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South Pacific ***** (1958, Mitzi Gaynor, Rossano Brazzi, John Kerr, France Nuyen, Juanita Hall, Ray Walston) – Classic Movie Review 2,181

South Pacific (1958) is graced with an ultra-charismatic performance by Mitzi Gaynor in her finest screen role as a young American nurse who falls for a mature French plantation owner on a South Pacific island […]

Feb, 19

South Pacific *** (2001, Glenn Close, Harry Connick Jr, Rade Serbedzija) – Classic Movie Review 2182

Director Richard Pearce’s 2001 TV movie remake of the 1958 big-screen favourite is bright, tuneful, well made and handsomely produced, as Richard Rodgers’ and Oscar Hammerstein II’s classic 1949 Broadway musical comes to the small screen […]

Feb, 19

Au Revoir Les Enfants ***** (1987, Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejtö, Francine Racette) – Classic Movie Review 1927

Writer-director Louis Malle’s haunting 1987 semi-autobiographical spellbinder, based on a searingly traumatic event in his childhood, is an exquisitely made, heart-breaking real-life story of appalling cruelty and inhumanity that resonates in the widest context. Set in […]

Dec, 07

Private’s Progress *** (1956, Ian Carmichael, Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Terry-Thomas, William Hartnell) – Classic Movie Review 1847

Co-writer/director John Boulting and producer Roy Boulting’s 1956 vintage British comedy Private’s Progress stars Ian Carmichael, Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Terry-Thomas and William Hartnell. The Boulting Brothers take the risk of sending up the then […]

Nov, 16

Whisky Galore! ***** (1949, Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood, Gordon Jackson) Classic Movie Review 1633

Director Alexander Mackendrick’s brilliant and deservedly fondly remembered 1949 Ealing Studios comedy about the alcohol-deprived folks on a Scottish Outer Hebrides island called Todday in World War Two faced with the temptation of a ship’s […]

Sep, 05

Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror *** (1942, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Evelyn Ankers, Reginald Denny, Thomas Gomez, Henry Daniell) – Classic Movie Review 989

The 1942 mystery thriller film Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror is the first of Universal Pictures’ contemporary Holmes series of 12 B-movies. It strangely mixes Arthur Conan Doyle’s story His Last Bow with […]

Mar, 25

Things to Come **** (1936, Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson, Cedric Hardwicke) – Classic Movie Review 905

In a future 1940, a 30-year-long global war and a black death plague destroys Everytown. Then in 1970, a band of scientists rebuild it into a great futuristic city. And by 2036, the first pair […]

Mar, 12

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