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Miss Julie [Fröken Julie] **** (1951, Anita Björk, Ulf Palme, Märta Dorff) – Classic Movie Review 7712

Director Alf Sjöberg’s 1951 Swedish classic Miss Julie (Fröken Julie) is a masterly reworking for cinema of August Strindberg’s world renowned play, in which the moneyed Miss Julie (Anita Björk) plays with her man-servant Jean […]

Oct, 28

Belle Starr *** (1941, Randolph Scott, Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 7494

Director Irving Cummings’s entertaining 1941 Western Belle Starr casts Gene Tierney as the most wanted woman gunslinger in the wild West in this 20th Century Fox studio Western, set at the end of the Civil […]

Aug, 25

The Wedding Night *** (1935, Gary Cooper, Anna Sten, Ralph Bellamy, Sig Ruman, Helen Vinson) – Classic Movie Review 7178

Gary Cooper stars in the romantic drama The Wedding Night (1935) as an author called Tony Barrett who is married to Dora (Helen Vinson), and causes chaos in a Polish farming family when he takes a […]

Jun, 16

Higher and Higher *** (1943, Michèle Morgan, Jack Haley, Frank Sinatra, Leon Errol) – Classic Movie Review 6587

Director Tim Whelan’s 1943 RKO movie is a pleasantly entertaining romantic musical comedy, based on the show by Gladys Hurlbut and Joshua Logan. Nominated for two Oscars, it showcases Frank Sinatra’s first major role, though […]

Jan, 21

The Scent of Green Papaya [Mùi du du xanh] [L’Odeur de la Papaye Verte] **** (1993, Tran Nu Yên-Khê, Man San Lu, Thi Loc Truong) – Classic Movie Review 5938

Writer-director Tran Anh Hung’s spiritual 1993 Franco-Vietnamese drama about the life of a young girl is the 1994 Oscar-nominated Best Foreign Language Film picture. It is a pure and subtle gem that follows the fortunes […]

Aug, 19

Boom! *** (1968, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Noël Coward) – Classic Movie Review 5842

The making of Boom! is a comedy horror story of posh, intelligent people letting their hair down in public. With all the excesses and extravagancies of the Sixties, maybe it is meant to be funny, […]

Aug, 02

Frenchman’s Creek **** (1944, Joan Fontaine, Arturo de Córdova, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce) – Classic Movie Review 5431

Director Mitchell Leisen’s 1944 romance adventure drama finds Joan Fontaine profitably returning to the world of Daphne de Maurier, who provided her with her Hitchcock hit Rebecca. Fontaine stars as the titled romantic Englishwoman, Lady Dona […]

May, 11

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