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- Whispering Smith Hits London [Whispering Smith vs Scotland Yard] ** (1952, Richard Carlson, Greta Gynt, Herbert Lom, Rona Anderson, Alan Wheatley, Dora Bryan, Reginald Beckwith, Stanley Baker, Danny Green) – Classic Movie Review 12,886
- Miss MacTaggart Won’t Lie Down *** (1966, Barbara Mullen, Eric Woodburn, Andrew Downie) – Classic Movie Review 12,885
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Waltz of the Toreadors ** (1962, Peter Sellers, Dany Robin, John Fraser, Cyril Cusack, Margaret Leighton) – Classic Movie Review 7434
Jean Anouilh’s French farce Waltz of the Toreadors is filmed in Britain in 1962 by director John Guillermin as a vehicle for Peter Sellers playing a lecherous old general, Gen Leo Fitzjohn, who retires to his Sussex […]
From the Earth to the Moon * (1958, Joseph Cotten, George Sanders, Debra Paget, Henry Daniell, Carl Esmond, Melville Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 7413
Director Byron Haskin’s 1958 From the Earth to the Moon is a pathetic attempt to film the Jules Verne sci-fi fantasy adventure novels De la Terre à la Lune (1865) and Autour de la Lune […]
Madame Bovary *** (1937, Pola Negri, Aribert Wäscher, Ferdinand Marian) – Classic Movie Review 7346
Director Gerhard Lamprecht’s 1937 German version of Gustave Flaubert’s 1857 novel of Madame Bovary is heavy handed but intriguing, involving and well crafted. The iconic Polish silent movie star Pola Negri (1897–1987) makes an attractive […]
A Little Romance *** (1979, Laurence Olivier, Diane Lane, Thelonious Bernard ) – Classic Movie Review 6985
Director George Roy Hill’s sweet and entertaining 1979 romantic comedy movie stars Laurence Olivier as Julius, an old storytelling pickpocket who befriends a couple of teenage brats and gets them to run away with him […]
People Will Talk **** (1951, Cary Grant, Jeanne Crain, Hume Cronyn, Walter Slezak, Finlay Currie, Sidney Blackmer) – Classic Movie Review 6891
Cary Grant stars in the 1951 romantic comedy drama People Will Talk as a crusading doctor (Dr Noah Praetorius) battling a jealous anatomist Professor Elwell (Hume Cronyn) and falling in love with young intern Deborah […]
Arch of Triumph ** (1948, Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Charles Laughton) – Classic Movie Review 6696
Co-writer/ producer/ director Lewis Milestone’s stodgy 1948 romantic war drama stars the incomparable Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer, who are up to their pretty necks in a chunk of turgid, overblown heavyweight romantic melodrama based […]
The 13th Letter *** (1951, Linda Darnell, Charles Boyer, Michael Rennie, Constance Smith, Françoise Rosay) – Classic Movie Review 6643
What Otto Preminger’s 1951 film noir mystery thriller The 13th Letter lacks in subtlety, it makes up for in style. What producer-director Otto Preminger’s 1951 film noir mystery thriller remake of Henri-Georges Clouseau’s 1943 French […]