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Esther Waters [Sin of Esther Waters] *** (1947, Kathleen Ryan, Dirk Bogarde, Cyril Cusack, Ivor Barnard, Fay Compton, Mary Clare) – Classic Movie Review 6858
Producer-directors Ian Dalrymple and Peter Proud’s 1947 melodrama takes us back to the bad old days of the 19th century when sweet young kitchen maids like Esther Waters (Kathleen Ryan) could be used and abused […]
The Cowboys **** (1972, John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Bruce Dern, Colleen Dewhurst, Slim Pickens, Sarah Cunningham, Robert Carradine) – Classic Movie Review 6,833
Mark Rydell’s 1972 movie The Cowboys is an unusual and successful Seventies Western with John Wayne giving one of his most impressive late performances as a tough cattleman who has to accept the help of […]
This Woman Is Dangerous ** (1952, Joan Crawford, Dennis Morgan, David Brian, Mari Aldon, Philip Carey) – Classic Movie Review 6830
Joan Crawford and her famous shoulder pads star in director Felix E Feist’s trashy but intense 1952 romantic film noir melodrama This Woman Is Dangerous, standard Fifties Crawford fare of a hard nut with a […]
Youngblood Hawke *** (1964, James Franciscus, Suzanne Pleshette, Geneviève Page, Eva Gabor, Mary Astor) – Classic Movie Review 6822
James Franciscus stars as American Southern coal truck driver turned writer Arthur ‘Youngblood’ Hawke, who lets fame and the ladies go to his head in New York City, in writer-producer-director Delmer Daves’s 1964 jet set drama […]
Skylark **** (1941, Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Brian Aherne, Binnie Barnes, Walter Abel) – Classic Movie Review 6813
Director Mark Sandrich’s bubbly 1941 romantic comedy stars on-form players Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland and Brian Aherne, and is a vintage delight. [Spoiler alert] Colbert plays Lydia Kenyon, a fed-up wife married to Tony Kenyon […]
Red Sparrow *** (2018, Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Charlotte Rampling, Jeremy Irons, Ciarán Hinds, Joely Richardson) – Movie Review
Jennifer Lawrence holds the screen but is hard stretched to convince as a Russian ballerina turned spy in Red Sparrow. Jennifer Lawrence holds the screen but is hard stretched to convince as Dominika Egorova, a Russian […]
Who’s Got the Action? * (1962, Dean Martin, Lana Turner, Eddie Albert, Walter Matthau, Paul Ford, John McGiver, Jack Albertson, Ned Glass) – Classic Movie Review 6718
Director Daniel Mann’s 1962 comedy stars Dean Martin as Steve Flood, a lawyer who is all too often to be found at the race track, and Lana Turner as his wife Melanie, resorting to devious […]