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- Dead Man’s Wire **** (2025, Bill Skarsgård, Dacre Montgomery, Al Pacino, Cary Elwes, Colman Domingo, Myha’la, John Robinson, Kelly Lynch) – Classic Movie Review 13,853
- Jonathan **** (2016, Jannis Niewöhner, André Hennicke, Julia Koschitz, Thomas Sarbacher, Barbara Auer) – Classic Movie Review 13,852
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Parting Shots *** (1998, Chris Rea, Felicity Kendal, John Cleese, Bob Hoskins, Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Ben Kingsley, Joanna Lumley, Gareth Hunt) – Classic Movie Review 7771
Writer/ producer/ director Michael Winner gathers his friends around him for his reasonably entertaining 1998 black comedy film Parting Shots, which proved to be his parting shot as his final movie. Chris Rea stars as failed […]
Hannibal Brooks *** (1969, Oliver Reed, Michael J Pollard, John Alderton, Wolfgang Preiss, Karin Baal, Helmuth Lohner) -Classic Movie Review 7770
Producer-director Michael Winner’s fondly remembered 1968 British World War Two caper film Hannibal Brooks is a wartime adventure yarn about an elephant crossing the Alps, starring Oliver Reed in one of his more memorable turns […]
You Must Be Joking! *** (1965, Terry-Thomas, Lionel Jeffries, Bernard Cribbins, Wilfrid Hyde White, James Robertson Justice, Michael Callan, Gabriella Licudi, Denholm Elliott, Lee Montague, Leslie Phillips) – Classic Movie Review 7769
Director Michael Winner in his happy early Sixties comedy days turns in a pleasantly amusing Frank Launder-Sidney Gilliat-style satirical comedy about life in the British army in the era of swinging England. The good-humoured, traditional […]
The Cool Mikado * (1963, Kevin Scott, Jill Mai Meredith, Stubby Kaye, Frankie Howerd, Dennis Price, Tommy Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 7768
The 1963 British musical The Cool Mikado is Gilbert and Sullivan according to Michael Winner, which includes space for comedy gods Frankie Howerd and Tommy Cooper. Kevin Scott plays Hank Mikado. His father, American judge […]
The System [The Girl-Getters] **** (1964, Oliver Reed, Jane Merrow, Barbara Ferris) – Classic Movie Review 7,767
Oliver Reed stars in Michael Winner’s 1964 black and white youth sex drama film The System [The Girl-Getters] about teenage tearaways in an English seaside town, where young men seek out female tourists for sexual […]
West 11 *** (1963, Alfred Lynch, Eric Portman, Kathleen Harrison, Diana Dors, Kathleen Breck, Freda Jackson, Finlay Currie, Harold Lang) – Classic Movie Review 7766
Director Michael Winner orchestrates the atmospheric, downbeat 1963 British action crime thriller West 11 with some degree of style, helped by Otto Heller’s gritty, noir-style London location black and white photography and Keith Waterhouse and […]
The Greengage Summer [Loss of Innocence] *** (1961, Kenneth More, Danielle Darrieux, Susannah York) – Classic Movie Review 7765
Director Lewis Gilbert’s 1961 The Greengage Summer [Loss of Innocence] is an engagingly old-fashioned romantic rites-of-passage tale by Rumer (Black Narcissus) Godden about an English teenage girl called Joss Grey (Susannah York) who falls in […]
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- Bond of Fear *** (1956, Dermot Walsh, Jane Barrett, John Colicos, Alan MacNaughtan, Jameson Clark, John Horsley) – Classic Movie Review 13,856
- Other Men’s Women *** (1930, Grant Withers, James Cagney, Mary Astor, Joan Blondell, Regis Toomey) – Classic Movie Review 13,855
- The Bowery **** (1933, Wallace Beery, George Raft, Jackie Cooper, Fay Wray, Pert Kelton, Herman Bing, George Walsh, Oscar Apfel, Harold Huber) – Classic Movie Review 13,854
- Dead Man’s Wire **** (2025, Bill Skarsgård, Dacre Montgomery, Al Pacino, Cary Elwes, Colman Domingo, Myha’la, John Robinson, Kelly Lynch) – Classic Movie Review 13,853
- Jonathan **** (2016, Jannis Niewöhner, André Hennicke, Julia Koschitz, Thomas Sarbacher, Barbara Auer) – Classic Movie Review 13,852
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