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The Merry Widow **** (1925, Mae Murray, John Gilbert, Roy D’Arcy, Tully Marshall, Josephine Crowell, George Fawcett, Edward Connelly) – Classic Movie Review 5809

Co-writer/ director Erich von Stroheim 1925 silent MGM version of the famous Franz Lehar operetta Die Lustige Witwe is hugely successful and was a huge success. The wayward maverick director encourages Mae Murray’s classiest performance […]

Jul, 24

Mary Reilly * (1996, Julia Roberts, John Malkovich, George Cole, Michael Gambon, Kathy Staff, Michael Sheen, Glenn Close, Ciarân Hinds) – Classic Movie Review 2787

Much was expected from this strongly cast film of Valerie Martin’s popular novel, but director Stephen Frears’s 1996 British drama is one of his failures. The idea of seeing the old Victorian horror story through […]

Aug, 07

Cocktail ** (1988, Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown, Elisabeth Shue) – Classic Movie Review 2057

Director Roger Donaldson’s hollow, vacant and fakely concocted 1988 American romantic drama Cocktail is not a good movie. But it is a glossy, good-looking, entertaining one, acceptable, even enjoyable, as a guilty pleasure. It won two […]

Jan, 08

Shallow Hal *** (2001, Jack Black, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jason Alexander, Joe Viterelli, Rene Kirby, Bruce McGill) – Classic Movie Review 1060

The funny Jack Black stars as Hal, who is obsessed with physical perfection and dates only gorgeous dames until a self-help guru hypnotises him into seeing inner beauty. He meets an obese, 300 pound woman – […]

Apr, 05

The End of the Affair **** (1955, Deborah Kerr, Van Johnson, John Mills) – Classic Movie Review 832

Director Edward Dmytryk makes the mistake of turning one of Graham Greene’s finest novels into a conventional Hollywood-ised romantic potboiler. Ideally cast Deborah Kerr is excellent as the wartime wife Sarah Miles who suffers Roman […]

Feb, 15

Roman Holiday ***** (1953, Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn) – Classic Movie Review 44

This delicious 1953 triple-Oscar-winning confection, restored and reissued for its 60th anniversary in 2013, stars Gregory Peck but now is better known as a beloved Audrey Hepburn classic. She’s credited after the title as ‘introducing […]

Jul, 12

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