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The Devils **** (1971, Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Dudley Sutton, Max Adrian, Gemma Jones, Murray Melvin, Georgina Hale) – Classic Movie Review 3032

Vanessa Redgrave stars in Ken Russell’s The Devils (1971) as a sexually repressed hunchback nun so obsessed with a priest (Oliver Reed) that she accuses him of witchcraft and says he has possessed her.  Writer-producer-director […]

Nov, 03

The Iron Mask ***** (1929, Douglas Fairbanks Sr, Marguerite De La Motte, Dorothy Revier, Nigel De Brulier, Leon Barry, Stanley J Stanford, Gino Conrado, Belle Bennett) – Classic Movie Review 2322

Producer-writer-star Douglas Fairbanks Sr’s 1929 sequel to his 1921 triumph The Three Musketeers reunites him with several members of the original cast. This marvellous Alexandre Dumas père swashbuckler is virtually the final fling of the […]

Mar, 28

The Three Musketeers ** (1935, Walter Abel, Paul Lukas, Moroni Olson, Onslow Stevens, Nigel de Brulier) – Classic Movie Review 2306

Co-writer/director Rowland V Lee’s flat, unexciting 1935 American movie version of the Alexandre Dumas adventure classic tale is the first sound remake of the 1921 Douglas Fairbanks Sr silent movie masterpiece. The direction is unimaginative, […]

Mar, 23

The Four Musketeers: Milady’s Revenge **** (1974, Michael York, Oliver Reed, Frank Finlay, Richard Chamberlain, Raquel Welch, Faye Dunaway, Charlton Heston, Christopher Lee) – Classic Movie Review 2305

The dashing Michael York returns as the young Musketeer D’Artagnan in the highly entertaining sequel to The Three Musketeers, the concluding 1974 half of Richard Lester’s tongue-in-cheek Alexandre Dumas adaptation, with the whole company of actors […]

Mar, 23

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