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The Assisi Underground ** (1985, Ben Cross, James Mason, Irene Papas) – Classic Movie Review 10,263

Writer-director Alexander Ramati’s 1985 The Assisi Underground is a well-meaning, costly, but largely ineptly told wartime adventure about Catholic monks in Assisi (Perugia, Umbria, Italy) hiding Italian Jewish refugees from the Nazis in 1943 and […]

Sep, 04

Judith ** (1966, Sophia Loren, Peter Finch, Jack Hawkins) – Classic Movie Review 10,152

Sophia Loren was blacklisted in Arab countries after playing a Jewish woman in Judith (1966). Director Daniel Mann’s 1966 drama Judith [Conflict] stars Sophia Loren, Peter Finch and Jack Hawkins but does not have much […]

Aug, 09

Lucky Jordan * (1942, Alan Ladd, Helen Walker, Sheldon Leonard) – Classic Movie Review 10,105

Director Frank Tuttle’s 1942 crime drama Lucky Jordan is a shaky, unexciting vehicle for Alan Ladd as New York gangster Lucky Jordan, an artful dodger, crook and gambler. He is drafted into the army, deserts, and […]

Jul, 29

Salon Kitty * (1976, Helmut Berger, Ingrid Thulin, Teresa Ann Savoy) – Classic Movie Review 10,086

Helmut Berger stars as Helmut Wallenberg and Ingrid Thulin plays Kitty Kellermann, who runs a brothel for soldiers in Nazi Germany, in director Tinto Brass’s notorious, controversial 1976 soft core erotic-war-drama film Salon Kitty. It […]

Jul, 25

The Juggler **½ (1953, Kirk Douglas, Milly Vitale, Paul Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 10,059

Director Edward Dmytryk’s 1953 drama The Juggler is based on the novel by Michael Blankfort and stars Kirk Douglas as German Jewish refugee Hans Mueller, a Holocaust survivor who is so traumatised by his experiences […]

Jul, 19

Quiet Please: Murder **** (1942, George Sanders, Gail Patrick, Richard Denning, Lynne Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 9871  

Shhhh… pray silence please… George Sanders is just committing a murder in the library… well that’s one way to get a book…  Director John Larkin’s 1942 Quiet Please: Murder is a pleasantly peculiar library-set crime-drama […]

Jun, 06

The First of the Few [Spitfire] **** (1942, Leslie Howard, David Niven, Rosamund John) – Classic Movie Review 9384

Lots of exciting aerial sequences, a good dash of sentiment and an appropriately stiff-lipped script help to make Leslie Howard’s 1942 black and white wartime tribute The First of the Few [Spitfire] a thoroughly affecting […]

Feb, 14

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