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Othello **** (1965, Laurence Olivier, Frank Finlay, Maggie Smith, Joyce Redman, Derek Jacobi, Michael Gambon) – Classic Movie Review 3,339

Stage director John Dexter’s legendary acclaimed Chichester Festival and National Theatre of Great Britain production of Othello is plainly transferred to film by director Stuart Burge, but it is nevertheless a compelling experience. It records […]

Feb, 08

Gumshoe **** (1971, Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Frank Finlay, Janice Rule, Carolyn Seymour, Fulton Mackay) – Classic Movie Review 3328

Director Stephen Frears’s excellent 1971 British neo-noir retro-gangster yarn provides a heaven-sent acting opportunity for Albert Finney as Eddie Ginley, a music-hall comedian/ nightclub bingo caller who really wants to be Dashiell Hammett’s legendary fictional […]

Feb, 05

The Deadly Bees * (1966, Suzanna Leigh, Guy Doleman, Frank Finlay) – Classic Movie Review 3098

Director Freddie Francis’s slow and tepid 1966 British horror thriller for Max J Rosenberg and Milton Subotsky’s Amicus productions stars Suzanna Leigh as Vicki Robbins, an exhausted dim and demented pop singer who takes a […]

Nov, 26

The Return of the Musketeers *** (1989, Michael York, Oliver Reed, Frank Finlay) – Classic Movie Review 2321

Director Richard Lester revisits his triumphant successes of 1973 and 1974, The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers, for this belated 1989 sequel that rounds up the original 70s Musketeers (Michael York as D’Artagnan, Oliver […]

Mar, 28

The Four Musketeers: Milady’s Revenge **** (1974, Michael York, Oliver Reed, Frank Finlay, Richard Chamberlain, Raquel Welch, Faye Dunaway, Charlton Heston, Christopher Lee) – Classic Movie Review 2305

The dashing Michael York returns as the young Musketeer D’Artagnan in the highly entertaining sequel to The Three Musketeers, the concluding 1974 half of Richard Lester’s tongue-in-cheek Alexandre Dumas adaptation, with the whole company of actors […]

Mar, 23

The Three Musketeers: The Queen’s Diamonds **** (1973, Michael York, Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain, Faye Dunaway, Christopher Lee, Frank Finlay, Charlton Heston) – Classic Movie Review 2304

Michael York is at his swashbuckling best in The Three Musketeers: The Queen’s Diamonds, as young, would-be Musketeer D’Artagnan, in director Richard Lester’s breathlessly exuberant, delightfully spoofy 1973 account of the Alexandre Dumas adventure classic. […]

Mar, 23

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner **** (1962, Tom Courtenay, Michael Redgrave, James Fox) Classic Movie Review 1648

Producer-director Tony Richardson’s 1962 movie The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner does full just to its source author Alan Sillitoe, who provides a commendably taut screenplay from his own novella about a reform school boy […]

Sep, 07

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