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Nevada ** (1944, Robert Mitchum, Anne Jeffreys, Guinn ‘Big Boy’ Williams, Richard Martin) – Classic Movie Review 11,506

The 27-year-old Robert Mitchum has his first lead role as Jim Lacy in director Edward Killy’s 1944 RKO Radio Pictures B-Western movie Nevada, based on a Zane Grey’s popular novel. Mitchum is billed as ‘Introducing Bob Mitchum […]

Aug, 22

Lady by Choice *** (1934, Carole Lombard, May Robson, Roger Pryor, Walter Connolly) – Classic Movie Review 9927

Incomparable 1930s players Carole Lombard and May Robson delight in director David Burton’s bubbly 1934 vintage comedy Lady by Choice about a fame-hungry fan-dancer, Alabam Lee (Lombard), who takes in a mean, drunken, down-at-heel old […]

Jun, 18

Charlie Chan in Reno *** (1939, Sidney Toler, Ricardo Cortez, Phyllis Brooks) – Classic Movie Review 9050

Director Norman Foster’s 1939 comedy crime mystery thriller Charlie Chan in Reno again stars Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan, who this time heads for Reno to clear innocent Hawaiian woman Mary Whitman (Pauline Moore), his […]

Nov, 03

The Big Town *** (1987, Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, Tommy Lee Jones ) – Classic Movie Review 7312

The handsome young Matt Dillon is all cool Eighties style that proves perfect for his role as the cocky Fifties small town boy J C Cullen, who comes Chicago to work as a professional gambler and […]

Jul, 19

The Grissom Gang **** (1971, Kim Darby, Scott Wilson, Tony Musante, Irene Dailey, Robert Lansing, Connie Stevens, Ralph Waite, Wesley Addy) – Classic Movie Review 4.786

Kim Darby stars in The Grissom Gang as a 1930s heiress who is kidnapped and comes under the spell of one of her captors (Scott Wilson). Robert Aldrich’s 1971 film of James Hadley Chase’s 1939 […]

Dec, 12

Guys and Dolls **** (1955, Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine) – Classic Movie Review 925

The four-Oscar-winning writer-director Joseph L Mankiewicz films one of Broadway’s finest, all-time-great shows, based on the famous short stories by Damon Runyon. He turns it into a genially pleasing, attractively easy-going, if none too cinematic […]

Mar, 17

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