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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? ***½ (1975, director Philippe Mora) – Classic Movie Review 11,653
The 1975 documentary film Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? is an extremely well done and enjoyable view of America in the Great Depression era, built up (by French Australian film director Philippe Mora, working […]
Hard Times [The Streetfighter] **** (1975, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Jill Ireland, Strother Martin) – Classic Movie Review 6036
Director Walter Hill’s distinguished 1975 action movie is one of Charles Bronson’s best films. Bronson stars in a tailor-made, ideal role as the strong, silent type Chaney, a drifter turned bare-knuckle boxer slugging his way […]
Emperor of the North Pole [Emperor of the North] **** (1973, Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Keith Carradine) – Classic Movie Review 5943
The splendid 1973 movie Emperor of the North Pole [Emperor of the North] is a spectacular, violently tough slap-up Thirties Oregon, Depression-set action thriller from producer-director Robert Aldrich, with a great script by Christopher Knopf, […]
Two Bits *** (1995, Al Pacino, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Jerry Barone) – Classic Movie Review 5860
‘You’re never too old to believe in a dream. Or too young to make one come true!’ Director James Foley’s and writer Joseph Stefano’s forgotten heart-warmer fits in between Foley’s Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) and Fear (1996). In the […]
Cinderella Man ** (2005, Russell Crowe, Renée Zellweger, Craig Bierko, Paddy Considine, Bruce McGill) – Classic Movie Review 4331
Russell Crowe brings on the brawn as Thirties boxer Jim Braddock, who falls on hard times, but he seizes his second chance in 1934 when a champ needs a stand-in fighter. Punchy in the knockout […]
Monsieur Verdoux **** (1947, Charles Chaplin, Martha Raye, William Frawley, Marilyn Nash, Mady Correll) – Classic Movie Review 2409
Orson Welles approached Charles Chaplin with the idea of Chaplin starring in a film based on the celebrated French murderer, Bluebeard Henri Landru. Chaplin dropped out of Welles’s project but soon thought the story would […]
The Grapes of Wrath ***** (1940, Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine) – Classic Movie Review 1825
Best Director John Ford and Best Supporting Actress Jane Darwell both won essential Oscars for this stupendous 1940 film of the John Steinbeck story about the odyssey of the Joads. They are a poor Oklahoma farming […]
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