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Three Men in a Boat **½ (1956, Jimmy Edwards, Laurence Harvey, David Tomlinson, Shirley Eaton, Robertson Hare, Jill Ireland, Lisa Gastoni, Martita Hunt, Adrienne Corri, A E Matthews, Ernest Thesiger) – Classic Movie Review 4310
All should be plain sailing with director Ken Annakin’s 1956 British screen version of Jerome K Jerome’s misadventures of three less than eminent Victorians, Harris, George and Jimmy (Jimmy Edwards, Laurence Harvey and David Tomlinson), […]
Wild River **** (1960, Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet, Albert Salmi, Jay C Flippen) – Classic Movie Review 4,052
Elia Kazan’s 1960 drama film Wild River hands a grand role to Jo Van Fleet as the obstinate Alabama matriarch Ella Garth who clashes with 1930s young Tennessee Valley Authority field administrator Chuck Glover (Montgomery […]
River ***½ (2015, Rossif Sutherland, Douangmany Soliphanh, Sara Botsford, Ted Atherton, David Soncin, Aidan Gillett) – Movie Review
Writer-director Jamie M Dagg makes his feature debut with this strong, involving, credible thriller, a lesson in how to craft tension and dynamism in film-making. Rossif Sutherland is excellent as the American volunteer doctor hero who witnesses a rape […]
Deliverance ***** (1972, Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox) – Classic Movie Review 3595
Producer-director John Boorman’s disturbing and chilling but thrilling 1972 adventure nightmare suspense thriller with a message is one of the key films of its era and an influential game-changer for this kind of story. It […]
The Cry of the Owl *** (2009, Paddy Considine, Julia Stiles, Karl Pruner) – Classic Movie Review 3550
Director Jamie Thraves also writes the screenplay of this intriguing 2009 thriller, adapting the novel by Patricia Highsmith that had already provided a most satisfying movie version in 1987 from masterly Claude Chabrol, The Cry of the […]
The Cure **** (1995, Joseph Mazzello, Brad Renfro, Annabella Sciorra, Diana Scarwid) – Classic Movie Review 3517
Director Peter Horton’s poignant 1995 drama is an outstanding little gem. Brad Renfro stars as loner Erik who finds a little older and much bigger best friend in his next door neighbour Dexter (Joseph Mazzello), an 11-year-old […]
The Pirates of Blood River *** (1962, Christopher Lee, Kerwin Mathews, Peter Arne, Oliver Reed, Michael Ripper, Andrew Keir, Glenn Corbett) – Classic Movie Review 3280
In co-writer/director John Gilling’s 1962 high adventure yarn The Pirates of Blood River, pirates attack the French Huguenots for their gold. The movie stars Kerwin Mathews as the dashing Huguenot hero Jonathon Standing battling the […]