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The Angry Silence **** (1960, Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli, Michael Craig, Bernard Lee, Alfred Burke) – Classic Movie Review 2111

Director Guy Green’s 1960 drama The Angry Silence is a refreshingly bracing, grown-up and engrossing thought piece that finds the 1960 British cinema in a surprisingly serious frame of mind in a story that tackles […]

Jan, 24

The Fallen Idol ***** (1948, Ralph Richardson, Bobby Henrey, Michèle Morgan, Sonia Dresdel) – Classic Movie Review 1835

Producer-director Carol Reed’s 1948 British classic is one of his most glittering achievements, made between Odd Man Out and The Third Man. Reed eagerly grabs hold of Graham Greene’s script, about a butler working in the French Embassy […]

Nov, 12

Sailor of the King *** (1953, Jeffrey Hunter, Michael Rennie, Wendy Hiller, Bernard Lee, Peter Van Eyck, Victor Maddern) – Classic Movie Review 1645

Director Roy Boulting’s 1953 Second World War-set Royal Navy yarn Sailor of the King, cut from the same cloth as a thousand other wartime adventures, spins the proficient tale of eager young rookie Signalman Brown […]

Sep, 07

The Blue Lamp **** (1949, Dirk Bogarde, Jack Warner, Jimmy Hanley, Robert Flemyng, Bernard Lee, Bruce Seton, Clive Morton, Gladys Henson, Dora Bryan, Tessie O’Shea, Patric Doonan, Peggy Evans, Basil Radford, Glynis Johns) – Classic Movie Review 1255

Director Basil Dearden’s 1949 Ealing Studios film classic was incredibly popular in the UK in 1950, seen by 13,300,000 just in Britain that year. It started a whole new kind of realist cinema in the […]

May, 26

You Only Live Twice **** (1967, Sean Connery, Donald Pleasence, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewelyn, Karin Dor) – Classic Movie Review 1025

Director Lewis Gilbert’s spectacular 1967 spy adventure You Only Live Twice is the fifth Bond movie. It boasts the astounding Japanese volcano that opens up to reveal an underground space station and has 007 Sean […]

Mar, 31

For Your Eyes Only **** (1981, Roger Moore, Carole Bouquet, Topol, Julian Glover) – Classic Movie Review 1024

The 1981 spy film For Your Eyes Only is James Bond movie number 12, with Roger Moore happily back, a spunky heroine in Carole Bouquet as Melina Havelock, and Chaim Topol and Julian Glover oddly […]

Mar, 30

Diamonds Are Forever **** (1971, Sean Connery, Jill St John, Charles Gray, Lana Wood, Bernard Lee, Desmond Llewelyn, Lois Maxwell) – Classic Movie Review 953

Lana Wood: ‘I’m Plenty.’ Sean Connery: ‘I bet you are.’ Wood: ‘Plenty O’Toole.’ Connery: ’Named after your father?’ The 1971 spy thriller Diamonds Are Forever finds Sean Connery enjoying his sixth James Bond movie. Lana […]

Mar, 21

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