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Forbidden *** (1949, Douglass Montgomery, Hazel Court, Patricia Burke) – Classic Movie Review 12,233

Douglass Montgomery stars with Hazel Court and Patricia Burke in the 1949 British black and white melodrama thriller film Forbidden [Scarlet Heaven]. Set in Blackpool, though filmed almost entirely in the studio, it is produced […]

Jul, 16

This Is My Love **** (1954, Linda Darnell, Faith Domergue, Dan Duryea, Rick Jason, Hal Baylor) – Classic Movie Review 10,910

‘What Was The Dark Menace That Shadowed This Woman’s Life? It Dragged Her To The Brink Of Unhappiness and Despair’. Director Stuart Heisler’s 1954 Pathécolor melodrama This Is My Love stars Linda Darnell, Faith Domergue […]

Feb, 13

In Name Only *** (1939, Cary Grant, Carole Lombard, Kay Francis, Charles Coburn, Helen Vinson) – Classic Movie Review 6155

Director John Cromwell’s 1939 drama stars Cary Grant as rich Alec Walker who falls for a young widowed artist, single mother Julie Eden (Carole Lombard), but there is one snag. His venomous, gold digging wife Maida […]

Oct, 30

From the Terrace **** (1960, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Myrna Loy, Leon Ames, Ina Balin, Felix Aylmer) – Classic Movie Review 6095

Producer-director Mark Robson’s 1960 drama has the inestimable advantage of starring Paul Newman and his real-life wife Joanne Woodward, whom he married on 29 January 1958. This fascinating film of John O’Hara’s mammoth, steamy novel is slightly […]

Oct, 14

Days of Heaven ***** (1978, Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard) – Classic Movie Review 2995

Writer-director Terrence Malick’s second movie after his impressive debut with Badlands in 1973 is this startlingly and spectacularly beautiful 1978 movie focusing on a ménage à trois love story set among the wheatfields of the […]

Oct, 18

Mr Skeffington ***** (1944, Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel, Richard Waring) – Classic Movie Review 2700

The 1944 American drama film Mr Skeffington stars Bette Davis as a selfish, vain and bitchy woman who marries Jewish financier Job Skeffington (Claude Rains) only to save her brother from going to prison. Director […]

Jul, 14

In Secret *** (2013, Elizabeth Olsen, Oscar Isaac, Jessica Lange, Tom Felton) – Movie Review

Elizabeth Olsen stars in this intense, well-acted film of Emile Zola’s 1867 tragic romance as the sexually repressed beautiful young tragic heroine Therese Raquin. Jessica Lange co-stars as her domineering aunt Madame Raquin, who traps into a loveless […]

May, 13

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