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The Star **** (1952, Bette Davis, Sterling Hayden, Natalie Wood) – Classic Movie Review 2747

In Stuart Heisler’s 1952 romantic and Hollywood drama The Star, Bette Davis boldly takes on a role written for her arch-rival Joan Crawford, who then turned it down, about Margaret ‘Maggie’ Elliot, a has-been star […]

Jul, 28

The Great Race ***** (1965, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Peter Falk, Keenan Wynn, Arthur O’Connell) – Classic Movie Review 2737

Director Blake Edwards re-teams the brilliant Some Like It Hot stars Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis as The Great Race’s moustachioed villain and handsome white-suited hero, who fight it out on the road from New […]

Jul, 24

The Silver Chalice * (1954, Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Jack Palance, Virginia Mayo) – Bad Movie 8

Director Victor Saville’s 1954 historical epic saga, based on the 1952 novel by Thomas B Costain, is a legendary bad movie. Its star, Paul Newman, took out a newspaper ad in America to ask people […]

Jul, 13

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice **** (1969,Robert Culp, Natalie Wood, Elliott Gould, Dyan Cannon) – Classic Movie Review 1388

Co-writer/director Paul Mazursky’s teasing and titillating 1969 Swinging Sixties wife-and-husband-swapping comedy is extremely entertaining and perceptive, and was deservedly extremely popular in its day. It captures the spirit of the time when America’s moral climate was […]

Jul, 02

West Side Story ***** (1961, Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, George Chakiris, Rita Moreno) – Classic Film Review 1,051

‘Make of our hands one hand. Make of our hearts one heart.’ Directors Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins lavish all on the stupendous, 10 Oscar-winning 1961 movie classic version of the all-time great 1957 stage […]

Apr, 04

Rebel Without a Cause ***** (1955, James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo) – Classic Movie Review 658

James Dean gives a mesmerisingly exciting and touching performance as alienated youth Jim Stark, in the 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause, based on an original story by the film’s director Nicholas Ray. With his […]

Jan, 09

Miracle on 34th Street ***** (1947, Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O’Hara, John Payne) – Classic Movie Review 508

In a fondly remembered performance that won him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar, a perfectly cast Edmund Gwenn is a twinkling miracle as merry old Kris Kringle in this delicious 1947 Christmas fantasy film about […]

Dec, 13

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