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Circle of Danger *** (1951, Ray Milland, Patricia Roc, Marius Goring, Naunton Wayne, Hugh Sinclair) – Classic Movie Review 8,271

Jacques Tourneur’s suspenseful 1951 mystery thriller film Circle of Danger stars Ray Milland as a tough American who comes to Britain to investigate his army commando brother’s suspicious death. Director Jacques Tourneur’s suspenseful 1951 mystery […]

Mar, 20

Bulldog Drummond Escapes *** (1937, Ray Milland, Guy Standing, Heather Angel, Reginald Denny, Porter Hall, Fay Holden, E E Clive) – Classic Movie Review 8191

Paramount Pictures’s series of eight B-movies about Sapper’s Captain Hugh ‘Bulldog’ Drummond first stars Ray Milland in Bulldog Drummond Escapes (1937). In the screenplay by Edward T Lowe Jr, based on the play Bulldog Drummond […]

Mar, 02

The Fourth Protocol ** (1987, Michael Caine, Pierce Brosnan, Joanna Cassidy, Ned Beatty) – Classic Movie Review 8170

Director John Mackenzie’s 1987 thriller The Fourth Protocol is based on a novel by Frederick Forsyth, and stars Michael Caine, Pierce Brosnan, Joanna Cassidy and Ned Beatty. Brosnan and Caine play super-smooth spy Valeri Petrofsky […]

Feb, 25

London Suite [Neil Simon’s London Suite] * (1996, Kelsey Grammer, Michael Richards, Julia Louis-Dreyfus) – Classic Movie Review 8021

A very good cast is dreadfully wasted in director Jay Sandrich’s naff, turgid and woeful 1996 comedy London Suite, an adaptation of Neil Simon’s follow-up to his hilarious plays and films California Suite and Plaza […]

Jan, 16

Young Bess *** (1953, Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Charles Laughton, Kathleen Byron, Kay Walsh, Guy Rolfe, Cecil Kellaway) – Classic Movie Review 7424

MGM’s well-crafted 1953 Technicolor historical biopic film Young Bess stars Jean Simmons as the young Queen Elizabeth I, Stewart Granger as her suitor, Charles Laughton as Henry VIII, and Deborah Kerr as Catherine Parr. Director […]

Aug, 10

Tudor Rose [Nine Days a Queen] ** (1936, Nova Pilbeam, Cedric Hardwicke, John Mills, Felix Aylmer) – Classic Movie Review 7092

Director Robert Stevenson’s 1936 Gainsborough Pictures’ historical biopic Tudor Rose is the first film to tell the tragic tale of Lady Jane Grey, England’s queen for nine days in 1553 before she was executed by beheading for […]

May, 25

Made in Heaven *** (1952, David Tomlinson, Petula Clark, Sonja Ziemann, A E Matthews, Charles Victor, Sophie Stewart, Richard Wattis, Athene Seyler Alfie Bass, Dora Bryan, Ferdy Mayne, Moira Lister, Ronnie Stevens) – Classic Movie Review 7083

Director John Paddy Carstairs’s spry though obviously dated 1952 British Technicolor film Made in Heaven is an almost heavenly Fifties comedy about the annual contest in the historic English market town of Dunmow for married couples […]

May, 22

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