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Posts Tagged "Joseph Losey"

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The Boy with Green Hair **** (1948, Dean Stockwell, Pat O’Brien, Robert Ryan, Barbara Hale, Samuel S Hinds, Walter Catlett, Regis Toomey, Russ Tamblyn) – Classic Movie Review 4025

Director Joseph Losey’s heartwarming and intelligent 1948 parable story about being different and an outcast showcases a lovely winning performance from 12-year-old little Dean Stockwell as war orphan Peter Frye. Peter is a typical American kid who is […]

Jul, 15

The Sleeping Tiger *** (1954, Dirk Bogarde, Alexis Smith, Alexander Knox, Hugh Griffith, Maxine Audley, Glyn Houston, Billie Whitelaw) – Classic Movie Review 4024

Director Joseph Losey’s 1954 British thriller The Sleeping Tiger stars Dirk Bogarde, who finds unlikely casting as Frank Clemmons, a cocky young thug brought by fate to the home of psychiatrist Dr Clive Esmond (Alexander […]

Jul, 15

King and Country **** (1964, Dirk Bogarde, Tom Courtenay, Leo McKern, Barry Foster) – Classic Movie Review 2532

Director Joseph Losey’s 1964 film stars Tom Courtenay as Private Hamp, a slightly dim, uncomprehending First World War soldier who walks shell shocked away from the rat-infested Passchendaele trenches and is arrested for desertion. [Spoiler […]

May, 28

Modesty Blaise *** (1966, Monica Vitti, Terence Stamp, Dirk Bogarde, Clive Revill) – Classic Movie Review 2,267

Sixties iconic beautiful people Monica Vitti as comic book heroine Modesty Blaise and Terence Stamp as her sidekick Willie Garvin are effective and amusing, though outshone by outrageously camp turns from Dirk Bogarde and Clive […]

Mar, 15

The Damned [These Are the Damned] ***½ (1963, Macdonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field, Viveca Lindfors, Oliver Reed, Alexander Knox, Walter Gotell) – Classic Movie Review 2231

Director Joseph Losey’s neglected 1963 Hammer horror movie The Damned is a weird, unsettling, imaginative and strangely compelling experience. Losey mixes movie genres from biker melodrama via teen romance to sci-fi with seemingly reckless abandon […]

Mar, 02

Accident ***** (1967, Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Michael York, Jacqueline Sassard) – Classic Movie Review 1,768

Dirk Bogarde is on his finest form, ideally cast as an Oxford University professor having a mid-life crisis, in Joseph Losey’s 1967 British drama film Accident. Filmed in the summer of 1966 and released in […]

Oct, 14

The Prowler **** (1951, Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes, John Maxwell, Katherine Warren, Emerson Treacy) – Classic Movie Review 1,311

Joseph Losey delivers a tense, grippingly performed, dark-toned thriller in the 1951 film noir The Prowler, starring Van Heflin and Evelyn Keyes. Director Joseph Losey delivers a tense, grippingly performed, dark-toned thriller with plenty of […]

Jun, 09

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