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Of Human Bondage **** (1934, Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Frances Dee, Reginald Owen, Reginald Denny, Reginald Sheffield, Kay Johnson, Alan Hale) – Classic Movie Review 2694
Director John Cromwell’s 1934 romantic drama Of Human Bondage stars the 26-year-old Bette Davis, who after three years in the business finally shoots to stardom as the cold and unfeeling trampy cockney waitress Mildred Rogers, who […]
The Bad Sister *** (1931, Sidney Fox, Conrad Nagel, Humphrey Bogart, Zasu Pitts, Bette Davis, Charles Winninger. Slim Summerville) – Classic Movie Review 2693
Director Hobart Henley’s 1931 drama is fondly recalled as the moment Bette Davis makes her movie début, aged 23, as the good, shy younger sister Laura Madison in this second remake of Booth Tarkington’s 1913 […]
Doctor at Sea *** (1955, Dirk Bogarde, Brigitte Bardot, James Robertson Justice, Maurice Denham, Joan Sims, Brenda de Banzie, Geoffrey Keen, Michael Medwin) – Classic Movie Review 2,690
Dirk Bogarde returns as Dr Simon Sparrow in the 1955 British comedy film Doctor at Sea, with a surprise co-star in French sex symbol Brigitte Bardot, who bounces into his life as the pouting Hélène […]
Love, Rosie *** (2014, Lily Collins, Sam Claflin, Christian Cooke) – Movie Review
Lily Collins and Sam Claflin star as Rosie and Alex, who have been best friends since they were five. So they couldn’t possibly be a right fit in love for one another, could they? Christian Cooke also […]
The Brasher Doubloon [The High Window] **** (1947, George Montgomery, Nancy Guild, Conrad Janis, Florence Bates) – Classic Movie Review 2496
Director John Brahm’s 1947 film noir detective thriller The Brasher Doubloon is smart and intriguing, though, even so, it is probably the least good (apart from Michael Winner’s The Big Sleep) and least well-known (apart […]
The Brain Eaters ** (1958, Ed Nelson, Alan Frost, Joanna Lee, Jack Hill) – Classic Movie Review 2486
Director Bruno VeSota’s silly 1958 tame tingler is more science fiction than horror movie. It rejoices in a mundane plot about hairy alien parasites from the centre of the earth attaching themselves to the backs […]
Mr Holmes ***½ (2015, Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Milo Parker, Frances de la Tour) – Movie Review
With a bit of Gandalf in there, and looking and sounding remarkably like Sir John Gielgud, Ian McKellen has a lot of fun slicing the ham as an aged, retired Sherlock Holmes. The great detective is […]