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The Last Page [Man Bait] *** (1952, George Brent, Marguerite Chapman, Diana Dors, Raymond Huntley, Peter Reynolds) – Classic Movie Review 11,080

Director Terence Fisher’s 1952 black and white noir crime thriller The Last Page [Man Bait] is an odd but very watchable Hammer Film Productions mystery with a decent, exceptionally friendly cast working had to give […]

Apr, 08

The Seventh Cross *** (1944, Spencer Tracy, Signe Hasso, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Agnes Moorehead, Felix Bressart, George Macready, George Zucco, Steven Geray) – Classic Movie Review 9994

  Director Fred Zinnemann’s 1944 The Seventh Cross in an engrossing, intelligent, studio-bound escape adventure, with the excellent actors fleshing out intriguing characters. Spencer Tracy is at his best as George Heisler, one of seven […]

Jul, 03

The Clandestine Marriage **** (1999, Nigel Hawthorne, Joan Collins, Timothy Spall, Paul Nicholls, Natasha Little, Emma Chambers, Tom Hollander) – Classic Movie Review 6554

An excellent cast makes director Christopher Miles’s 1999 British period film work smoothly, nicely and entertainingly. Thanks to all the good work, it is a very considerable success, and a very successful transfer of a play […]

Jan, 13

Il Posto [The Job] **** (1961, Sandro Panzeri, Loredana Detto, Tullio Kezich, Mara Revel, Guido Spadea) – Classic Movie Review 6158

Writer-director Ermanno Olmi’s 1961 black and white drama film Il Posto [The Job] tells an acute and perceptive story of a poor young Italian man called Domenico (Sandro Panzeri), a college graduate who is in […]

Oct, 30

Scrooge *** (1935, Seymour Hicks, Donald Calthrop, Athene Seyler, Oscar Asche, Barbara Everest, Maurice Evans, Robert Cochran, Mary Glynne, Garry Marsh, Marie Ney, C V France) – Classic Movie Review 4809

British actor-manager Seymour Hicks co-writes the screenplay and plays the old Victorian grouch Ebenezer Scrooge, who has visions of the past, present and future and is terrified enough finally to stop being a miser. Director […]

Dec, 23

The Big Sleep *** (1978, Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Richard Boone, James Stewart, Candy Clark, Joan Collins, Richard Boone, Edward Fox, John Mills, Oliver Reed, Harry Andrews, Richard Todd) – Classic Movie Review 742

Director Michael Winner’s 1978 reworking of Howard Hawks’s 1946 film noir masterpiece The Big Sleep with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall makes the twin cardinal errors of updating the yarn to the Seventies and misplacing […]

Jan, 24

Clerks **** (1994, Brian O’Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Marilyn Ghigliotti) – Classic Movie Review 652

A local convenience store assistant called Dante Hicks (played by Brian O’Halloran) is forced to open up the premises when his colleague fails to arrive, encountering some oddball customers, his girlfriend and Randal Graves (Jeff […]

Jan, 08

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