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Le Bossu [The King’s Avenger] *** (1959, Jean Marais, Bourvil, Sabine Sesselmann) – Classic Movie Review 6785

The dashing Jean Marais stars as Henri de Lagardère, an adventurer knight, who, along with popular French comedian Bourvil as his sidekick Passepoil, performs lots of derring-dos during the Regency of Louis XV, in director […]

Mar, 10

Captain Clegg [Night Creatures] **** (1962, Peter Cushing, Yvonne Romain, Patrick Allen, Oliver Reed, Michael Ripper, Martin Benson) – Classic Movie Review 6626

Director Peter Graham Scott’s 1962 Hammer Films period adventure is a generally very welcome reworking of novel writer Russell Thorndike’s Dr Syn, with the odd extra Hammer-style horror shock and fright to spruce up the […]

Jan, 30

Dr Syn *** (1937, George Arliss, Margaret Lockwood, John Loder, Roy Emerton, Graham Moffatt) – Classic Movie Review 6624

George Arliss’s last movie sees him as Dr Syn, the 18th-century vicar of Dymchurch, Kent, by day but moonlighting as the notorious pirate Captain Clegg by night. Old-style actor Arliss gives an antique barnstorming performance […]

Jan, 30

The Clandestine Marriage **** (1999, Nigel Hawthorne, Joan Collins, Timothy Spall, Paul Nicholls, Natasha Little, Emma Chambers, Tom Hollander) – Classic Movie Review 6554

An excellent cast makes director Christopher Miles’s 1999 British period film work smoothly, nicely and entertainingly. Thanks to all the good work, it is a very considerable success, and a very successful transfer of a play […]

Jan, 13

Fanfan La Tulipe [Fan-Fan the Tulip] **** (1952, Gérard Philipe, Gina Lollobrigida, Marcel Herrand) – Classic Movie Review 6391

Director Christian-Jacque’s sunny, sweet-natured French 1952 swashbuckling romantic comedy adventure stars the dashingly handsome young Gérard Philipe as Fanfan, a cheeky soldier who enrolls in the wars of Louis XV (King of France from 1715 […]

Dec, 11

The Last of the Mohicans *** (1992, Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Russell Means, Eric Schweig, Jodhi May, Steven Waddington, Maurice Roëves, Wes Studi) – Classic Movie Review 4664

Director Michael Mann’s admired 1992 period adventure movie solidly remakes the 1936 original sound version of James Fenimore Cooper’s novel of the French and Indian War, The Last of the Mohicans with Randolph Scott and Binnie Barnes. […]

Nov, 19

Brotherhood of the Wolf [Le Pacte des Loups] **** (2001, Samuel Le Bihan, Mark Dacascos, Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Emilie Dequenne) – Classic Movie Review 4003

A naturalist, Chevalier Gregoire de Fronsac (Samuel Le Bihan), and his Iroquois hunter buddy Mani (Mark Dacascos) are sent to track down a beast killing folk in the 18th-century French countryside. Co-writer/ director Christophe Gans’s […]

Jul, 12

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