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Happy Ever After [Tonight’s the Night] **** (1954, David Niven, Yvonne De Carlo, A E Matthews, Michael Shepley, George Cole, Barry Fitzgerald) – Classic Movie Review 11,762

The 1954 Technicolor comedy Happy Ever After finds a vintage British cast hamming it up as devious Irish country bumpkins who plot to get permanently rid of the nasty new local landowner (David Niven).  Director […]

Dec, 02

Diamond Head ** (1962, Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux, George Chakiris, James Darren, France Nuyen, Aline MacMahon) – Classic Movie Review 11,043

The creaky, old-style 1962 drama film Diamond Head is a case of well-meaning, but badly dated and overheated melodramatics in Hawaii, with Charlton Heston over-egging the pudding as a bigoted, bullying Hawaiian landowner. ‘The Giant […]

Mar, 25

Cela S’Appelle l’Aurore [That Is the Dawn] *** (1956, Georges Marchal, Lucia Bosè, Julien Bertheau, Giani Esposito) – Classic Movie Review 10,684

Director Luis Buñuel’s 1956 French-Italian film Cela S’Appelle l’Aurore [That Is the Dawn] is a rather straightforward sentimental love story melodrama with just the odd touch of the moral issues and no surrealism from Buñuel […]

Dec, 19

Jamaica Run ** (1953, Ray Milland, Arlene Dahl, Wendell Corey, Patric Knowles) – Classic Movie Review 9169

Mayhem and murder ensue when there are six rivals for a family estate in writer-director Lewis R Foster’s routine, production-line 1953 Caribbean ocean-going mystery action thriller Jamaica Run. Ray Milland stars as schooner captain Patrick […]

Dec, 18

The Piano **** (1993, Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin, Kerry Walker) – Classic Movie Review 6387

Director Jane Campion’s triumphant 1993 romantic drama is probably her best, most famous, most successful movie. On a $7 million cost, it earned $40 million in the US alone. It won three Oscars, for Best Actress […]

Dec, 10

Joe Kidd **** (1972, Clint Eastwood, Robert Duvall, John Saxon, Don Stroud, Stella Garcia) – Classic Movie Review 6169

Director John Sturges’s 1972 movie, written by Elmore Leonard, shot by Bruce Surtees, produced by Sidney Beckerman and scored by Lalo Schifrin, is an underrated, largely forgotten Clint Eastwood genre Western. Running just 88 minutes, […]

Nov, 01

Under Capricorn **** (1949, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding, Margaret Leighton, Cecil Parker) – Classic Movie Review 452

‘Mystery, murder and passion from the master of suspense’. Yes, the 1949 British historical thriller Under Capricorn is business as usual from Alfred Hitchcock, but with a little bit of a twist. It is not […]

Nov, 26

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