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Song without End * (1960, Dirk Bogarde, Capucine, Geneviève Page, Patricia Morison, Ivan Desny, Martita Hunt, Lou Jacobi, Marcel Dalio) – Classic Movie Review 4601
The 1960 musical biopic Song without End is a famously awful version of the life of composer Franz Liszt and his scandalous romance with Princess Carolyne Wittgenstein. Dirk Bogarde and Capucine are horribly miscast and […]
La La Land **** (2016, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Amiée Conn, J K Simmons, Rosemarie DeWitt) – Movie Review
Writer-director Damien Chazelle’s 2016 comedy drama musical La La Land is a good and clever film, graced with two award-worthy performances from Ryan Gosling as struggling jazz pianist Seb and Emma Stone as Mia, the aspiring actress he falls […]
The Seventh Veil **** (1945, James Mason, Ann Todd, Herbert Lom, Hugh McDermott, Albert Lieven) – Classic Movie Review 3780
Ann Todd and Herbert Lom are outstanding in director Compton Bennett’s rousing Oscar-winning 1945 British psychiatry drama The Seventh Veil but it is James Mason who steals the show. ‘If you won’t play for me, […]
Humoresque ***** (1946, Joan Crawford, John Garfield, Oscar Levant, J Carrol Naish, Joan Chandler) – Classic Movie Review 3534
‘One Of The Greatest Of Them All!’ Joan Crawford finds a wonderful vehicle for her unique personality and talents in director Jean Negulesco’s splendid 1946 soap opera. She gives a definitive, crazed performance in this […]
Quartet **** (1948, Dirk Bogarde, Honor Blackman, Susan Shaw, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Jack Watling, Mai Zetterling, Nora Swinburne, Cecil Parker, George Cole) – Classic Movie Review 3180
In this 1948 British black and white compendium movie, Quartet, esteemed author W Somerset Maugham plays host and himself introduces each of four entertaining, superbly cast short films of his own stories, with four different […]
The Beast with Five Fingers **** (1946, Peter Lorre, Andrea King, Robert Alda, J Carrol Naish, Victor Francen) – Classic Movie Review 3114
‘Your flesh will creep… AT THE HAND THAT CRAWLS!!’ Director Robert Florey and writer Curt Siodmak’s 1946 horror movie is highly amusing stuff about a creepy crawly handy sort of beast that roams about a […]
Mad Love **** (1934, Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive, Ted Healy) – Classic Movie Review 3111
Peter Lorre gives a superbly creepy performance as the mad surgeon Doctor Gogol in the enjoyable 1934 second film of Maurice Renard’s novel The Hands of Orlac. Director Karl Freund’s 1934 MGM horror movie classic […]