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Gold Is Where You Find It **½ (1938, George Brent, Olivia de Havilland, Claude Rains) – Classic Movie Review 10,094

Director Michael Curtiz’s ambitious 1938 Technicolor historical romantic drama Gold Is Where You Find It stars George Brent, Olivia de Havilland and Claude Rains in a story about a late 19th-century conflict in the Sacramento […]

Jul, 27

My Night with Maude [Ma Nuit Chez Maud] [My Night at Maud’s] **** (1969, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault) – Classic Movie Review 8426

The 1969 French charmer My Night with Maude [Ma Nuit Chez Maud] [My Night at Maud’s] is the fourth film of Eric Rohmer’s six Moral Tales (Contes Moreaux). It was nominated for two Oscars for […]

May, 02

Tycoon ** (1947, John Wayne, Laraine Day, Cedric Hardwicke, James Gleason, Judith Anderson, Anthony Quinn) – Classic Movie Review 6992

Director Richard Wallace’s 1947 movie stars John Wayne as Johnny Munroe, a youngish American railroad engineer taken on in South America to build a mountain railroad tunnel in a dangerous route through the Andes by tycoon Frederick […]

May, 03

Carson City *** (1952, Randolph Scott, Lucille Norman, Raymond Massey) – Classic Movie Review 6595

Director André de Toth’s 1952 Western Carson City stars Raymond Massey as its gentleman villain, Big Jack Davis, the wicked Virginian financier who tries to stop the tough hero, engineer Silent Jeff Kincaid (Scott) from building […]

Jan, 23

Fracture **** (2007, Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling, David Strathairn, Rosamund Pike, Embeth Davidtz, Billy Burke, Cliff Curtis, Fiona Shaw, Bob Gunton) – Classic Movie Review 6360

Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling crackle in the 2007 legal thriller Fracture as rich aeronautics engineer Ted Crawford, who has devised the perfect murder of his cheating wife, and Willy Beachum, the cocky young public […]

Dec, 06

Desire **** (1936, Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, John Halliday, William Frawley, Akim Tamiroff, Alan Mowbray) – Classic Movie Review 5409

‘LOVE WAS HER PRECIOUS LOOT!’ Marlene Dietrich stars in the 1936 American film Desire as cultivated sultry European gem thief Madeleine de Beaupré and she is paired with Gary Cooper as simple, down-home American automobile […]

May, 07

Spitfire ** (1934, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Young, Ralph Bellamy) – Classic Movie Review 3,940

Katharine Hepburn is a great actress, of course, but playing an illiterate hillbilly mountain girl is quite beyond her, especially one called Trigger Hicks! Director John Cromwell’s 1934 drama film Spitfire stars a miscast Katharine Hepburn, […]

Jun, 26

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