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Dersu Uzala ***** (1975, Maksim Munzuk, Yuriy Solomin, Mikhail Bychkov) – Classic Movie Review 10,633

Director Akira Kurosawa’s 1975 USSR-Japanese co-production, the adventure biographical drama Dersu Uzala, won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film (Soviet Union) in 1976. Young imperial Russian officer, Captain Vladimir Arsenev (Yuriy Solomin), sent by […]

Dec, 06

The Far Horizons ** (1955, Fred MacMurray, Charlton Heston, Donna Reed, Barbara Hale) – Classic Movie Review 10,632

Director Rudolph Maté’s rousing 1955 historical romantic Western adventure The Far Horizons is based on the 1943 novel Sacajawea of the Shoshones by Della Gould Emmons, and stars Fred MacMurray, Charlton Heston, Donna Reed and Barbara Hale. […]

Dec, 05

The Lost World **** (1925, Bessie Love, Lewis Stone, Wallace Beery, Lloyd Hughes) – Classic Movie Review 5121

In the first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic novel, Wallace Beery stars as explorer Professor Challenger, who claims that dinosaurs still rule the Earth in the Amazon. And so, as no one […]

Mar, 08

Scott of the Antarctic ***** (1948, John Mills, James Robertson Justice, Derek Bond, Diana Churchill, Kenneth More, John Gregson, Christopher Lee) – Classic Movie Review 2828

Director Charles Frend’s 1948 British historical adventure classic provides the showcase for one of John Mills’s most admired, tightly reined-in heroic performances as the quixotic British explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott. Mills’s great performance brings […]

Aug, 18

Animal Crackers ***** (1930, Marx Brothers) – Classic Movie Review 1471

‘One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don’t know.’ – Groucho Marx. The four Marx Brothers Groucho, Chico, Harpo and Zeppo are on tip-top funny form […]

Jul, 25

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