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The Woman Accused *** (1933, Nancy Carroll, Cary Grant, John Halliday, Irving Pichel, Louis Calhern, Jack LaRue) – Classic Movie Review 7350

Director Paul Sloane’s 1933 drama The Woman Accused is a Thirties high-concept movie: a version of a Liberty Magazine’s idea to get 10 renowned authors to write a chapter of a serial without consulting each […]

Jul, 26

Madame Bovary **** (1949, Jennifer Jones, Van Heflin, James Mason, Louis Jourdan, Alf Kjellin) – Classic Movie Review 7347

MGM take a dip into French literature and both survive! Director Vincente Minnelli’s lavish and well-played 1949 American production finds James Mason cast as the 19th-century writer Gustave Flaubert, who is on trial for corruption […]

Jul, 26

The Trials of Oscar Wilde **** (1960, Peter Finch, Yvonne Mitchell, James Mason, John Fraser, Lionel Jeffries, Nigel Patrick) – 7237

Director Ken Hughes’s sterling 1960 biopic The Trials of Oscar Wilde is one of two films released at the same time about the dramatist, who was hounded, persecuted and martyred for his homosexuality. It was beaten […]

Jun, 30

In The Fade [Aus dem Nichts] ***** (2017, Diane Kruger, Denis Moschitto, Numan Acar) – Movie Review

Really good, serious-minded German thriller. Diane Kruger great! Writer-director Fatih Akin’s In The Fade [Aus dem Nichts] (2017) is a really good, serious-minded, grown-up German thriller. Diane Kruger is great as Katja Sekerci, who seeks revenge after […]

Jun, 22

Madeleine *** (1950, Ann Todd, Norman Wooland, Ivan Desny, Leslie Banks, Elizabeth Sellars, Ivor Barnard, Edward Chapman) – Classic Movie Review 7085

Madeleine (1949) is a lesser but still intriguing effort from ace all-time great British director David Lean, who casts his then wife Ann Todd in the real-life story of Madeleine Smith who was accused of […]

May, 22

Housewife * (1934, George Brent, Bette Davis, Ann Dvorak, John Halliday) – Classic Movie Review 6900

Director Alfred E Green’s shaky, corny and unconvincing 1934 melodrama of romantic rivalry stars Bette Davis as blonde bombshell advertising copywriter Patricia Berkeley, who tries to vamp her co-worker and old lover William ‘Bill’ Reynolds […]

Apr, 08

Bordertown **** (1935, Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Margaret Lindsay, Eugene Pallette, Robert Barrat, Henry O’Neill) – Classic Movie Review 6855

Director Archie Mayo’s entertaining 1935 Bordertown tale of trouble and strife in a Mexican border town is an impressive crime drama movie, co-scripted by producer Robert Lord, who adapts Carroll Graham’s novel, which was reworked as […]

Mar, 25

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