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Beauty and the Beast ***** (1991, voices of Paige O’Hara, Robby Benson, Angela Lansbury, Jerry Orbach, Richard White) – Classic Movie Review 2216

Directors Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise’s 1991 animated feature is a milestone as the Walt Disney studio’s 30th cartoon and happily it proves among the best of its kind. It is an exhilarating movie, an outstanding, […]

Feb, 27

The King and I **** (1956, Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr, Rita Moreno) – Classic Movie Review 2193

Director Walter Lang’s much loved five-Oscar-winning 1956 film of the Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics) all-time great stage triumph, based on Margaret Landon’s book Anna and the King of Siam, is hugely […]

Feb, 20

Carousel ***** (1956, Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Cameron Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 2,192

The vivacious vintage 1956 musical film Carousel stars Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones, who act and sing their socks off as the layabout carnival barker Billy Bigelow and Julie Jordan, the shy young woman he […]

Feb, 19

South Pacific ***** (1958, Mitzi Gaynor, Rossano Brazzi, John Kerr, France Nuyen, Juanita Hall, Ray Walston) – Classic Movie Review 2,181

South Pacific (1958) is graced with an ultra-charismatic performance by Mitzi Gaynor in her finest screen role as a young American nurse who falls for a mature French plantation owner on a South Pacific island […]

Feb, 19

South Pacific *** (2001, Glenn Close, Harry Connick Jr, Rade Serbedzija) – Classic Movie Review 2182

Director Richard Pearce’s 2001 TV movie remake of the 1958 big-screen favourite is bright, tuneful, well made and handsomely produced, as Richard Rodgers’ and Oscar Hammerstein II’s classic 1949 Broadway musical comes to the small screen […]

Feb, 19

Fury ***** (1936, Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot, Edward Ellism Walter Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 2190

Co-writer/director Fritz Lang’s outstanding 1936 American drama film Fury finds Spencer Tracy on his most blistering form in this forceful, continuingly relevant attack on small-town mob violence. Lang’s American début provided an instant movie classic. He had […]

Feb, 18

Relative Values ***½ (2000, Julie Andrews, Edward Atterton, William Baldwin, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Colin Firth, Stephen Fry) – Classic Movie Review 2186

Director Eric Styles’s crisp and amusing 2000 movie version of the vintage play by Noël Coward is a small civilised pleasure. Paul Rattigan and Michael Walker adapt the Master’s work, keeping his wit intact. It […]

Feb, 18

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