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From This Day Forward *** (1946, Joan Fontaine, Mark Stevens, Rosemary DeCamp) – Classic Movie Review 12,307

Joan Fontaine stars in 1946 drama film From This Day Forward, a work of the postwar left wing. The film might be optimistic but soon director John Berry and screenwriter Hugo Butler were Hollywood blacklist […]

Sep, 16

Under the Roofs of Paris [Sous les Toits de Paris] ****½ (1930, Albert Préjean, Pola Illéry, Edmond T Gréville, Gaston Modot) – Classic Movie Review 9181

Writer-director René Clair’s first sound film, the 1930 Sous les Toits de Paris [Under the Roofs of Paris], is a nostalgic tale set in Paris about two men, the street singer Albert (Albert Préjean) and […]

Dec, 21

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn **** (1945, Peggy Ann Garner, James Dunn, Dorothy McGuire Joan Blondell, Lloyd Nolan, Ted Donaldson, James Gleason) – Classic Movie Review 5813

Director Elia Kazan’s warm, meticulous, fully-realised and believable 1945 movie re-creation of life in working-class Brooklyn in the early 1900s before World War One is based on Betty Smith’s novel. It centres on one Irish […]

Jul, 25

A Patch of Blue **** (1965, Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman, Wallace Ford, Ivan Dixon) – Classic Movie Review 4704

Writer/ co-producer/ director Guy Green’s 1965 racially-charged weepie drama is well meaning, conscientiously done and appealing. It was significant at the time in its exploration of racism against the backdrop of the growing US civil […]

Nov, 26

The Landlord **** (1970, Beau Bridges, Lee Grant, Diana Sands, Pearl Bailey, Marki Bey, Louis Gossett, Susan Anspach) – Classic Movie Review 4645

Hal Ashby makes his debut as film director with this intriguingly oddball 1970 satirical comedy drama with a touch of romance. It stars Beau Bridges as Elgar Enders, a rich young man at the age […]

Nov, 13

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