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Four in the Morning *** (1965, Ann Lynn, Judi Dench, Norman Rodway, Brian Phelan, Joe Melia) – Classic Movie Review 8158

Writer-director Anthony Simmons’s fresh and poignant 1965 British bitter-sweet drama Four in the Morning stars Ann Lynn, Judi Dench, Norman Rodway, Brian Phelan and Joe Melia. An excellent cast of mostly British theatre players bring […]

Feb, 20 · in Reviews

Cattle Queen of Montana ** (1954, Barbara Stanwyck, Ronald Reagan, Gene Evans, Lance Fuller) – Classic Movie Review 8157

Cult director Allan Dwan’s tame though acceptable 1954 Western Cattle Queen of Montana stars Barbara Stanwyck as the battling cattle queen Sierra Nevada Jones, who fights to protect her cattle from raids by both renegade Indians and […]

Feb, 20 · in Reviews

The Stendhal Syndrome [La Sindrome di Stendhal] ** (1996, Asia Argento, Thomas Kretschmann, Marco Leonardi) – Classic Movie Review 8156

Asia Argento stars as Anna Manni, a homicide detective, who unwittingly suffers from the dizzy-making Stendhal Syndrome of the title, battling a serial rapist-killer, in the 1996 The Stendhal Syndrome [La Sindrome di Stendhal]. It […]

Feb, 20

Catherine the Great [The Rise of Catherine the Great] *** (1934, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Elisabeth Bergner, Flora Robson) – Classic Movie Review 8155

The great style of the German-born Catherine II, Empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796, captures the sympathy of the Russians in producer Alexander Korda’s typically lavish, costly version of the tale, intriguingly scripted from […]

Feb, 20

The Catered Affair [Wedding Breakfast] *** (1956, Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds, Barry Fitzgerald, Rod Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 8154

Gifted writer Paddy Chayefsky followed his Marty and The Bachelor Party with another realistic ‘ordinary people’ TV play about Mrs Tom Hurley, a New York Bronx mother insisting on a big wedding with hundreds of […]

Feb, 20

Catchfire **** (1990, Dennis Hopper, Jodie Foster, Dean Stockwell, Vincent Price, John Turturro, Joe Pesci, Fred Ward, Julie Adams) – Classic Movie Review 8153

Director Dennis Hopper’s 1990 Catchfire [Backtrack] stars Jodie Foster as an alluring modern artist called Anne Benton, who witnesses a mob killing and goes on the run from town to town, switching identities, chased by […]

Feb, 20

Four Flies on Grey Velvet [4 mosche di velluto grigio] *** (1971, Michael Brandon, Mimsy Farmer, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Francine Racette, Bud Spencer) – Classic Movie Review 8152

‘When the flies start to crawl, so will your flesh…’ Writer-director Dario Argento’s 1971 Italian giallo horror thriller Four Flies on Grey Velvet [4 mosche di velluto grigio] is the third in director Argento’s Animal Trilogy, following The […]

Feb, 19

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