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Carry On Admiral [The Ship Was Loaded] ** (1957, David Tomlinson, Peggy Cummins, Brian Reece, Eunice Gayson, A E Matthews, Ronald Shiner, Joan Sims, Alfie Bass) – Classic Movie Review 8964

Director Val Guest’s frenetic 1957 British comedy Carry On Admiral [The Ship Was Loaded] is not a bona fide Carry On movie but something pretty similar, based on Ian Hay and Stephen King-Hall’s stage farce […]

Oct, 06

Watch Your Stern *** (1960, Kenneth Connor, Eric Barker, Leslie Phillips, Joan Sims, Sid James, Hattie Jacques, Spike Milligan, Eric Sykes) – Classic Movie Review 8344

Director Gerald Thomas’s 1961 British black and white comedy Watch Your Stern stars Kenneth Connor as the extraordinarily incompetent Ordinary Seaman Blissworth, who impresses admiral Sir Humphrey Pettigrew (Noel Purcell) by pretending to be the […]

Apr, 08

The Gallant Hours *** (1960, James Cagney, Dennis Weaver, Ward Costello, Vaughn Taylor, Richard Jaeckel, Les Tremayne) – Classic Movie Review 6779

Director Robert Montgomery’s 1960 semi-documentary war movie features a solid, dignified, tightly reined-in performance from James Cagney as Fleet Admiral William F ‘Bull’ Halsey Jr, American South Pacific commander in World War Two. It is […]

Mar, 08

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea ***½ (1961, Walter Pidgeon, Robert Sterling, Joan Fontaine, Peter Lorre, Barbara Eden, Michael Ansara, Frankie Avalon, Henry Daniell, Regis Toomey) – Classic Movie Review 4860

Co-writer/ producer/ director Irwin Allen’s jolly 1961 sci-fi action adventure disaster movie tells his story about an atomic submarine sent to fix a hole in the Earth’s core. Walter Pidgeon plays the US Navy commander, […]

Jan, 08

Hit the Deck *** (1955, Tony Martin, Jane Powell, Ann Miller, Debbie Reynolds, Walter Pidgeon, Kay Armen, Vic Damone, Russ Tamblyn, Gene Raymond) – Classic Movie Review 4776

Director Roy Rowland’s 1955 movie is a happy remake of the 1930 musical comedy movie version of Hubert Osborne and Vincent Youmans’s hit 1927 Broadway show Shore Leave. It stars Tony Martin, Jane Powell, Ann Miller, […]

Dec, 08

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock *** (1984, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Christopher Lloyd) – Classic Movie Review 1920

Leonard Nimoy takes over the helm as director of the third movie in 1984, in which the starship USS Enterprise is scheduled for scuttling, Bones McCoy (DeForest Kelley) is suffering from a Vulcan mindmeld, the […]

Dec, 06

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan **** (1982, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Ricardo Montalban, Paul Winfield, Kirstie Alley) – Classic Movie Review 1919

The whole old crew of the USS Starship Enterprise are all aboard for director Nicholas Meyer’s tighter, tauter and generally much improved 1982 first sequel to 1979’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture. This time Ricardo […]

Dec, 06

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