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The Rains of Ranchipur * (1955, Lana Turner, Richard Burton, Fred MacMurray, Michael Rennie, Joan Caulfield, Eugenie Leontovich) – Classic Movie Review 8129

Director Jean Negulesco’s lumbering and uninspired 1955 The Rains of Ranchipur is a slow and slapdash retread of 1939’s The Rains Came, with the young Richard Burton all at sea, miscast in Tyrone Power’s old […]

Feb, 13

80,000 Suspects *** (1963, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Yolande Donlan, Cyril Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 7022

Writer-director Val Guest’s realist 1963 British drama is based on Trevor Dudley Smith [Elleston Trevor]’s novel The Pillars of Midnight and tells an intriguing story set in Bath, Somerset, England, at the time of a smallpox […]

May, 09

Vigil in the Night *** (1940, Carole Lombard, Anne Shirley, Brian Aherne) – Classic Movie Review 6,742

The 1940 romantic drama film Vigil in the Night stars screen comedienne Carole Lombard, who is outstanding in a serious role as Anne Lee, a devoted young nurse in an English hospital. Director George Stevens’s […]

Feb, 26

The Painted Veil *** (1934, Greta Garbo, Herbert Marshall, George Brent) – Classic Movie Review 5319

Director Richard Boleslawski’s 1934 romantic drama stars the great Greta Garbo, unique Thirties superstar, who graces this plush but soapy drama with her lustrous presence in a lesser vehicle but still interesting from her best […]

Apr, 19

The Prisoner of Shark Island **** (1936, Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart, Joyce Kay, Claude Gillingwater, Douglas Wood, Harry Carey, Paul Fix, John Carradine) – Classic Movie Review 4679

Director John Ford’s 1936 historical drama makes a useful change of pace for the Westerns director, as he deals with his humanitarian tale of the unfair sentencing to life imprisonment in jail of Doctor Samuel […]

Nov, 21

The Plague of the Zombies *** (1966, André Morell, Jacqueline Pearce, John Carson, Diane Clare, Brook Williams) – Classic Movie Review 3303

André Morell stars as Sir James Forbes, the old professor who sets about to investigate The Plague of the Zombies (1966), and Jacqueline Pearce (aka Servalan) plays Alice Thompson, who turns out to be an […]

Jan, 30

Panic in the Streets ***** (1950, Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jack Palance) – Classic Movie Review 2070

Director Elia Kazan’s thought-provoking New Orleans 1950 film noir chase thriller is sizzlingly raw and realistic. It stars Richard Widmark as a medical-health-official doctor and Paul Douglas as a world-weary police captain who lead a life-or-death […]

Jan, 11

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