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Bluebeard *** (1944, John Carradine, Jean Parker, Nils Asther) – Classic Movie Review 10,322

Director Edgar G Ulmer’s good little 19th-century-set 1944 serial killer horror thriller Bluebeard finds John Carradine on top form as puppeteer Gaston Morel, the Paris portrait-artist and strangler who comes under the spell of a […]

Sep, 18

Goodbye Again *** (1961, Ingrid Bergman, Yves Montand, Anthony Perkins, Jessie Royce Landis) – Classic Movie Review 9,746

The 1961 romantic drama film Goodbye Again stars Ingrid Bergman as middle-aged French interior designer Paula, who trades in suave, wealthy Roger (Yves Montand) for boyish lawyer Philip (Anthony Perkins). Director Anatole Litvak’s 1961 romantic […]

May, 10

A Very Special Favor ** (1965, Rock Hudson, Leslie Caron, Charles Boyer, Nita Talbot, Dick Shawn, Walter Slezak) – Classic Movie Review 9665

Director Michael Gordon’s 1965 romantic comedy A Very Special Favor stars Charles Boyer as smooth and mature Frenchman Michel Boullard, who, for scant plot reasons, asks a wealthy American oilman called Paul Chadwick (Rock Hudson) if […]

Apr, 22

Lady L ** (1965, Sophia Loren, Paul Newman, David Niven, Peter Ustinov, Cecil Parker, Claude Dauphin, Philippe Noiret, Michel Piccoli, Marcel Dalio) – Classic Movie Review 9,615

Peter Ustinov’s tour-de-force 1965 comedy film Lady L follows the route of Louise Lendale (Sophia Loren) from poor laundress in a Paris brothel to English lady via a series of espionage-style misadventures. The 1965 comedy […]

Apr, 08

The Aviator’s Wife [La femme de l’aviateur] **** (1981, Philippe Marlaud, Marie Rivière, Anne-Laure Meury, Mathieu Carrière) – Classic Movie Review 9460

The Aviator’s Wife [La Femme de l’Aviateur] (1981) is an excellent conversation piece from Eric Rohmer (the opening one of his Comédies et Proverbes series) about a young Frenchman François (Philippe Marlaud) and the eponymous […]

Mar, 04

Le beau mariage [A Good Marriage] **** (1982, Béatrice Romand, André Dussollier, Féodor Atkine) – Classic Movie Review 9459

Writer-director Eric Rohmer’s highly stylish and diverting Comedy and Proverb character study, ideas picture and talk scenario centres on a French 1920s art student (Béatrice Romand), Sabine, who looks for an ideal love, or, in […]

Mar, 04

Under the Roofs of Paris [Sous les Toits de Paris] ****½ (1930, Albert Préjean, Pola Illéry, Edmond T Gréville, Gaston Modot) – Classic Movie Review 9181

Writer-director René Clair’s first sound film, the 1930 Sous les Toits de Paris [Under the Roofs of Paris], is a nostalgic tale set in Paris about two men, the street singer Albert (Albert Préjean) and […]

Dec, 21

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