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Enchantment *** (1948, David Niven, Teresa Wright, Evelyn Keyes, Farley Granger) – Classic Movie Review 8882

‘Just About the Most Wonderful Love Story Ever Filmed!’ Director Irving Reis’s 1948 film Enchantment is a fairly enchanting, well-crafted, plushly produced little romantic melodrama, based on Rumer Godden’s novel Take Three Tenses, about a […]

Sep, 07

Ruthless **** (1948, Zachary Scott, Louis Hayward, Diana Lynn, Sydney Greenstreet, Lucille Bremer, Martha Vickers) – Classic Movie Review 8233

Director Edgar G Ulmer’s 1948 flashbacks driven film noir Ruthless stars Zachary Scott as Ruthless, charismatic financier Horace Woodruff Vendig, who stops at nothing to get to the head of the heap. But he reckons […]

Mar, 12

On the Basis of Sex **** (2018, Felicity Jones, Armie Hammer, Justin Theroux, Sam Waterston, Kathy Bates, Cailee Spaeny, Jack Reynor) – Movie Review

Felicity Jones is excellent in On the Basis of Sex (2018) as American pioneer female lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who battles for equal rights for women and reaches the top of her profession as U […]

Feb, 23

I’ll See You in My Dreams *** (1951, Doris Day, Danny Thomas, Frank Lovejoy) – Classic Movie Review 7689

The life of song lyric writer Gus Kahn (1886–1941) is seen through Hollywood’s typically rose-coloured glasses in the 1951 Warner Bros black and white musical biopic I’ll See You in My Dreams. Director Curtiz Michael […]

Oct, 21

How to Make an American Quilt *** (1995, Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Nelligan, Alfre Woodard) – Classic Movie Review 7432

Director Jocelyn Moorhouse’s 1995 American drama How to Make an American Quilt is based on the 1991 novel by Whitney Otto, with a screenplay by Jane Anderson, and stars Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Nelligan and Alfre Woodard. It was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for […]

Aug, 11

High Barbaree ** (1947, Van Johnson, June Allyson, Thomas Mitchell, Marilyn Maxwell, Cameron Mitchell, Claude Jarman Jr, Henry Hull) – Classic Movie Review 6806

Although director Jack Conway’s 1947 MGM adventure is based on the story by the Mutiny on the Bounty authors Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, it is a drab desert island fantasy. Van Johnson stars […]

Mar, 15

Gangster No 1 ** (2000, Malcolm McDowell, David Thewlis, Paul Bettany, Saffron Burrows, Kenneth Cranham, Jamie Foreman, Eddie Marsan) – Classic Movie Review 659

A ruthless middle-aged English hoodlum reflects on his life of crime, and how he rose from young hardman in small-time crime in Swinging 60’s London to being boss of the gang. This repellently bloodsoaked British gangster […]

Jan, 09

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