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Surprise Package ** (1960, Yul Brynner, Mitzi Gaynor, Noël Coward) – Classic Movie Review 10,771

Producer-director Stanley Donen’s 1960 British film Surprise Package is an off-the-wall comedy set on a Greek semi-tropical island, which is home to both a New York hoodlum, Nico March (Yul Brynner) and a European royal […]

Jan, 09

The Magus * (1968, Anthony Quinn, Michael Caine, Candice Bergen, Anna Karina) – Classic Movie Review 9546

Michael Caine, Anthony Quinn, Candice Bergen and Anna Karina are in trouble in director Guy Green’s murky, muddled and meandering 1968 film of the then in-vogue John Fowles novel The Magus. As screenwriter, Fowles just […]

Mar, 22

Mediterraneo **** (1991, Diego Abatantuono, Claudio Bigagli, Giuseppe Cederna, Claudio Bisio, Gigio Alberti, Ugo Conti) – Classic Movie Review 3087

Director Gabriele Salvatores’s charming, easy-going 1991 Italian movie, dedicated to ‘all those who are running away’, is a highly appealing piece of film-making that won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 1992. Based on […]

Nov, 24

Isle of the Dead **** (1945, Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer) – Classic Movie Review 2673

Boris Karloff stars in director Mark Robson’s wild, haunting 1945 Val Lewton-produced chiller, set in 1912 on a Greek island marooned by war and bedevilled by plague and maybe demon vampires. Martin Scorsese places it on his list […]

Jul, 06

The Guns of Navarone ***** (1961, Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn) – Classic Movie Review 1397

Three cheers for director J Lee Thompson’s famous, stirring, classic 1961 World War Two action/adventure war thriller, based on Alistair MacLean’s 1957 bestselling novel. It follows the fortunes of a team of Allied commando fighters sent to […]

Jul, 05

Mamma Mia! **** (2008, Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Amanda Seyfried, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård, Julie Walters) – Classic Movie Review 532

Director Phyllida Lloyd turns in an infectiously exuberant movie of the fABBAlous British stage musical in 2008. Anyone simply wondering what all the fuss is about or who cares little for the music of ABBA doesn’t […]

Dec, 16

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