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The Stranger Left No Card **** (1952, Alan Badel, Cameron Hall, Geoffrey Bayldon) – Classic Movie Review 9500

Director-deviser Wendy Toye’s excellent 1952 British black and white short film mystery drama The Stranger Left No Card stars the young Alan Badel in his film debut as an enigmatic stranger who arrives by train […]

Mar, 13

Romance of a Horsethief [Romansa konjokradice] ** (1971, Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Jane Birkin) – Classic Movie Review 9475

Director Abraham Polonsky’s 1971 adventure Romance of a Horsethief [Romansa konjokradice] [Le Roman d’un Voleur de Chevaux] is a little-seen, virtually ignored box-office flop. Based on a story by Joseph Opatoshu, it is a Jewish […]

Mar, 07

Chronicle of a Death Foretold [Cronaca di una morte annunciata] * (1987) – Classic Movie Review 9412

Director Francesco Rosi’s 1987 Italy / France / Colombia drama Chronicle of a Death Foretold [Cronaca di una morte annunciata] is a major miscalculation, with some embarrassing work from some big names of cinema. It […]

Feb, 22

The Little World of Don Camillo [Don Camillo] **** (1952, Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Vera Talchi, Franco Interlenghi, Sylvie) – Classic Movie Review 9353

Director Julien Duvivier’s delightful, light-hearted 1952 French-Italian comedy The Little World of Don Camillo [Don Camillo] [Le petit monde de Don Camillo] stars the always-excellent Fernandel on his most exuberant and engaging form as Don […]

Feb, 07

The North Star ** (1943, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, Walter Brennan, Ann Harding, Farley Granger, Jane Withers, Erich von Stroheim, Dean Jagger) – Classic Movie Review 8883

Director Lewis Milestone’s 1943 romantic wartime drama The North Star is an embarrassing, unreal pro-Soviet propaganda piece on behalf of the post-German invasion American-Russian alliance, about Nazis invading a Russian farming community in the Ukraine […]

Sep, 08

Dragon Seed ** (1944, Katharine Hepburn, Walter Huston, Turhan Bey, Aline MacMahon, Akim Tamiroff, Hurd Hatfield, Agnes Moorehead) – Classic Movie Review 8813

MGM’s 1944 propaganda drama film Dragon Seed is a failed bid to film the hit Pearl S Buck novel about the Chinese being forced to cope with Japanese invaders. It stars a miscast Katharine Hepburn, […]

Aug, 10

Great Day *** (1945, Eric Portman, Flora Robson, Sheila Sim) – Classic Movie Review 8506

Director Lance Comfort’s 1945 Great Day stars Flora Robson, who gives an authoritative turn as Mrs Liz Ellis, the leading light of  the Women’s Institute in the English village of Denley getting ready for the […]

May, 28

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