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The Pied Piper *** (1942, Monty Woolley, Roddy McDowall, Anne Baxter, Otto Preminger, J Carrol Naish Lester Matthews, Jill Esmond, Peggy Ann Garner ) – Classic Movie Review 7910

Director Irving Pichel’s 1942 The Pied Piper stars Monty Woolley, who plays Mr John Sidney Howard, a child-hating old Englishman on a fishing holiday in eastern France in World War Two when the Germans attack. It […]

Dec, 16 · in Reviews

Pieces of April *** (2003, Katie Holmes, Oliver Platt, Patricia Clarkson, Sean Hayes, Derek Luke, Alison Pill) – Classic Movie Review 7909

Writer-director Peter Hedges’s 2003 Pieces of April stars Katie Holmes as flaky punk April Burns, whose family is coming to Thanksgiving dinner. But her oven is broken and she cannot cook, so she seeks help […]

Dec, 16 · in Reviews

Return to the Edge of the World **** (1978, Michael Powell, John Laurie, Frankie Reidy, Grant Sutherland) – Classic Movie Review 7908

Writer-director Michael Powell returns to Foula, one of the Shetland Isles, scene of his 1937 film The Edge of the World, along with its star John Laurie and a few other surviving members of the […]

Dec, 15

The Edge of the World **** (1937, Niall MacGinnis, Belle Chrystall, John Laurie, Finlay Currie, Eric Berry ) – Classic Movie Review 7907

Writer-director Michael Powell puts heart and soul into The Edge of the World, his deeply felt and involving 1937 black and white film about life on Hirta, a bleak, remote Shetland Island, an Outer Hebridean […]

Dec, 15

Let’s Do It Again *** (1975, Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Calvin Lockhart, Jimmie Walker, John Amos, Ossie Davis) – Classic Movie Review 7906

The team from Uptown Saturday Night does it again in director Sidney Poitier’s 1975 Let’s Do It Again, a ragged but effervescent farce sequel to the 1974 hit, with Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby back in […]

Dec, 15

Uptown Saturday Night ***(1974, Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Harry Belafonte) – Classic Movie Review 7905

The then highly likeable star pair of Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby hit a profitable vein of Seventies-style broad comedy with the 1974 Uptown Saturday Night, a zany farcical tale of two innocents, Steve Jackson […]

Dec, 15

A Piece of the Action ***(1977, Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, James Earl Jones) – Classic Movie Review 7904

Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby team up to play con artists Manny Durrell and Dave Anderson in the meandering and schmaltzy, though endearing 1977 comedy drama A Piece of the Action. The two high-class sneak […]

Dec, 15

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