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Hedda *** (1975, Glenda Jackson, Timothy West, Peter Eyre, Jennie Linden, Patrick Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 10,730
Writer-director Trevor Nunn’s 1975 drama Hedda is a moderate, rather heavy-going, and uncinematic but beautifully acted film version of Jackson’s Royal Shakespeare Company stage performance as Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler. Nunn adapts it from the […]
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 […]
Kidnapped *** (1971, Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Jack Hawkins, Donald Pleasence, Lawrence Douglas, Gordon Jackson, Freddie Jones, Jack Watson, Vivien Heilbron) – Classic Movie Review 10,701
‘Robert Louis Stevenson’s Great Adventure Story… Now a Monumental Motion Picture!’ Director Delbert Mann’s 1971 British-made adventure Kidnapped is the fourth big movie attempt at the Robert Louis Stevenson tale of adventure and romance – […]
The Abdication * (1974, Peter Finch, Liv Ullmann, Cyril Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 10,523
Queen Christina: ‘I, Christina, Sovereign of Sweden, do hereby abdicate my throne.’ ‘She shook the Vatican like an earthquake. Shocking whispers had preceded her. Debauchery. Unspeakable acts. A reign of scandal… And now she had […]
Pascali’s Island **** (1988, Ben Kingsley, Charles Dance, Helen Mirren) – Classic Movie Review 10,421
Director James Dearden’s 1988 British period spy drama Pascali’s Island is based on the novel by Barry Unsworth and is a most satisfying tale of love and spies set on a Greek island just before […]
The Ballad of Joe Hill [Joe Hill] *** (1971, Thommy Berggren, Anja Schmidt, Kelvin Malave) – Classic Movie Review 10,293
Director Bo Widerberg’s 1971 Swedish historical biographical drama film The Ballad of Joe Hill [Joe Hill] stars Thommy Berggren as the legendary Swedish-American agitator Joe Hill. At the start-of-the-last-century, Joe Hill (Berggren), a Swedish immigrant […]
The Best Intentions ***** (1992, Samuel Fröler, Pernilla August, Max von Sydow) – Classic Movie Review 9921
Ingmar Bergman’s true story about the courtship and marriage of his parents Henrik and Anna (Samuel Fröler, Pernilla August) becomes director Bille August’s 1992 period drama film The Best Intentions [Den Goda Viljan], which won […]