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Five Days One Summer **** (1982, Sean Connery, Betsy Brantley, Lambert Wilson, Jennifer Hilary, Isabel Dean, Anna Massey, Gérard Buhr, Sheila Reid) – Classic Movie Review 10,647

Producer-director Fred Zinnemann’s 1982 drama of incestuous love Five Days One Summer is a gorgeous looking 1930s-set Alps soap opera in which ageing, respectable married Dr Douglas Meredith (Sean Connery) and a young lady whom […]

Dec, 11

Assignment K * (1968, Stephen Boyd, Camilla Sparv, Michael Redgrave, Leo McKern, Jeremy Kemp, Jane Merrow) – Classic Movie Review 10,514

Classy actors Michael Redgrave, Leo McKern, Jeremy Kemp and Jane Merrow rescue Val Guest’s mostly dull and dreary 1968 British spy thriller film Assignment K. Director Val Guest’s mostly dull and dreary 1968 British spy […]

Nov, 08

Bluebeard ** (1972, Richard Burton, Raquel Welch, Joey Heatherton, Virna Lisi, Nathalie Delon, Sybil Danning) – Classic Movie Review 10,321

Director Edward Dmytryk’s 1972 serial killer crime thriller Bluebeard stars a tired-looking Richard Burton, who has a monotonous go at playing Bluebeard, Baron Kurt Von Sepper, the Austrian aristocrat who likes to murder his mistresses […]

Sep, 18

Hidden City *** (1987, Charles Dance, Cassie Stuart, Bill Paterson) – Classic Movie Review 9747

Smoothie Charles Dance stars in Stephen Poliakoff’s first cinema film as writer-director, the 1987 British mystery thriller Hidden City, which is set round a south London building used as an interrogation centre in World War […]

May, 11

Top Secret Affair *** (1957, Susan Hayward, Kirk Douglas, Paul Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 9521

Director H C Potter’s merry and diverting 1957 romantic comedy Top Secret Affair stars Susan Hayward as Dottie Peale, a newswoman publisher who tries to bring army war-hero/ politician Major General Melville A Goodwin (Kirk […]

Mar, 17

The Shanghai Gesture *** (1941, Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Victor Mature, Ona Munson) – Classic Movie Review 8924

Director Josef von Sternberg’s stylish directorial flourishes are much in evidence in his exotic 1941 black and white film noir-style crime drama The Shanghai Gesture, a tastefully cleaned-up version of John Colson’s once shocking play, […]

Sep, 21

The Secret of Blood Island ** (1965, Jack Hedley, Barbara Shelley, Patrick Wymark, Charles Tingwell, Bill Owen, Lee Montague) – Classic Movie Review 8713

Director Quentin Lawrence’s 1964 The Secret of Blood Island is a Hammer Films World War Two adventure movie that follows British secret agent Elaine (Barbara Shelley) on a mission to a concentration camp in enemy-occupied […]

Jul, 15

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