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The War Lord *** (1965, Charlton Heston, Richard Boone, Rosemary Forsyth, Maurice Evans, Guy Stockwell, Niall MacGinnis, James Farentino, Henry Wilcoxon) – Classic Movie Review 6484
Director Franklin J Schaffner’s 1965 historical drama film stars Charlton Heston, who plays Chrysagon, a medieval knight who starts trouble by trying to activate an old law of droit de seigneur in 11th-century Normandy. This […]
Duet for One ** (1986, Julie Andrews, Alan Bates, Max von Sydow, Rupert Everett, Liam Neeson) – Classic Movie Review 6473
Tom Kempinski’s hit play about the violinist struck down by multiple sclerosis makes only a half-successful film in 1986. The half success is the story itself and Julie Andrews’s surprisingly acute performance in the main […]
Come Blow Your Horn *** (1963, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bill, Lee J Cobb, Molly Picon) – Classic Movie Review 6454
Director Bud Yorkin’s 1962 comedy stars Frank Sinatra as Alan Baker, a bachelor who finds his swinging lover lifestyle is cramped when his little brother Buddy (Tony Bill, in his début) tries to emulate it. […]
The Girl Who Had Everything ** (1953, Elizabeth Taylor, Fernando Lamas, William Powell) – Classic Movie Review 6419
Fiery Elizabeth Taylor stars as Jean Latimer, who upsets her attorney father Steve Latimer (William Powell) when she romances his gangster client Victor Y Raimondi (Fernando Lamas), in director Richard Thorpe’s routinely competent 1953 crime soap. […]
Tonight or Never *** (1931, Gloria Swanson, Melvyn Douglas, Boris Karloff) – Classic Movie Review 6292
Gloria Swanson plays passionless Hungarian prima donna opera singer Nella Vargo singing Tosca in Venice, where she falls for an Italian playboy who is really Jim Fletcher (Melvyn Douglas) an opera producer for the prestigious Metropolitan Opera in New York, in a […]
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds **** (1972, Joanne Woodward, Nell Potts, Roberta Wallach) – Classic Movie Review 6182
Director Paul Newman provides a whacking great role for his wife Joanne Woodward in his 1972 film of Paul Zindel’s Pulitzer-prize play, adapted for the screen by writer Alvin Sargent. It is a little known […]
Edward, My Son **** (1949, Spencer Tracy, Deborah Kerr, Ian Hunter) – Classic Movie Review 6167
Director George Cukor’s compelling, well-acted 1949 film version of Robert Morley and Noel Langley’s Broadway stage play teams Spencer Tracy and Deborah Kerr, who was Oscar nominated as Best Actress for the first of six times. […]