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The Angel Levine *** (1970, Zero Mostel, Harry Belafonte, Ida Kaminska, Milo O’Shea, Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 11,382

Zero Mostel and Harry Belafonte are superb in the sentimental 1970 drama The Angel Levine, based on a short story by Bernard Malamud. Director Jan Kadar’s sentimental 1970 drama The Angel Levine is based on […]

Jul, 11

Zandy’s Bride [For Better, for Worse] * (1974, Gene Hackman, Liv Ullmann, Eileen Heckart) – Classic Movie Review 10,309

Director Jan Troell’s 1974 romantic Western drama Zandy’s Bride [For Better, for Worse] tells the wispy, dull story of the love affair between spirited Scandinavian mail-order bride Hannah Lund (Liv Ullmann) and her grouchy Californian […]

Sep, 15

Casanova’s Big Night *** (1954, Bob Hope, Joan Fontaine, Audrey Dalton, Vincent Price, Basil Rathbone, Hugh Marlowe, John Carradine, Raymond Burr, Lon Chaney Jr) – Classic Movie Review 9846

Director Norman Z McLeod’s 1954 comedy Casanova’s Big Night stars Bob Hope, who is on tip-top form in his accustomed persona of cowardly braggard, in this case a tailor’s apprentice, Pippo Popolino, pretending to be […]

May, 31

Monsieur Hire ***** (1989, Michel Blanc, Sandrine Bonnaire, Luc Thuillier) – Classic Movie Review 8,725

Patrice Leconte’s dazzlingly stylish French crime thriller film 1989 Monsieur Hire stars Michel Blanc as the lonely bachelor who falls for disrobed object of desire Alice (Sandrine Bonnaire), a young woman he has been peeping […]

Jul, 17

The Bespoke Overcoat ***** (1955, David Kossoff, Alfie Bass, Alf Dean, Alan Tilvern) – Classic Movie Review 7863

The 1955 British Oscar-winning drama The Bespoke Overcoat is an astonishingly fine, beautiful short film from producer-director Jack Clayton, based on a Nikolai Gogol tale called The Cloak, with Alfie Bass and David Kossoff perfectly […]

Dec, 01

Putting Pants on Philip *** (1927, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Sam Lufkin, Harvey Clark, Lee Phelps, Jack Hill, Chester A Bachman) – Classic Movie Review 7401

Director Clyde A Bruckman and producer Hal Roach’s 1927 Putting Pants on Philip is a swish Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy silent 20-minute two-reeler short film, in which Ollie (as the pompous J Piedmont Mumblethunder) has […]

Aug, 05

A Kid for Two Farthings **** (1955, Celia Johnson, Diana Dors, David Kossoff) – Classic Movie Review 5748

‘CAROL REED, the master of The Unexpected, brings you a motion picture of mood and emotion that surpasses all your expectations!’ Director Carol Reed’s sweet, ingratiating 1955 film A Kid for Two Farthings, about a […]

Jul, 12

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