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Ian Coster

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Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) 95% EDIT “"Confessions of a Nazi Spy" will have the politically minded standing on their seats.” – London Evening Standard Jan 6, 2026 Full Review The Lady Eve (1941) 99% EDIT “Fonda does his stuff beautifully -- and so does Miss Stanwyck. It's her best part for a long time. ” – London Evening Standard Dec 29, 2022 Full Review Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) 97% EDIT “[Disney] proves that his animated drawings can entertain and amuse an audience for as long as a Garbo drama or a Cantor comedy. But to say... that his characters on the strength of their first long performance can challenge human actors is nonsense.” – London Evening Standard Dec 20, 2022 Full Review Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 97% EDIT “The film is full of good cameos. Harry Carey as the worldly-wise President of the Senate, Guy Kibbee as the weak governor, Eugene Pallette as a political bodyguard, Thomas Mitchell as a reporter --one of the who do not get socked on the nose by Smith.” – London Evening Standard Nov 9, 2022 Full Review The Shop Around the Corner (1940) 99% EDIT “The film Is light and gay and full of Lubitsch touches.” – London Evening Standard Nov 7, 2022 Full Review The Life of Emile Zola (1937) 92% EDIT “The Life of Emile Zola is sincere and fine and beautifully rounded by the direction of William Deterle. ” – London Evening Standard Aug 2, 2022 Full Review Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) 96% EDIT “Laughton, Gable and Tone are only three of 30 players who take one from the murk of London to the long, blue rollers of the Pacific in the brave and sadistic days of old. Mutiny on the Bounty, directed by Frank Lloyd, is a great film. ” – London Evening Standard Jul 27, 2022 Full Review How Green Was My Valley (1941) 93% EDIT “Here Hollywood, through director John Ford, gives almost a perfect picture of a Welsh village. How Green Was My Valley ranks with Love on the Dole and The Grapes of Wrath as an achievement in the craft of picture-making. ” – London Evening Standard Jul 26, 2022 Full Review Rebecca (1940) 98% EDIT “Hitch concentrates on telling the story. He tells it beautifully, but without the filmic asides for which he is celebrated.” – London Evening Standard Mar 24, 2022 Full Review The Great Ziegfeld (1936) 72% EDIT “Luise Rainer, the Viennese actress, is a risen star as Ziegfeld's first wife, Anna Held. Gay as a butterfly, temperamental as an April day, she is the outstanding actress in the film.” – London Evening Standard Dec 2, 2021 Full Review The Wizard of Oz (1939) 98% EDIT “One cannot say that this is a rival to Disney, but it is as near to fantasy as one can get with human actors... I am under the spell of Oz.” – London Evening Standard Oct 14, 2021 Full Review His Girl Friday (1940) 99% EDIT “Cary Grant gives the managing editor a fine, hard glitter. And Miss Russell is as good as she was in The Women as the girl reporter.” – London Evening Standard Oct 14, 2021 Full Review The Philadelphia Story (1940) 100% EDIT “Miss Hepburn is perfect as Tracy; Stewart and Grant and Howard make a happy contrast in suitors.” – London Evening Standard Jun 10, 2021 Full Review Chapayev (1934) EDIT “That Russian classic of 1934 shows its age but is still a fervent story of the carpenter who beat the Cossacks.” – London Evening Standard May 26, 2021 Full Review The Shanghai Gesture (1941) 83% EDIT “Josef Von Sternberg directed this poor tale with laborious and ineffectual care.” – London Evening Standard May 26, 2021 Full Review This Gun for Hire (1942) 94% EDIT “An excellent thriller.” – London Evening Standard May 26, 2021 Full Review Saboteur (1942) 81% EDIT “Finally, there's the great scene at the Statue of Liberty - one of Hitch's best inventions in a film which contains all he knows about the art of movie melodrama.” – London Evening Standard May 26, 2021 Full Review The Women (1939) 94% EDIT “Brilliantly witty.” – London Evening Standard May 24, 2021 Full Review
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