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Sunset Across the Bay **** (1975, Gabrielle Daye, Harry Markham, Bob Peck, Peter Sallis) – Classic Movie Review 12,877

Stephen Frears’s amusing, touching and ultimately sad 1975 TV drama Sunset Across the Bay is a bitter-sweet treat, written by Alan Bennett, and starring Gabrielle Daye and Harry Markham. Director Stephen Frears’s amusing, touching and […]

May, 05

Meet Mr Lucifer ** (1953, Stanley Holloway, Peggy Cummins, Jack Watling, Barbara Murray, Joseph Tomelty, Gordon Jackson, Kay Kendall) – Classic Movie Review 11,211

‘A Devil-May-Care Joker From Ealing Studios’: Meet Mr. Lucifer (1953). Director Anthony Pelissier’s 1953 British black and white Ealing Studios satirical fantasy comedy Meet Mr Lucifer stars Stanley Holloway, Peggy Cummins, Jack Watling and Barbara […]

May, 16

Calling Bulldog Drummond *** (1951, Walter Pidgeon, Margaret Leighton, Robert Beatty, David Tomlinson, Peggy Evans) – Classic Movie Review 10,879

Ron Randell and Tom Conway tried the Bulldog Drummond character for two films each in 1947-48, followed by Walter Pidgeon in this one-off appearance in director Victor Saville’s 1951 mystery crime thriller Calling Bulldog Drummond, […]

Feb, 04

Dad’s Army **** (1971, Arthur Lowe, John le Mesurier, Clive Dunn, John Laurie, James Beck, Arnold Ridley, Ian Lavender, Bill Pertwee, Liz Fraser) – Classic Movie Review 3,315

Director Norman Cohen’s 1971 vintage British comedy film Dad’s Army is set in 1939 in Walmington-on-Sea, England, where George Mainwaring (Arthur Lowe), manager of St Martin’s Bank, forms the town’s platoon of the Local Defence […]

Feb, 02

The Intern *** (2015, Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway, Rene Russo) – Movie Review

Robert De Niro plays 70-year-old retired widower Ben Whittaker. He’s a sweet, kind, thoughtful and indeed almost saintly individual. This gives De Niro quite a challenge. All the way through this spectacularly long comedy, I […]

Sep, 30

The Murders in the Rue Morgue *** (1986, George C Scott, Rebecca De Mornay, Ian McShane, Neil Dickson, Val Kilmer) – Classic Movie Review 2,683

George C Scott stars as detective Auguste Dupin, who comes out of retirement to help his daughter Claire (Rebecca De Mornay)’s fiancé Phillipe Huron (Val Kilmer) prove that he did not commit a series of […]

Jul, 09

Mr Holmes ***½ (2015, Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Milo Parker, Frances de la Tour) – Movie Review

With a bit of Gandalf in there, and looking and sounding remarkably like Sir John Gielgud, Ian McKellen has a lot of fun slicing the ham as an aged, retired Sherlock Holmes. The great detective is […]

May, 06

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