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The Guinea Pig [The Outsider] *** (1948, Richard Attenborough, Sheila Sim, Bernard Miles, Robert Flemyng, Cecil Trouncer, Joan Hickson) – Classic Movie Review 7285

Director Roy Boulting’s entertaining 1948 class drama The Guinea Pig (re-titled The Outsider in America) stars Richard Attenborough as 14-year-old Jack Read, the working-class son of London tobacconists Bernard Miles and Joan Hickson, who gets a […]

Jul, 12

Play Dirty **** (1969, Michael Caine, Nigel Davenport, Nigel Green, Harry Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 6838

Director André de Toth’s last movie is Play Dirty from 1969 and it stars Michael Caine as the British captain in charge of a gang of ex-con soldiers who must obliterate Nazi oil supplies deep […]

Mar, 21

Tobruk *** (1967, Rock Hudson, George Peppard, Nigel Green, Guy Stockwell, Jack Watson) – Classic Movie Review 6447

Director Arthur Hiller’s exciting big-budget 1967 World War Two war drama stars George Peppard as German-Jewish Captain Kurt Bergman joining forces with freed Canadian POW Major Donald Craig (Rock Hudson) and British commander Colonel John […]

Dec, 21

White Cargo *** (1942, Hedy Lamarr, Walter Pidgeon, Richard Carlson, Frank Morgan, Bramwell Fletcher, Richard Ainley, Reginald Owen, Henry O’Neill) – Classic Movie Review 6299

Director Richard Thorpe’s 1942 MGM film is a daft, but endearingly simple-minded old-style romantic adventure drama movie of love-hate triangle goings-on in the jungle, with Leon Gordon adapting his own play from 1923. Walter Pidgeon stars […]

Nov, 24

When Eight Bells Toll ** (1971, Anthony Hopkins, Jack Hawkins, Robert Morley, Corin Redgrave, Nathalie Delon, Ferdy Mayne, Derek Bond) – Classic Movie Review 6256

Director Etienne Perier’s 1971 British adventure is a goodish Boy’s Own action thriller, taken from an Alistair MacLean novel, in which an excellent cast, boats and gold bullion figure against a backdrop of eye-catching Scottish […]

Nov, 15

The Long Dark Hall ** (1951, Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer, Raymond Huntley, Denis O’Dea, Anthony Bushell) – Classic Movie Review 6140

Rex Harrison stars as Arthur Groome, the unfaithful Richmond, London, husband, charged with murdering his showgirl plaything (Patricia Wayne), in directors Anthony Bushell and Reginald Beck’s ordinary, unconvincing 1951 British mystery and suspense crime thriller […]

Oct, 24

Stratton * (2017, Dominic Cooper, Connie Nielsen, Tyler Hoechlin, Tom Felton, Derek Jacobi) – Movie Review

There is nothing good to say about director Simon West’s espionage action thriller Stratton (2017), lamely and limply based on the book series written by Duncan Falconer. Dominic Cooper took over at the last minute from Henry Cavill as […]

Sep, 08

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