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The History of Mr Polly **** (1949, John Mills, Sally Ann Howes, Megs Jenkins, Finlay Currie, Betty Ann Davies, Edward Chapman, Diana Churchill, Gladys Henson, Miles Malleson) – Classic Movie Review 8544

H G Wells’s comic novel The History of Mr Polly is effectively and brightly brought to the screen in 1948 with a witty screenplay by writer-director Anthony Pelissier and one of John Mills’s best performances […]

Jun, 03

Joseph Andrews ** (1977, Ann-Margret, Peter Firth, Michael Hordern, Beryl Reid, Jim Dale, Peter Bull, John Gielgud, Hugh Griffith) – Classic Movie Review 8331

Director Tony Richardson re-enters Tom Jones country (the scene of his 1963 movie triumph) for this romping and rollicking farcical tale of a lusty servant Joseph Andrews (Peter Firth) in the 18th century. Ann-Margret stars […]

Apr, 03

The Devil’s Brother [Fra Diavolo] **** (1933, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dennis King) – Classic Movie Review 7365

Directors Hal Roach and Charles [Charley] Rogers’s 1933 comedy The Devil’s Brother [Fra Diavolo] is Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy’s first and perhaps best operetta send-up (in this case of Daniel F Auber’s 1830 comic […]

Jul, 29

The Gorgeous Hussy ** (1936, Joan Crawford, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Franchot Tone, Melvyn Douglas, James Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 6339

Director Clarence Brown’s shaky 1936 historical drama is notable for the romantic teaming of two of MGM’s finest, Joan Crawford and Robert Taylor, as hussy innkeeper’s daughter Peggy O’Neal Eaton and the US navy lieutenant she […]

Dec, 01

Les Misérables ★★★½ (2012, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Sacha Baron Cohen, Helena Bonham Carter, Eddie Redmayne) – Classic Movie Review 3786

  In this brilliantly produced, visually stunning, astonishingly lavish movie of the incredibly long-running stage hit, a hugely impressive Hugh Jackman sings his big Aussie heart out as a saintly French sinner, Jean Valjean, jailed […]

May, 29

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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