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Water ** (1985, Michael Caine, Valerie Perrine, Brenda Vaccaro, Leonard Rossiter, Billy Connolly, Maureen Lipman) – Classic Movie Review 10,368

Co-writer/ director Dick Clement’s 1985 British film Water is a feeble Ealing Studios-style comedy, with good players, perhaps encouraged by the thinness of the script, to be too generous with the scale of their performances. […]

Sep, 30

Captain Pirate *** (1952, Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina, John Sutton) – Classic Movie Review 9377

Director Ralph Murphy’s 1952 swashbuckling action adventure Captain Pirate [Captain Blood Fugitive] is the improved Technicolor sequel to Fortunes of Captain Blood (1950) and is based on Rafael Sabatini’s novel Captain Blood Returns. It again […]

Feb, 13

Island in the Sun ** (1957, James Mason, Joan Fontaine, Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, John Williams, Joan Collins, Michael Rennie) – Classic Movie Review 5,677

Hollywood struggles to bring the Alec Waugh bestseller about the troubled lives and inter-racial loves in the exotic Fifties British West Indies to the screen, in the then controversial 1957 drama film Island in the […]

Jun, 28

I Walked with a Zombie **** (1943, Frances Dee, Tom Conway, James Ellison, Edith Barrett, James Bell, Christine Gordon) – Classic Movie Review 2674

Director Jacques Tourneur creates a superb air of unease in this exceptional 1943 vintage cult horror movie. In one of his finest, most eerie films, producer Val Lewton employs his zombies to poetic effect and […]

Jul, 06

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