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The Navy Lark ** (1959, Leslie Phillips, Cecil Parker, Ronald Shiner, Elvi Hale, Nicholas Phipps, Gordon Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 13,759

The 1959 British comedy film The Navy Lark is based on one of the most successful comedy series in UK radio history, and stars Cecil Parker, Ronald Shiner, Leslie Phillips and Elvi Hale. Even so, […]

Oct, 14

Bequest to the Nation [The Nelson Affair] ** (1973, Glenda Jackson, Peter Finch, Michael Jayston, Anthony Quayle, Margaret Leighton, Dominic Guard, Nigel Stock) – Classic Movie Review 10,716

Director James Cellan Jones’s 1973 British historical biopic Bequest to the Nation [The Nelson Affair] stars Peter Finch as Viscount Horatio Nelson (1759-1805) and Glenda Jackson as his mistress Lady Emma Hamilton (1765-1815). This is […]

Dec, 27

Destination Gobi *** (1953, Richard Widmark, Don Taylor, Max Showalter) – Classic Movie Review 10,253

‘ADVENTURE AS FIERY AND FURIOUS AS THE FLAMING SANDS OF CHINA’S GOBI DESERT!’ Director Robert Wise’s 1953 drama Destination Gobi, his first film in colour, is an engrossing war adventure about US Navy men on […]

Sep, 01

We Joined the Navy * (1962, Kenneth More, Lloyd Nolan, Mischa Auer, Derek Fowlds, Joan O’Brien, Denise Warren) – Classic Movie Review 9274

Kenneth More, Jeremy Lloyd, Dinsdale Landen and Derek Fowlds play four sailors who embroil themselves in political nonsense in the Mediterranean in director Wendy Toye’s soggy 1962 comedy We Joined the Navy, which is very […]

Jan, 17

The Bridges at Toko-Ri *** (1954, William Holden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March, Mickey Rooney) – Classic Movie Review 8479

James A Michener’s bestselling novel about the friendship of two Korean War jet pilots is strongly cast in director Mark Robson’s high-flying 1954 Paramount Pictures production The Bridges at Toko-Ri. The stars (especially William Holden […]

May, 18

Raising a Riot *** (1955, Kenneth More, Shelagh Fraser, Mandy Miller) – Classic Movie Review 8116

Director Wendy Toye’s bright and breezy 1955 Technicolor British comedy Raising a Riot stars Kenneth More as Tony Kent, who has just had three years in the Navy and returns home to discover that his […]

Feb, 11

The Midshipmaid [Midshipmaid Gob] ** (1932, Jessie Matthews, A W Baskcomb, Basil Sydney, Frederick Kerr, Nigel Bruce, Claud Allister, John Mills, George Zucco) – Classic Movie Review 8103

Jessie Matthews stars in her second major film role (following Out of the Blue in 1931), the first of two films she made directed by Albert de Courville, followed by There Goes the Bride (1932). Director Albert de Courville’s […]

Feb, 07

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