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The Lone Wolf Returns *** (1935, Melvyn Douglas, Gail Patrick, Tala Birell) – Classic Movie Review 6842

Columbia Pictures successfully revives the Lone Wolf jewel thief character created by Louis Joseph Vance in 1914 in the first of his series of eight novels, already the subject of nine movies, and casts Melvyn […]

Mar, 22 · in Uncategorized

Passport to Suez ** (1943, Warren William, Ann Savage, Eric Blore, Gavin Muir, Robert Stanford, Sheldon Leonard, Lloyd Bridges) – Classic Movie Review 6841

Director André De Toth’s 1943 thriller is a very passable, more than decently done Lone Wolf series entry, with Warren William back one more time in the last of his nine films as the jewel […]

Mar, 22 · in Uncategorized

The Plainsman ** (1966, Don Murray, Guy Stockwell, Abbie Dalton, Leslie Nielsen, Bradford Dillman, Henry Silva, Simon Oakland) – Classic Movie Review 6840

Don Murray stars as Wild Bill Hickok and Guy Stockwell plays Buffalo Bill Cody in director David Lowell Rich’s plush, handsome but dramatically rather tepid 1966 remake of the Cecil B DeMille Thirties vintage Western […]

Mar, 21

The Plainsman **** (1936, Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, James Ellison, Charles Bickford, Helen Burgess, Porter Hall, John Miljan) – Classic Movie Review 6839

Producer-director-showman Cecil B DeMille goes West in 1937 — and he does not take his history book along with him. But he does take a cast of thousands of Indians, lots of Paramount’s money, and […]

Mar, 21

Play Dirty **** (1969, Michael Caine, Nigel Davenport, Nigel Green, Harry Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 6838

Director André de Toth’s last movie is Play Dirty from 1969 and it stars Michael Caine as the British captain in charge of a gang of ex-con soldiers who must obliterate Nazi oil supplies deep […]

Mar, 21

Light in the Piazza **** (1962, Olivia de Havilland, Yvette Mimieux, George Hamilton, Rossano Brazzi, Barry Sullivan) – Classic Movie Review 6837

Director Guy Green’s tasteful and quite rousing 1962 British romantic drama Light in the Piazza is sweetly told, expertly made and neatly acted, and is notable for its extensive location shooting in Florence and Rome […]

Mar, 20

The Pleasure Seekers ** (1964, Ann-Margret, Anthony Franciosa, Carol Lynley) – Classic Movie Review 6836

Ann-Margret, Carol Lynley and Pamela Tiffin star as attractive young American holidaymakers who find husbands (Tony Franciosa, Gardner McKay and André Lawrence) and pretty views in Madrid in director Jean Negulesco’s tepid 1964 remake of […]

Mar, 20

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