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Posts Tagged "World War One"

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The Big Parade ***** (1925, John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth) – Classic Movie Review 7895

Director King Vidor’s commanding World War One epic 1925 drama The Big Parade, full of startling battle images bringing the conflict to vivid life, is one of the great highspots of silent cinema. The film takes […]

Dec, 08

Regeneration [Behind the Lines] **** (1997, Jonathan Pryce, James Wilby, Jonny Lee Miller, Stuart Bunce, Tanya Allen, David Hayman, Dougray Scott, John Neville) Classic Movie Review 7883

Jonathan Pryce gives a career-best performance as the psychiatrist who tries to rehabilitate shell-shocked World War One veterans, including war poet Siegfried Sassoon (James Wilby). Director Gillies MacKinnon’s 1997 British-Canadian co-production Regeneration [Behind the Lines] […]

Dec, 05

Dark Journey **** (1937, Conrad Veidt, Vivien Leigh, Joan Gardner, Anthony Bushell, Ursula Jeans, Eliot Makeham, Austin Trevor) – Classic Movie Review 7806

Sparkling performances from the sleek and sexy team of Vivien Leigh and Conrad Veidt light up producer-director Victor Saville’s 1937 thriller Dark Journey [The Anxious Years], an involvingly dark and complex British espionage movie set […]

Nov, 19

Block-Heads **** (1938, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Patricia Ellis, Minna Gombell, Billy Gilbert, James Finlayson) – Classic Movie Review 7372

Director John G Blystone’s 1938 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy comedy Block-Heads was planned as the boys’ final feature film, and it was their swan-song with their producer Hal Roach at Hal Roach Studios and […]

Jul, 29

Journey’s End **** (2017, Sam Claflin, Paul Bettany, Asa Butterfield, Toby Jones, Stephen Graham ) – Movie Review

A new film version of R C Sherriff’s famous play (and novel) Journey’s End was inevitable sooner or later. Actually it is later, for we have had to wait till the impending 100th anniversary of […]

Oct, 06

The Dark Angel **** (1935, Merle Oberon, Fredric March, Herbert Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 5693

Director Sidney Franklin’s 1935 romance stars the formidable trio of Merle Oberon, Fredric March and Herbert Marshall, and is an Academy Award winner as its production designer Richard Day won an Oscar for Best Art […]

Jul, 02

Lilac Time [Love Never Dies] **** (1928, Colleen Moore, Gary Cooper, Eugenie Besserer) – Classic Movie Review 5487

Director George Fitzmaurice’s sweet, simple and strong 1928 romantic drama is a silent movie with a musical score and sound effects, featuring the song Jeannine, I Dream of Lilac Time, and has attractive performances from […]

May, 22

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