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Only the Animals [Seules les bêtes] ***½ (2019, Denis Ménochet, Laure Calamy, Damien Bonnard)

Tragedy stalks the French countryside in director Dominik Moll’s 2019 thriller Only the Animals [Seules les bêtes], as Agatha Christie meets Claude Chabrol in an ingenious and engrossing, if highly unlikely yarn. The Christie bit […]

Jun, 26

Marie Antoinette **** (1938, Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley) – Classic Movie Review 9901

Director W S Van Dyke II’s 1938 black and white historical film Marie Antoinette is a lavish, elaborate, years-in-the-making epic from the MGM studio, with Norma Shearer as the French queen Marie Antoinette, who becomes […]

Jun, 13

Scaramouche **** (1952, Stewart Granger, Janet Leigh, Eleanor Parker, Mel Ferrer) – Classic Movie Review 9883

Director George Sidney’s 1952 MGM rip-snorting Technicolor adventure tale Scaramouche is based on the 1921 novel by Rafael Sabatini and has main star Stewart Granger swashing a florid buckle as André-Louis Moreau, who needs to wreak […]

Jun, 09

Red Wedding [Les Noces rouges] ***½ (1973, Stéphane Audran, Michel Piccoli, Claude Piéplu) – Classic Movie Review 9,872

Those cool and distinguished players Stéphane Audran and Michel Piccoli star in writer-director Claude Chabrol’s 1973 Hitchcockian French crime thriller Red Wedding [Les Noces rouges], loosely based on real events. Those cool and distinguished players […]

Jun, 06

So This Is Paris *** (1954, Tony Curtis, Gloria DeHaven, Gene Nelson, Corinne Calvet, Mara Corday, Paul Gilbert) – Classic Movie Review 9774

Director Richard Quine’s vibrant if messy and cheap-looking 1954 Technicolor musical So This Is Paris has a trio of Yankee sailors, Joe, Al and Davy (Tony Curtis, Gene Nelson and Paul Gilbert), on furlough chasing […]

May, 16

The Road to Glory **** (1936, Fredric March, Warner Baxter, Lionel Barrymore, June Lang) – Classic Movie Review 9755

Director Howard Hawks’s impeccably made 1936 war drama The Road to Glory, based on the novel by Roland Dorgeles, follows a division of the French army as they struggle through the horrors of World War […]

May, 12

Mr Topaze *** (1961, Peter Sellers, Nadia Gray, Herbert Lom, Leo McKern) – Classic Movie Review 9517

Peter Sellers directs himself in the 1961 British comedy Mr Topaze, starring in an old role previously played by John Barrymore in Topaze back in 1933, as an upright French school teacher fired when he […]

Mar, 16

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