** (1985, Donald Sutherland, Andrew McCarthy, John Heard, Kevin Dillon) – Classic Movie Review 8388

Director Michael Dinner’s 1985 Heaven Help Us [Catholic Boys] is a fresh and funny film about Catholic high school life at St Basil’s Catholic Boys’ Prep School in Brooklyn in 1965 that manages to put […]

Apr, 23

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