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Cafe Society *** (1939, Madeleine Carroll, Fred MacMurray, Shirley Ross, Claude Gillingwater, Jessie Ralph, Allyn Joslyn) – Classic Movie Review 8961

Director Edward H Griffith’s amusing 1939 screwball romantic comedy Cafe Society stars Fred MacMurray, who is paired in the first of four films with luscious blonde Madeleine Carroll, who plays a headstrong member of wealthy […]

Oct, 03

Frankenstein: The Real Story ** (1992, Patrick Bergin, Randy Quaid, John Mills) – Classic Movie Review 8824

This monster just won’t lie down, will he? The busy Patrick Bergin brings his sombre demeanour to playing the character of Dr Victor Frankenstein in director David Wickes’s 1992 Gothic horror Frankenstein: The Real Story, […]

Aug, 13

North Sea Hijack [ffolkes] *** (1980, Roger Moore, James Mason, Anthony Perkins, Michael Parks, David Hedison, Jack Watson, George Baker, Faith Brook, David Wood) – Classic Movie Review 8787

Director Andrew V McLaglen’s 1980 North Sea Hijack [ffolkes] stars Roger Moore, who leads the comic-book capers as Ffolkes, an oddball freelance frogman-commando with ice-cool nerve and style (he loves cats, ignores women and does […]

Aug, 02

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979, Michael Caine, Sally Field, Telly Savalas, Karl Malden, Peter Boyle, Jack Warden, Slim Pickens, Shirley Jones, Shirley Knight, Veronica Hamel) – Classic Movie Review 8472

Alas poor Michael Caine! This is his second bad movie at the start of a bad late Seventies run for him, working in America on Irwin Allen’s 1979 Beyond the Poseidon Adventure, the terrible sequel […]

May, 16

The Ship That Died of Shame [PT Raiders] *** (1955, Richard Attenborough, George Baker, Bill Owen, Virginia McKenna) – Classic Movie Review 8461

When World War Two is over, the crew of a gunboat buy their old boat and run smuggled goods across the English Channel into Britain, in director Basil Dearden’s 1955 Ealing Studios black and white […]

May, 12

Raise the Titanic * (1980, Jason Robards, Richard Jordan, David Selby, Alec Guinness, Anne Archer, J D Cannon, M Emmet Walsh, Bo Brundin, Norman Bartold) – Classic Movie Review 8216

Director Jerry Jameson’s sluggish 1980 action adventure thriller Raise the Titanic was a titanic disaster for producer Lord Lew Grade that sank his production company ITC Films in the murky waters of the huge debt […]

Mar, 08

Mystery Sea Raider ** (1940, Carole Landis, Henry Wilcoxon, Onslow Stevens) – Classic Movie Review 8147

‘SPY RING strikes at sea!’ Director Edward Dmytryk’s 1940 Paramount Pictures feature Mystery Sea Raider is a routine World War Two wartime flag-waving spy drama, with some good tension and effective romantic moments, but there […]

Feb, 18

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