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The Story of Robin Hood and his Merrie Men **** (1952, Richard Todd, Joan Rice, Peter Finch, James Hayter, Martita Hunt, James Robertson Justice) – Classic Movie Review 3474

Director Ken Annakin’s lusty, richly enjoyable 1952 British Disney live-action version of the classic tale highlights reliably engaging turns from a splendid ensemble headed by Richard Todd as the outlaw Robin Hood, Joan Rice as […]

Mar, 14

Asylum [House of Crazies] *** (1972, Robert Powell, Charlotte Rampling, Patrick Magee, Sylvia Syms, Richard Todd, Peter Cushing, Geoffrey Bayldon, Barbara Parkins, Barry Morse, Britt Ekland, Herbert Lom) – Classic Movie Review 3093

Director Roy Ward Baker’s 1972 British horror film is the third Amicus portmanteau movie collection of stories from the pen of screen-writer Robert Bloch (Psycho). An excellent cast underplays the chills and the black humour […]

Nov, 25

House of the Long Shadows *** (1983, Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, John Carradine, Desi Arnaz Jr, Richard Todd, Sheila Keith) – Classic Movie Review 2837

Four film ghouls gather in House of the Long Shadows. Four iconic horror film stars Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and John Carradine star together in director Pete Walker’s horror parody. It gets an extra star […]

Aug, 22

The Dam Busters **** (1955, Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans) – Classic Movie Review 1857

Director Michael Anderson’s 1954 true life wartime adventure movie brings the once famous story of Barnes Wallis’s bouncing bombs that blasted open Germany’s crucial Ruhr dams in 1943 to vivid life. At the centre and heart […]

Nov, 18

The Big Sleep *** (1978, Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Richard Boone, James Stewart, Candy Clark, Joan Collins, Richard Boone, Edward Fox, John Mills, Oliver Reed, Harry Andrews, Richard Todd) – Classic Movie Review 742

Director Michael Winner’s 1978 reworking of Howard Hawks’s 1946 film noir masterpiece The Big Sleep with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall makes the twin cardinal errors of updating the yarn to the Seventies and misplacing […]

Jan, 24

Stage Fright **** (1950, Marlene Dietrich, Jane Wyman, Richard Todd, Michael Wilding, Alastair Sim, Sybil Thorndike, Kay Walsh, Patricia Hitchcock) – Classic Movie Review 326

Alfred Hitchcock recalls his 1950 British thriller film Stage Fright: ‘Several of the reviewers mentioned Selwyn Jepson’s novel Man Running might make a good Hitchcock picture and I, like an idiot, believed them.’ ‘Love held […]

Oct, 26

The Hasty Heart **** (1949, Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal, Richard Todd) – Classic Movie Review 320

Richard Todd rightly relishes his finest piece of acting in the movies, as an aloof Scottish wounded soldier unaware he’s dying, in the 1949 wartime drama film The Hasty Heart. It’s also Ronald Reagan’s finest […]

Oct, 25

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