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The Rocking Horse Winner ***½ (1949, John Mills, Valerie Hobson, John Howard Davies, Ronald Squire, Hugh Sinclair) – Classic Movie Review 5138

The  1949 fantasy film The Rocking Horse Winner adapts a D H Lawrence short story about a young boy who can accurately pick winners in horse races. It stars John Mills, who also produces, Valerie Hobson, John […]

Mar, 11

It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World **** (1963, Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Ethel Merman, Jimmy Durante, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney, Phil Silvers, Terry-Thomas, Peter Falk) – Classic Movie Review 5094

Producer-director Kramer delivers what it says on the tin – ‘a comedy to end all comedies’ – in a bright and breezy epic madcap cross-country chase farce that skilfully piles up daffy turns, funny gags […]

Mar, 03

Mystery of the Wax Museum **** (1933, Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh) – Classic Movie Review 5,024

The gruesomely atmospheric 1933 horror film Mystery of the Wax Museum stars Lionel Atwill as Ivan Igor, the scarred museum owner with human wax-covered models. The beautiful restoration of the two-colour Technicolor film reveals it […]

Feb, 13

What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? **** (1969, Geraldine Page, Ruth Gordon, Rosemary Forsyth, Robert Fuller, Mildred Dunnock) – Classic Movie Review 4,817

This extremely tasty 1969 black comedy mystery chiller film What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? stars Geraldine Page as an Arizona widow who has a bad habit of bumping off the home help for their […]

Dec, 29

Sorcerer ** (1977, Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, Amidou, Ramon Bieri) – Classic Movie Review 4507

William Friedkin’s 1977 box-office flop American remake of the 1953 French classic thriller The Wages of Fear is an extravagant and sometimes impressive movie. Roy Scheider makes a useful hero, but Sorcerer is not a […]

Oct, 22

The Silent Partner **** (1978, Elliott Gould, Christopher Plummer, Susannah York) – Classic Movie Review 4397

Director Daryl Duke’s first-rate, exciting, hard-driving 1978 Canadian neo noir thriller is co-produced and written for the screen by Curtis Hanson, Oscar-winning writer/director on LA Confidential. Elliott Gould and Christopher Plummer play a shy but sly […]

Sep, 22

The White Balloon [Badkonake sefid] **** (1995, Aida Mohammadkhani, Mohsen Kafili, Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy) – Classic Movie Review 4226

Director Jafar Panahi’s intense Iranian winner of the 1995 Camera D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival is a nice try at something intelligent and different. This much admired film from Iran is well made and distinctly unsettling. […]

Aug, 24

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