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Sixty Glorious Years [Queen of Destiny] *** (1938, Anna Neagle, Anton Walbrook, C Aubrey Smith, Felix Aylmer) – Classic Movie Review 8036

Director Herbert Wilcox’s colourful 1938 royal historical drama sequel Sixty Glorious Years [Queen of Destiny] stars Dame Anna Neagle as Queen Victoria again in the gorgeously photographed Technicolor follow-up to the 1937 black-and-white hit Victoria the […]

Jan, 20 · in Reviews

Victoria the Great *** (1937, Anna Neagle, Anton Walbrook, Walter Rilla, H B Warner, Felix Aylmer, Mary Morris) – Classic Movie Review 8035

Producer-director Herbert Wilcox’s 1937 historical drama Victoria the Great stars a right regal Anna Neagle who gives an impressive, indeed royal, performance as Queen Victoria, in a stirring black and white look at highspots of […]

Jan, 20 · in Reviews

Nell Gwyn *** (1934, Anna Neagle, Cedric Hardwicke, Jeanne De Casalis) – Classic Movie Review 8034

Director Herbert Wilcox’s 1934 rollicking 1660s-set costume romp Nell Gwyn stars Anna Neagle as brazen common English orange-vendor and actress Nell Gynn, who competes with the snooty aristocratic French Duchess of Portsmouth (Jeanne De Casalis) for the […]

Jan, 20

Jellyfish **** (2018, Liv Hill, Sinead Matthews, Cyril Nri) – Movie Review

I really appreciated Jellyfish. It is first class. Newcomer Liv Hill is just great as 15-year-old schoolgirl Sarah Taylor, the sole carer of her family, including precocious young twin siblings and an unfunctioning manic-depressive mother (Sinead […]

Jan, 19

Lilacs in the Spring ** (1954, Errol Flynn, Anna Neagle, David Farrar) – Classic Movie Review 8033

Producer-director Herbert Wilcox’s 1954 musical Lilacs in the Spring [Let’s Make Up] is an odd movie that veers from drama, comedy and romance towards fantasy. His wife Anna Neagle stars as young entertainer Carole Beaumont, […]

Jan, 19

No Road Back ** (1957, Skip Homeier, Paul Carpenter, Patricia Dainton, Norman Wooland, Margaret Rawlings, Eleanor Summerfield, Alfie Bass, Sean Connery, Philip Ray) – Classic Movie Review 8032

Six years after his first London stage appearance in South Pacific, Connery, aged 27, makes his film debut proper as Spike in a small part in director Montgomery Tully’s 1957 British black and white B-movie […]

Jan, 18

Family Business *** (1989, Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman, Matthew Broderick) – Classic Movie Review 8031

Sean Connery has good fun with his role as an ageing small-time hoodlum, a career criminal called Jessie, in director Sidney Lumet’s excellent, well-plotted 1989 heist thriller Family Business. It is sharply directed by Lumet, […]

Jan, 18

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