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Venus Peter *** (1989, Ray McAnally, David Hayman, Sinéad Cusack, Gordon R Strachan) – Classic Movie Review 12,024

Director Ian Sellar’s 1989 British drama film Venus Peter is set on a western isle of Scotland in the 1950s and stars Ray McAnally, David Hayman, Sinéad Cusack and Gordon R Strachan. Venus Peter is […]

Mar, 24

The Old Man and the Sea *** (1958, Spencer Tracy, Felipe Pazos, Harry Bellaver) – Classic Movie Review 9995

Director John Sturges’s 1958 adventure drama The Old Man and the Sea stars Spencer Tracy, who sailed into Best Actor Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for his portrait of The Old Man, the Ernest Hemingway […]

Jul, 03

Tiger Shark *** (1932, Edward G Robinson, Richard Arlen, Zita Johann, J Carrol Naish, Leila Bennett, Vince Barnett) – Classic Movie Review 9023

Tiger Shark (1932) is a love triangle story of the unhappy life and times of unhappy Portuguese tuna fisherman Mike Mascarenhas (Edward G Robinson), as Warner Bros merge elements from Moby Dick, Victorian romance and […]

Oct, 28

The Incredible Melting Man ** (1977, Alex Rebar, Burr DeBenning, Myron Healey) – Classic Movie Review 8578

Writer-director William Sachs’s amusingly silly and entertainingly horrible 1977 drive-in sci-fi-horror movie The Incredible Melting Man stars Alex Rebar as infected spaceman Steve West (aka The Incredible Melting Man of course), whose flesh melts incredibly […]

Jun, 10

Atlantis: The Lost Continent ** (1961, Sal Ponti, Joyce Taylor, John Dall, Edward Platt, William Smith, Frank DeKova, Jay Novello) – Classic Movie Review 7738

‘SIGHTS NEVER BEFORE SEEN – Adventure never before experienced!’ Fantasy-film producer-director George Pal’s 1961 sci-fi adventure Atlantis: The Lost Continent is based on a play by Sir Gerald Hargreaves and stars Anthony Hall, Joyce Taylor, […]

Nov, 01

Stromboli [Stromboli, Terra di Dio] **** (1949, Ingrid Bergman, Mario Vitale, Renzo Cesana) – Classic Movie Review 6522

Producer-director Roberto Rossellini’s beautiful, brooding and delicately done 1949 Italian neo-realist film tells his story about an attractive Lithuanian refugee called Karen (Ingrid Bergman) who marries a young Italian fisherman named Antonio (Mario Vitale) to escape […]

Jan, 05

The Big Fisherman * (1959, Howard Keel, Alexander Scourby, Susan Kohner, John Saxon, Martha Hyer, Herbert Lom) – Classic Movie Review 6206

Singer Howard Keel often proved a nice, effective actor, but here he is uncomfortably cast as Saint Peter, in the Walt Disney studio’s often tepid, sometimes incompetent 1959 drama based on Lloyd C Douglas’s once […]

Nov, 07

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