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The Constant Nymph **** (1943, Charles Boyer Joan Fontaine, Alexis Smith, Charles Coburn, Dame May Whitty, Peter Lorre, Eduardo Ciannelli, Brenda Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 6810

Director Edmund Goulding’s 1943 Hollywood version of Margaret Kennedy’s bestselling novel and play (with Basil Dean) is the third movie of the piece, originally filmed in GB in 1928 with Ivor Novello and Mabel Poulton, […]

Mar, 16

Soldier in the Rain * (1963, Steve McQueen, Jackie Gleason, Tuesday Weld, Tony Bill) – Classic Movie Review 6459

Despite starring four notable players Jackie Gleason, Steve McQueen, Tuesday Weld and Tony Bill in their prime, director Ralph Nelson’s 1963 film is a really tedious, overheated wartime romantic comedy drama Army master-sergeant Maxwell Slaughter […]

Dec, 23

Where Danger Lives **** (1950, Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue, Claude Rains, Maureen O’Sullivan) – Classic Movie Review 6,014

John Farrow’s enthralling 1950 RKO film noir crime thriller Where Danger Lives is probably the best film of producer Howard Hughes’s protégé Faith Domergue, sparking off electrically with star Robert Mitchum. ‘MITCHUM! ACTION!’ Director John […]

Sep, 12

L’éternel retour [Love Eternal] **** (1943, Jean Marais, Madeleine Sologne, Jean Murat) – Classic Movie Review 5830

Jean Delannoy directs this strangely forgotten and sadly neglected 1943 film adaptation of the Tristan and Iseult [Isolde] legend, set in a magnificent château in 1940s France. The film’s neglect is truly surprisingly since the screenplay […]

Jul, 30

Le Notti Bianche [White Nights] **** (1957, Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean Marais) – Classic Movie Review 5718

Writer-director Luchino Visconti adapts the 1848 love triangle short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky in one of his finest, most subtle, rewarding and haunting films. The actors give delicate, subtle performances and help him to to make a lot out […]

Jul, 06

Dulcima *** (1971, Carol White, John Mills, Stuart Wilson, Bernard Lee, Dudley Foster) – Classic Movie Review 4277

Writer-director Frank Nesbitt’s 1971 British drama stars Carol White (Poor Cow) as pretty young Dulcima Gaskain, who helps out mean, hard-drinking old farmer Mr Parker (John Mills) by cleaning his farm house. Soon she moves in […]

Sep, 01

The Dresser *** (1983, Tom Courtenay, Albert Finney, Edward Fox, Zena Walker, Eileen Atkins, Michael Gough) – Classic Movie Review 4079

Producer-director Peter Yates turns Ronald Harwood’s 1980 hit play about veteran barnstorming-style ham Shakespearean actor-manager and his camp personal assistant dresser into the 1983 British film The Dresser, with Harwood writing his own screenplay. The […]

Jul, 25

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