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Posts Tagged "guillotine"
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Two on a Guillotine *** (1965, Connie Stevens, Dean Jones, Cesar Romero) – Classic Movie Review 12,251
‘Two on a Guillotine – or 7 nights in a house of terror – or the unkindest cut of all.’ Producer/ director William Conrad’s 1965 Warner Bros American horror film Two on a Guillotine stars […]
Monsieur Beaucaire *** (1946, Bob Hope, Joan Caulfield, Patric Knowles) – Classic Movie Review 11,154
Paramount Pictures’ entertaining 1946 black and white comedy adventure Monsieur Beaucaire stars Bob Hope as the title French court barber involved in politics at the time of King Louis XV. Director George Marshall’s 1946 Paramount […]
A Tale of Two Cities ***** (1935, Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan, Edna May Oliver, Basil Rathbone) – Classic Movie Review 6936
Director Jack Conway’s 1935 historical romantic drama A Tale of Two Cities stars an ideally cast Ronald Colman, who is noble and stirring as alcoholic English lawyer Sydney Carton, who sacrifices himself to save his former […]
The Elusive Pimpernel [The Fighting Pimpernel] *** (1950, David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Cyril Cusack, Jack Hawkins) – Classic Movie Review 5,503
David Niven makes an affable if not inspired Scarlet Pimpernel (aka British aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney) in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s costly, colourful 1950 film The Elusive Pimpernel. David Niven makes an affable if […]
Orphans of the Storm ***** (1921, Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Joseph Schildkraut, Lucille La Verne) – Classic Movie Review 5218
Writer-producer-director D W Griffith’s 1921 big-budget ($1,000,000) historical romantic drama, based on the 1874 French play Les Deux Orphelines by Adolphe d’Ennery and Eugène Cormon, is the last of his series of really great silent epic films and […]
Uncertain Glory ** (1944, Errol Flynn, Paul Lukas, Jean Sullivan, Lucile Watson, Douglass Dumbrille, Faye Emerson, Dennis Hoey) – Classic Movie Review 4755
Director Raoul Walsh’s 1944 spirit-raising (i e wartime propaganda) romantic adventure drama Uncertain Glory stars Errol Flynn as Jean Picard, a womanising French criminal who flees the guillotine during an air raid in World War Two […]
La Machine **** (1977, Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Sonia Saviange, Monique Mélinand) – Classic Movie Review 3633
French film-maker and author Paul Vecchiali died in Paris on 18 January 2023, aged 92. He notably directed La Machine (1977), a passionate attack on capital punishment, starring Jean-Christophe Bouvet. Jean-Christophe Bouvet has his first […]