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The Virginian *** (2000, Bill Pullman, Diane Lane, John Savage, Dennis Weaver, James Drury) – Classic Movie Review 4881

Co-producer/ star Bill Pullman directs himself as rancher hero The Virginian in this stalwart, well-acted fifth filming of the famous classic Owen Wister Western yarn, adapted as a 2000 TV movie by writer Larry Gross. […]

Jan, 12

Let George Do It ***½ (1940, George Formby, Phyllis Calvert, Garry Marsh, Romney Brent, Bernard Lee, Coral Browne, Torin Thatcher) – Classic Movie Review 4874

Director Marcel Varnel’s 1940 British black-and-white comedy musical war film stars George Formby as George Hepplewhite, a daft ukulele playing concert-party member, who mistakes Bergen, Norway, for Blackpool, England. Having taken the wrong boat and […]

Jan, 11

Fabian of the Yard *** (1954, Bruce Seton, Sarah Churchill, Richard Pearson, Gwen Cherrell, Diana Beaumont, Margaret Boyd) – Classic Movie Review 4595

Director Edward Thompson and co-director/ producer Antony Beauchamp’s 1954 British police procedural thriller stars Bruce Seton as the real-life Scotland Yard Superintendent Robert Fabian. Taken from Fabian’s autobiographical book of memoirs, this trio of stories from […]

Nov, 06

Pauline & Paulette **** (2001, Dora van der Groen, Ann Petersen, Rosemarie Bergmans ) – Classic Movie Review 4494

Co-writer/ director Lieven Debrauwer’s 2001 film is a heartrending, life-affirming emotional comedy drama focusing on two Dutch sisters in a family of four sisters. In the lead roles, Dora van der Groen (as the 66-year-old Pauline […]

Oct, 19

Paul Temple’s Triumph *** (1950, John Bentley, Dinah Sheridan, Jack Livesey, Barbara Couper, Hugh Dempster, Dino Galvani, Beatrice Varley, Joseph O’Conor) – Classic Movie Review 4,486

John Bentley and Dinah Sheridan return as the married sleuths on the trail of an international gang of criminals trying to steal atomic secrets, in crime writer Francis Durbridge’s twisty low-budget 1950 British mystery thriller […]

Oct, 18

Paul Temple Returns [Bombay Waterfront] *** (1952, John Bentley, Patricia Dainton, Peter Gawthorne, Valentine Dyall, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Christopher Lee, Robert Urquhart) – Classic Movie Review 4,485

John Bentley again plays novelist-sleuth Paul Temple, who this time investigates a series of gruesome murders by a mysterious serial killer known as The Marquis, in the 1952 British thriller film Paul Temple Returns. John […]

Oct, 18

The 9th Life of Louis Drax ***½ (2016, Jamie Dornan, Aiden Longworth, Sarah Gadon, Molly Parker, Aaron Paul, Barbara Hershey, Oliver Platt) – Movie Review

Jamie Dornan stars as Dr Allan Pascal, who is drawn into the mystery of his coma patient, accident-prone nine-year-old Louis Drax (Aiden Longworth), who has suffered a lifetime of curious mishaps culminating in his near-fatal fall […]

Sep, 07

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