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Castle on the Hudson [Years Without Days] ** (1940, John Garfield, Ann Sheridan, Pat O’Brien, Burgess Meredith, Henry O’Neill, Jerome Cowan) – Classic Movie Review 8022

John Garfield enjoys an acting field day as mobster Tommy Gordon, the gem-crook gangster who refuses to participate in a Sing Sing prison break because it is his unlucky day, in director Anatole Litvak’s 1940 […]

Jan, 16 · in Reviews

London Suite [Neil Simon’s London Suite] * (1996, Kelsey Grammer, Michael Richards, Julia Louis-Dreyfus) – Classic Movie Review 8021

A very good cast is dreadfully wasted in director Jay Sandrich’s naff, turgid and woeful 1996 comedy London Suite, an adaptation of Neil Simon’s follow-up to his hilarious plays and films California Suite and Plaza […]

Jan, 16 · in Reviews

The Men’s Club ** (1986, Roy Scheider, David Dukes, Richard Jordan, Harvey Keitel, Treat Williams) – Classic Movie Review 8019

The remarkable cast ensures quality acting for director Peter Medak’s oddball, worrying 1986 film The Men’s Club, based on a novel by Leonard Michaels about a group of men who get together to form a […]

Jan, 15

Negatives ** (1968, Peter McEnery, Diane Cilento, Glenda Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 8018

Director Peter Medak’s bizarre 1968 drama Negatives stars Glenda Jackson and Peter McEnery in an everyday tale of non-married pair, whose sex life has the man, used-furniture dealer Theo, impersonating the infamous Edwardian killer Dr Crippen […]

Jan, 15

Pontiac Moon * (1994, Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, Ryan Todd) – Classic Movie Review 8017

Director Peter Medak’s 1994 Pontiac Moon is a juvenile road comedy drama with unrealised pretensions that casts Ted Danson as absent-minded-professor Washington Bellamy, a dad who takes his young kid Andy (Ryan Todd) off in the […]

Jan, 15

Romeo Is Bleeding ** (1993, Gary Oldman, Lena Olin, Annabella Sciorra, Juliette Lewis, Roy Scheider) – Classic Movie Review 8016

Director Peter Medak’s 1993 British crime thriller Romeo Is Bleeding is another incredibly nasty Nineties tale of indulgence and excess, in which Gary Oldman stars as Detective Jack Grimaldi, a New York cop assigned to watch violent […]

Jan, 15

Let Him Have It *** (1991, Tom Courtenay, Christopher Eccleston, Eileen Atkins, Paul Reynolds, Tom Bell, Clare Holman) – Classic Movie Review 8015

The Derek Bentley-Christopher Craig policeman murder case in Fifties London is recreated with flair and great attention to period accuracy by director Peter Medak in the 1991 drama Let Him Have It, following his 1990 […]

Jan, 15

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