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The Three Weird Sisters *** (1948, Nancy Price, Mary Clare, Mary Merrall) – Classic Movie Review 12,185

Director Daniel Birt’s 1948 British melodrama film The Three Weird Sisters is based on Charlotte Armstrong’s novel The Case of the Weird Sisters, and stars Nancy Price, Mary Clare, Mary Merrall, Nova Pilbeam and Raymond Lovell. Dylan Thomas had a […]

Jun, 20

Castle in the Desert *** (1942, Sidney Toler, Arleen Whelan, Richard Derr) – Classic Movie Review 9046

  This final Charlie Chan film in the 20th Century Fox series, director Harry Lachman’s 1942 Castle in the Desert, is a good one, with a decent script and a fine cast. The studio cut […]

Nov, 02

Murder in Three Acts ** (1986, Peter Ustinov, Tony Curtis, Emma Samms, Jonathan Cecil, Fernando Allende, Pedro Armedariz Jr) – Classic Movie Review 7208

Director Gary Nelson’s moderate 1986 Agatha Christie murder thriller Murder in Three Acts offers a new mystery to solve for Peter Ustinov’s Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, who investigates some suspicious deaths by poison after he […]

Jun, 23

Phantom Thread ***** (2017, Daniel Day-Lewis, Vicky Krieps, Lesley Manville) – Movie Review

Phantom Thread (2017) is an incredibly bold and brave and beautiful film from wayward auteur (I mean that nicely) Paul Thomas Anderson. Boy, it is one heck of a weird movie! It starts with echoes […]

Jan, 23

Rasputin: The Mad Monk *** (1966, Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Richard Pasco, Francis Matthews, Renée Asherson, Dinsdale Landen, Suzan Farmer, Joss Ackland) – Classic Movie Review 2889

Director Don Sharp’s colourful and entertaining 1966 Hammer Films studios horror movie Rasputin: The Mad Monk finds Christopher Lee going bananas as the sinister mad monk Grigori Rasputin, who uses his hypnotic powers and sexuality […]

Sep, 07

The Arsenal Stadium Mystery *** (1939, Leslie Banks, Greta Gynt, Esmond Knight) – Classic Movie Review 2455

Leslie Banks gives a good, solid and splendidly offbeat star performance as Detective Inspector Anthony Slade, an oddball Scotland Yard policeman, in director Thorold Dickinson’s fair, fun 1939 little British murder mystery thriller. It is notable as […]

May, 04

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