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Movie Reviews by Isabel Quigly - Page 3 of 5

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Review of A Farewell to Arms (1957)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 17 Jul 2018

This attempt to make the audience feel what the lovers were feeling failed because even to the least experienced in love it was plainly an…

Review of The Way West (1967)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 17 Jul 2018

The Way West is made with spirit and feeling and, if it has all the old stuff in it, it also has three rock-like old-timers showing their -…

Review of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 16 Jul 2018

With all the Ford requirements and the Ford mystique, including John Wayne and James Stewart off- setting each other's archetypal physiques,…

Review of Gone with the Wind (1939)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 16 Jul 2018

For anyone older who wants a reminiscent trip into the early war years, and how it felt to look at someone else's high-coloured war when you…

Review of A Taste of Honey (1961)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 16 Jul 2018

This, of course, is what a film ought to make you feel: that it was conceived in cinematic terms…

Review of Black Orpheus (1959)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 16 Jul 2018

This is an attractive boy-meets-girl story and no more, with everything full of charm, but slow, deathly slow and repetitive till the charm…

Review of The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 16 Jul 2018

Some of the jokes may be elderly, but some humour keeps well, like Christmas pudding : my favourite Western chestnut, for instance, the hotel…

Review of Mamma Roma (1962)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 16 Jul 2018

It almost inevitably dis- appoints, one is tempted to a bit of hindsight and reassessment…

Review of The Barbarian and the Geisha (1958)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 16 Jul 2018

Sincere, devout, expensive-looking and in result quite dreadful; attempting realism and achieving only the pastel prettiness of a badly-printed…

Review of The Pink Panther (1963)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 16 Jul 2018

A comedy-thriller of unusual sprightliness and style, is the credits, a sort of bonus cartoon thrown in to put you in a good mood for the rest…

Review of Behold a Pale Horse (1964)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 16 Jul 2018

Fred Zinnemann's Behold a Pale Horse, from a novel by Emeric Pressburger, isn't pretentious but just dull: dully, creakingly made…

Review of The Naked Edge (1961)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 16 Jul 2018

A kind of Hitchcock parody, with even the Hitchcockian publicity stunts about not giving away the ending and tricks of Hitch-style surprise,…

Review of Wild Strawberries (2012)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 15 Jul 2018

Wild Strawberries is to my mind a far more complete and interesting film than the much over- praised Seventh Seal, for the simple reason that…

Review of Paris Blues (1961)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 15 Jul 2018

Paris Blues has something of his old intelligence and liking for authenticity…

Review of Wild Strawberries (1957)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 15 Jul 2018

Wild Strawberries is to my mind a far more complete and interesting film than the much over- praised Seventh Seal, for the simple reason that…

Review of The Naked and the Dead (1958)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 15 Jul 2018

A good, appropriately ape-like cast working through two hours and ten minutes to a moral and moderately happy ending that looks (when you compare…

Review of Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 15 Jul 2018

The whole film is so indubit- ably, exuberantly recommendable (for aunts…

Review of Pork Chop Hill (1959)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 15 Jul 2018

Corny characterisation makes it a bore; the makers' attitude makes it a puzzle…

Review of The Hangman (1959)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 15 Jul 2018

A tribute to its absurd direction, for the cast is a good tough one, and given half a chance ought to do twice as much…

Review of Jules and Jim (1962)

By Isabel Quigly (94) for The Spectator (1,162) on 12 Jul 2018

What I chiefly remember about this film is its images of delight, its occasional sense of piercing, incredible happiness, a radiance that overlays…

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