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Outrage *** (1950, Mala Powers, Tod Andrews, Robert Clarke) – Classic Movie Review 10,660

Ida Lupino’s first credited co-writing and directing enterprise Outrage (1950) is a worthy, earnest tale of a raped woman called Ann Walton (Mala Powers) who understandably heads for a nervous breakdown after her terrible experience. […]

Dec, 12

The Bridges at Toko-Ri *** (1954, William Holden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March, Mickey Rooney) – Classic Movie Review 8479

James A Michener’s bestselling novel about the friendship of two Korean War jet pilots is strongly cast in director Mark Robson’s high-flying 1954 Paramount Pictures production The Bridges at Toko-Ri. The stars (especially William Holden […]

May, 18

Amityville 3 [Amityville 3: The Demon] [Amityville 3-D] ** (1983, Tony Roberts, Tess Harper, Robert Joy, Candy Clark, Meg Ryan, Lori Loughlin) – Classic Movie Review 8385

Now here’s a tall storey! A sceptical reporter called John Baxter (Tony Roberts) buys the infamous Long Island Amityville horror house to write an exposé on what he sees as the supposed supernatural events and […]

Apr, 22

At Gunpoint *** (1955, Fred MacMurray, Dorothy Malone, Walter Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 8136

Director Alfred L Werker’s 1955 Western for Allied Artists Pictures, At Gunpoint [Gunpoint], stars Fred MacMurray and Dorothy Malone, who give strong, intense portrayals. This handsomely mounted Western boasts a well-trodden plot about an upright, peaceful […]

Feb, 15

Pontiac Moon * (1994, Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, Ryan Todd) – Classic Movie Review 8017

Director Peter Medak’s 1994 Pontiac Moon is a juvenile road comedy drama with unrealised pretensions that casts Ted Danson as absent-minded-professor Washington Bellamy, a dad who takes his young kid Andy (Ryan Todd) off in the […]

Jan, 15

The Brave Bulls *** (1951, Mel Ferrer, Miroslava, Anthony Quinn) – Classic Movie Review 6353

Director Robert Rossen’s intriguing 1951 made-in-Mexico romantic bullfight drama stars Mel Ferrer as matador Luis Bello, who is knee deep in devastating troubles. First he loses his confidence in the bull ring, after he nearly […]

Dec, 03

The Satan Bug **** (1965, George Maharis, Richard Basehart, Anne Francis, Dana Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 6252

Richard Basehart stars as the power-mad villain Dr Gregor Hoffman, who acquires a germ warfare lab’s mislaid bottle of a virus (The Satan Bug) that could destroy civilisation, in director John Sturges’s jolly 1965 crime, mystery, […]

Nov, 14

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