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Female on the Beach *** (1955, Joan Crawford, Jeff Chandler, Jan Sterling, Cecil Kellaway, Natalie Schafer, Charles Drake) – Classic Movie Review 7734

‘Never has a woman loved so deeply or so dangerously!’ Director Joseph Pevney’s 1955 film noir crime thriller Female on the Beach provides an archetypal role for Joan Crawford – as Lynn Markham, the rich […]

Nov, 01

The Fugitive Kind *** (1960, Marlon Brando, Joanne Woodward, Anna Magnani) – Classic Movie Review 6948

‘With a guitar and a snakeskin jacket he drifted out of the rain… into the lives of these two women…’ Tennessee Williams’s second-level 1957 tragic play Orpheus Descending gets the extravagant full-monty emoting it needs […]

Apr, 19

Sex and the Single Girl *** (1964, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Henry Fonda, Lauren Bacall, Mel Ferrer ) – Classic Movie Review 5978

Tony Curtis stars as Bob Weston, the womanising editor of a sleazy scandal mag, who first gets an interview with renowned psychologist Helen Gurley Brown (Natalie Wood) in order to attack her bestseller sex book, […]

Aug, 27

Wild Orchids *** (1929, Greta Garbo, Lewis Stone, Nils Asther) – Classic Movie Review 5331

Director Sidney Franklin’s steamy 1929 MGM silent drama stars Greta Garbo, Lewis Stone and Nils Asther. Garbo is on alluring form, dressed by Adrian and photographed by William H Daniels. It is written by Hanns Kräly, Ruth Cummings, Willis Goldbeck and […]

Apr, 21

Bedtime Story *** (1964, David Niven, Marlon Brando, Shirley Jones) Classic Movie Review 5215

Director Ralph Levy’s original 1964 comedy Bedtime Story with David Niven and Marlon Brando as a pair of upstaging rival French Riviera gigolo conmen is now known better as the basis for its 1988 remake […]

Mar, 29

Born to Be Bad ** (1934, Loretta Young, Cary Grant, Marion Burns, Jackie Kelk, Henry Travers, Russell Hopton, Mary Forbes) – Classic Movie Review 4797

Loretta Young stars in the 1934 pre-Code drama film Born to Be Bad as Letty Strong, a skimpily clad unmarried mother who tries to seduce married millionaire ‘Mal’ Trevor (Cary Grant), The film got into […]

Dec, 18

The Rake’s Progress [Notorious Gentleman] **** (1945, Rex Harrison, Jean Kent, Griffith Jones, Lilli Palmer, Margaret Johnson, Godfrey Tearle) – Classic Movie Review 4432

The writing-producer team of Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat’s biography of a modern-day cad, inspired by Hogarth’s famous eight prints, is clever, sharp-witted and good humoured. Director Sidney Gilliat’s polished 1945 British comedy drama gives […]

Sep, 28

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