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The Raggedy Rawney *** (1987, Bob Hoskins, Dexter Fletcher, Zoë Nathenson, Zoë Wanamaker) – Classic Movie Review 5466

Co-writer/ director Bob Hoskins directs and stars in this 1987 British anti-war film, set in a European country in the midst of a bloody war. It features Dexter Fletcher as an androgynous young soldier called […]

May, 16

Jassy ***½ (1947, Margaret Lockwood, Patricia Roc, Dennis Price, Basil Sydney, Dermot Walsh) – Classic Movie Review 5424

Director Bernard Knowles’s big-budget 1947 British romance Jassy stars Margaret Lockwood, who throws herself eagerly and with gay abandon into the role of the steamy, second-sighted gypsy Jassy Woodroofe, taken in as servant to Nick […]

May, 09

Babes in Toyland ** (1961, Roy Bolger, Tommy Sands, Annette Funicello, Tommy Kirk, Ed Wynn, Kevin Corcoran, Ann Jillian, Gene Sheldon, Henry Calvin) – Classic Movie Review 5222

Director Jack Donohue’s 1961 Walt Disney Productions family fantasy comedy movie is quite cute, sweet and pleasant enough, and has its moments. But, certainly by comparison, it is a largely ineffectual remake of the 1934 Stan Laurel and Laurel Hardy […]

Mar, 31

The Little Minister *** (1934, Katharine Hepburn, John Beal, Alan Hale) – Classic Movie Review 3939

The young Katharine Hepburn exudes sprightly charisma in director Richard Wallace’s 1934 RKO film of J M Barrie’s fanciful novel and play about a staid 19th-century Scots minister called the Reverend Gavin Dishart (John Beal). He […]

Jun, 26

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man *** (1943, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney Jr, Ilona Massey, Patric Knowles, Lionel Atwill, Maria Ouspenskaya) – Classic Movie Review 2771

Or rather The Frankenstein Monster Meets the Wolf Man. Director Roy William Neill’s 1943 horror movie stars Bela Lugosi, who makes his only appearance as the Frankenstein Monster, and Lon Chaney Jr, who returns as […]

Aug, 02

The Man Who Cried ***½ (2000, Christina Ricci, Johnny Depp, Cate Blanchett, Oleg Yankovskiy, John Turturro, Harry Dean Stanton) – Classic Movie Review 2721

Writer-director Sally Potter’s 2000 drama stars Oleg Yankovskiy as a Russian peasant who heads for America, and promises to send for his daughter, Suzie (Christina Ricci). Later, on her way to the US to try […]

Jul, 19

The Hunchback of Notre Dame [Notre-Dame de Paris] *** (1956, Gina Lollobrigida, Anthony Quinn) – Classic Movie Review 2666

Anthony Quinn (as the hunchback Notre Dame Cathedral bellringer Quasimodo) and Gina Lollobrigida (as the gypsy dancing girl Esmeralda whom he silently loves) light up Jean Delannoy’s 1956 French version of the Victor Hugo classic […]

Jul, 05

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