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Great Expectations ***** (1946, John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Tony Wager, Valerie Hobson, Jean Simmons, Bernard Miles, Finlay Currie, Alec Guinness, Martita Hunt, Francis L Sullivan) – Classic Movie Review 843

Director David Lean’s truly great, double Oscar-winning 1946 version of the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations is still the best version on film. It is even perhaps the best Dickens movie ever. The famous story centres on the […]

Feb, 18

Black Narcissus ***** (1947, Deborah Kerr, Jean Simmons, David Farrar, Flora Robson, Kathleen Byron, Sabu) – Classic Movie Review 602

Writer-producer-director Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s extraordinary 1947 film Black Narcissus, about five Anglo-Catholic nuns who have set up a school and infirmary in a ramshackle old building on the edge of a cliff in […]

Dec, 31

Spartacus ***** (1960, Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Peter Ustinov, Tony Curtis, Charles Laughton, John Gavin) – Classic Movie Review 122

‘I am Spartacus.’ Kirk Douglas is on his finest heroic form in the role he’ll always be remembered for as the fighter Spartacus who leads the slaves in a foolhardy attempt at revolt against the […]

Aug, 03

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