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Fire Down Below *** (1957, Rita Hayworth, Robert Mitchum, Jack Lemmon, Herbert Lom) – Classic Movie Review 9116
Director Robert Parrish’s 1957 Fire Down Below is based on the novel by Max Catto and stars Robert Mitchum and Jack Lemmon as Felix and Tony, tramp boat owning adventurers falling in love with and […]
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 […]
The Crossing [Guo Chun Tian] **** (2018, Huang Yao, Sunny Sun) – Movie Review
Giving an attractive, compelling, credible performance, Huang Yao is a sympathetic young heroine as Peipei, who has spent much of the 16 years of her life travelling between Hong Kong where she studies and Shenzhen […]
The Rose Tattoo **** (1955, Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster, Marisa Pavan) – Classic Movie Review 7,544
The triple Oscar-winning 1955 film The Rose Tattoo stars a triumphant Anna Magnani, who acts her socks off as the Italian-extracted peasant widow Serafina Delle Rose, in this attractive screen version of Tennessee Williams’s 1951 […]
Captain Clegg [Night Creatures] **** (1962, Peter Cushing, Yvonne Romain, Patrick Allen, Oliver Reed, Michael Ripper, Martin Benson) – Classic Movie Review 6626
Director Peter Graham Scott’s 1962 Hammer Films period adventure is a generally very welcome reworking of novel writer Russell Thorndike’s Dr Syn, with the odd extra Hammer-style horror shock and fright to spruce up the […]
Dr Syn *** (1937, George Arliss, Margaret Lockwood, John Loder, Roy Emerton, Graham Moffatt) – Classic Movie Review 6624
George Arliss’s last movie sees him as Dr Syn, the 18th-century vicar of Dymchurch, Kent, by day but moonlighting as the notorious pirate Captain Clegg by night. Old-style actor Arliss gives an antique barnstorming performance […]
Double Trouble * (1967, Elvis Presley, Annette Day, John Williams, Chips Rafferty, Norman Rossington) – Classic Movie Review 6260
Director Norman Taurog’s 1967 crime comedy musical is a harmless but really rather ghastly showcase for Elvis Presley, one of his weakest films. Chips Rafferty and Norman Rossington co-star as bumbling gem crooks pursuing rock singer […]