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Sebastian *** (1968, Dirk Bogarde, Susannah York, John Gielgud, Lilli Palmer, Nigel Davenport) – Classic Movie Review 8714

Director David Greene’s intriguing 1968 British film Sebastian [Mr Sebastian] stars Dirk Bogarde, who gives a polished, assured performance as the Oxford mathematician don of the title, along with Susannah York, who is lively and […]

Jul, 15

Q Planes [Clouds Over Europe] **** (1939, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Valerie Hobson, George Merritt, George Curzon) -Classic Movie Review 8,072

Directors Tim Whelan and Arthur B Woods’s 1939 British black and white spy comedy thriller film Q Planes [Clouds Over Europe] is stylish, pacy vintage entertainment from the Alexander Korda London Films studios empire, with […]

Jan, 28

The Quiller Memorandum **** (1966, George Segal, Max von Sydow, Alec Guinness, Senta Berger, George Sanders, Robert Helpmann) – Classic Movie Review 5129

Director Michael Anderson’s excellent, engrossing and exciting 1966 British espionage thriller The Quiller Memorandum stars George Segal as American spy Quiller, who is sent to West Berlin by the British Secret Service to investigate a […]

Mar, 10

Our Kind of Traitor ***½ (2016, Ewan McGregor, Damian Lewis, Naomie Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Jeremy Northam) – Movie Review

Ewan McGregor and Naomie Harris star as a weary long-term British couple, Perry Makepeace and Gail Perkins, who go on a rekindling romance-type holiday in Marrakech and meet dodgy Russian Dima (Stellan Skarsgård). Dima asks Perry to party with him and challenges him to […]

May, 13

Our Man in Havana **** (1959, Alec Guinness, Noël Coward, Maureen O’Hara, Burl Ives) – Classic Movie Review 1808

Director Carol Reed’s 1959 thriller finds the ideal fit in Alec Guinness, who is perfectly cast as Jim Wormold, the meek vacuum cleaner salesman in Havana, in this delightful film of one of Graham Greene’s […]

Nov, 05

From Russia with Love ***** (1963, Sean Connery, Robert Shaw, Lotte Lenya, Daniela Bianchi, Pedro Armendáriz, Eunice Gayson, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewelyn) – Classic Movie Review 402

‘Meet James Bond. His new incredible women. His new incredible enemies. His new incredible adventures.’ Following the huge success of Dr No in 1962, the second 007 spy film From Russia with Love is more […]

Nov, 14

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