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The Moonraker ***½ (1958, George Baker, Sylvia Syms, Marius Goring, Gary Raymond, Peter Arne, John Le Mesurier) – Classic Movie Review 3428

Roll up, roll up for director David MacDonald’s British Technicolor action drama The Moonraker (1958), some tasty Fifties-style high adventure and low intrigue in 17th-century merry England, set in October 1651 after the Battle of […]

Feb, 29

A Summer Place **** (1959, Troy Donahue, Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Sandra Dee, Arthur Kennedy, Beulah Bondi) – Classic Movie Review 3382

Fifties teen heartthrob Troy Donahue (aka Merle Johnson Jr) made his film début in Man Afraid (1957) and became a Warner Bros contract player with the stardom conferred on him here in A Summer Place, […]

Feb, 19

Ossessione [Obsession] ***** (1943, Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, Dhia Cristiani, Juan de Landa) – Classic Movie Review 2,449

Debut director Luchino Visconti’s 1943 Italian crime thriller film Ossessione marks the second time James M Cain’s irresistible plot rang at cinema box offices. Visconti failed to get rights to the novel and the film […]

May, 02

Holiday Inn **** (1942, Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds, Virginia Dale, Walter Abel) – Classic Movie Review 2208

The pairing of Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby and a great batch of Irving Berlin songs, including the debut of the Oscar-winning best song ‘White Christmas’, are the filling in the cake of the 1942 […]

Feb, 23

The Invisible Man ***** (1933, Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan, Henry Travers, E E Clive, Una O’Connor) – Classic Movie Review 778

The Invisible Man (1933) is one of the great Universal horror movies. Claude Rains became an overnight star as scientist Dr Jack Griffin, who invents an invisibility serum and turns himself invisible, but then terrorises […]

Jan, 31

Jamaica Inn *** (1939, Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Hara, Marie Ney, Leslie Banks, Robert Newton, Emlyn Williams) – Classic Movie Review 390

Even if you think of the 1939 pirate malarkey adventure Jamaica Inn as a period whodunit, director Alfred Hitchcock is way off his usual territory with such melodramatic costume drama hokum based Daphne du Maurier’s […]

Nov, 10

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