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We Joined the Navy * (1962, Kenneth More, Lloyd Nolan, Mischa Auer, Derek Fowlds, Joan O’Brien, Denise Warren) – Classic Movie Review 9274
Kenneth More, Jeremy Lloyd, Dinsdale Landen and Derek Fowlds play four sailors who embroil themselves in political nonsense in the Mediterranean in director Wendy Toye’s soggy 1962 comedy We Joined the Navy, which is very […]
England Made Me *** (1973, Peter Finch, Michael York, Hildegard Neil) – Classic Movie Review 9268
Director Peter Duffell’s 1972 England Made Me is a useful and intelligent, if slightly chilly version of Graham Greene’s fine early novel transposed to Seventies fashionable Nazi Germany from its original setting in Sweden. Michael […]
The Accidental Tourist **** (1988, William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Geena Davis) – Classic Movie Review 9246
Director Lawrence Kasdan’s sweet and moving 1988 film The Accidental Tourist stars William Hurt as successful Baltimore travel guide writer Macon Leary, alone, withdrawn and unhappy after his son is accidentally killed in a robbery […]
The Sound and the Fury ** (1959, Yul Brynner, Joanne Woodward, Margaret Leighton) – Classic Movie Review 9183
William Faulkner’s Deep South tour-de-force novel comes to the screen in the diligent but shaky 1959 film The Sound and the Fury from director Martin Ritt. At its centre is a committed but struggling performance […]
The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones ** (1976, Nicky Henson, Trevor Howard, Terry-Thomas, Arthur Lowe, Georgia Brown, Joan Collins) – Classic Movie Review 9165
Nicky Henson was also top-billed in a lesser remake of Henry Fielding’s novel The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones (1976) after his star turn in the cult horror film Psychomania [The Death Wheelers] (1973). No one had […]
Jane Eyre *** (1970, George C Scott, Susannah York, Ian Bannen) – Classic Movie Review 9163
Charlotte Brontë probably would not have liked director Delbert Mann’s smooth and glossy 1970 American TV version of Jane Eyre, which was released in cinemas worldwide. It is just too smooth and glossy. It won […]
The October Man *** (1947, John Mills, Joan Greenwood, Edward Chapman) – Classic Movie Review 9,147
John Mills stars as a brain-damaged amnesiac, who becomes the chief murder suspect, in the 1947 British noir crime drama The October Man. Director Roy Ward Baker’s 1947 British noir crime drama The October Man […]