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A Monkey in Winter [Un singe en hiver] [It’s Hot in Hell] *** (1962, Jean Gabin, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Suzanne Flon, Gabrielle Dorziat) – Classic Movie Review 9692

Jean Gabin plays Albert Quentin, an elderly boozer trying to forget an old flame, and Jean-Paul Belmondo plays Gabriel Fouquet, a young drunkard visiting his young daughter, who hit the bottle together in a Normandy […]

Apr, 30

Berlin Alexanderplatz ***** (1980, Günter Lamprecht, Claus Holm, Hanna Schygulla, Gottfried John, Barbara Sukowa) – Classic Movie Review 6205

Writer-director Rainer Werner Fassbinder remakes Phil Jutzi’s German classic movie of 1931 and comes up with a towering monument of film-making in an inspired attempt to capture the entire essence of Alfred Döblin’s novel in […]

Nov, 07

Tales of Terror *** (1962, Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone, Debra Paget, Maggie Pierce, Leona Gage) – Classic Movie Review 2848

Vincent Price stars in three Edgar Allan Poe tales, retold by director Roger Corman in 1962 in his own stylish, baroque gothic horror way. Price also introduced all three sequences, which took just three weeks to film. It […]

Aug, 24

Easy Virtue *** (1928, Isabel Jeans, Franklin Dyall, Eric Bransby Williams, Robin Irvine, Ian Hunter) – Classic Movie Review 2287

‘Virtue is its own reward’ they say — but ‘easy virtue’ is society’s reward for a slandered reputation. Director Alfred Hitchcock’s 1928 romantic film is a rather unsatisfactory silent movie of Noël Coward’s interesting 1924 […]

Mar, 20

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