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Ship of Fools **** (1965, Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, Oskar Werner, Lee Marvin, José Ferrer, George Segal) – Classic Movie Review 5124
Producer-director Stanley Kramer’s grand, double Oscar-winning 1965 movie soap opera Ship of Fools is set aboard a second-rate German ocean liner sailing the Atlantic from Veracruz, Mexico, to Bremerhaven, Germany, in 1933. The liner may […]
The Lost World ** (1992, David Warner, John Rhys-Davies, Eric McCormack) – Classic Movie Review 5123
Timothy Bond directs a tolerable but undistinguished 1992 Canadian third film version of The Lost World, with David Warner, John Rhys-Davies and Eric McCormack, plus location filming in Zimbabwe. Rhys-Davies is well cast as Professor […]
The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone **** (1961, Vivien Leigh, Warren Beatty, Lotte Lenya, Jeremy Spenser, Coral Browne, Ernest Thesiger, Cleo Laine, Jill St John) – Classic Movie Review 5117
Director Jose Quintero’s 1961 romantic drama is a highly intriguing film version of Tennessee Williams’s only novel, with Vivien Leigh enjoying herself as Mrs Stone, an ageing American actress staying in a magnificent apartment in Rome, […]
Mr North *** (1988, Anthony Edwards, Anjelica Huston, Robert Mitchum, Lauren Bacall, Harry Dean Stanton) – Classic Movie Review 5116
Miracles, magic and mayhem are on the menu for Danny Huston’s 1988 film version of Thornton Wilder’s novel Theophilus North, which he crafts into a charming, amiable and likeable entertainment. Anthony Edwards stars as Mr […]
The Adventures of Pinocchio *** (1996, Martin Landau, Udo Keir, Geneviève Bujold, voice of Jonathan Taylor Thomas) – Classic Movie Review 5079
Despite some wooden scripting, director Steve Barron’s 1996 children’s movie The Adventures of Pinocchio is still an enchanting live-action version of Italian author Carlo Collodi’s beloved classic book for kids. Martin Landau is captivating as […]
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk ** (2016, Joe Alwyn, Garrett Hedlund, Arturo Castro, Vin Diesel, Kristen Stewart, Chris Tucker, Steve Martin) – Movie Review
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk is a likeable, well-meaning and honourable movie. But, meticulously made and interesting though it is, it must count as a talky semi-failure of a film from Ang Lee, his first […]
The White King *** (2016, Agyness Deyn, Lorenzo Allchurch, Ross Partridge, Jonathan Pryce, Fiona Shaw, Greta Scacchi) – Movie Review
Lorenzo Allchurch plays carefree 12-year-old boy Djata, growing up in an East European countryside commune under a brutal fictitious near-future dictatorship that seizes and imprisons his father (Ross Partridge). Djata and his mother (Agyness Deyn) are branded traitors, but […]