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Oh! What a Lovely War **** (1969, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud) – Classic Movie Review 1863

  For his first film as director in 1969, Richard Attenborough chooses an ambitious project – to make a movie version of producer-writer Joan Littlewood’s Sixties London Theatre Royal Stratford stage production. It won the […]

Nov, 22

The Dam Busters **** (1955, Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans) – Classic Movie Review 1857

Director Michael Anderson’s 1954 true life wartime adventure movie brings the once famous story of Barnes Wallis’s bouncing bombs that blasted open Germany’s crucial Ruhr dams in 1943 to vivid life. At the centre and heart […]

Nov, 18

Kipps [The Remarkable Mr Kipps] ***½ (1941, Michael Redgrave, Phyllis Calvert, Diana Wynyard) – Classic Movie Review 1836

Director Carol Reed’s 1941 vintage film Kipps [The Remarkable Mr Kipps] stars an ideally cast Michael Redgrave, who does wonders with the role of H G Wells’s draper’s assistant and apprentice Mr Arthur Kipps. He […]

Nov, 12

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner **** (1962, Tom Courtenay, Michael Redgrave, James Fox) Classic Movie Review 1648

Producer-director Tony Richardson’s 1962 movie The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner does full just to its source author Alan Sillitoe, who provides a commendably taut screenplay from his own novella about a reform school boy […]

Sep, 07

The Way to the Stars **** (1945, John Mills, Michael Redgrave, Trevor Howard) – Classic Movie Review 1337

Director Anthony Asquith’s stirring 1945 wartime salute to the Royal Air Force concentrates on the personal relationships of a group of men stationed on a World War Two British bomber airfield. In the star department, there […]

Jun, 18

The Importance of Being Earnest ***** (1952, Michael Redgrave, Michael Denison, Edith Evans) – Classic Movie Review 1161

Writer-director Anthony Asquith delivers a beautifully graceful movie version of Oscar Wilde’s greatest work. He has the most polished and perfect cast at his disposal in this much revered, impeccably staged 1952 British classic high […]

Apr, 30

Dead of Night ***** (1945, Mervyn Johns, Michael Redgrave, Roland Culver, Googie Withers, Sally Ann Howes) – Classic Movie Review 399

‘Suitable only for adults’, according to the poster, the famous vintage 1945 British chiller Dead of Night about a man’s fear of impending doom is satisfying, polished and still truly creepy. The hero’s half-remembered recurring […]

Nov, 13

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