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Captain Apache * (1971, Lee Van Cleef, Carroll Baker, Stuart Whitman) – Classic Movie Review 10,492

Lee Van Cleef, Carroll Baker and Stuart Whitman get to do some serious violence way out West in director Alexander Singer’s awkward and clunky 1971 UK Spain Western film Captain Apache, filmed in Spain. It […]

Nov, 02

The Private Files of J Edgar Hoover **** (1977, Broderick Crawford, James Wainwright, Michael Parks) – Classic Movie Review 10,241

Writer-producer-director Larry Cohen’s 1977 biographical drama The Private Files of J Edgar Hoover stars a notable cast headed by Broderick Crawford, José Ferrer, Michael Parks, Ronee Blakley, Rip Torn, Celeste Holm and Dan Dailey. He […]

Aug, 30

Silver River ** (1948, Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Thomas Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 10,215

Director Raoul Walsh’s 1948 Warner Bros romantic Western Silver River stars Errol Flynn, who takes on an unusual role as a cashiered ex-army cavalry cardsharp, Captain Mike McComb, who uses his winnings to build, and […]

Aug, 23

Canadian Bacon ** (1995, John Candy, Alan Alda, Rhea Perlman, Kevin Pollak, Rip Torn) – Classic Movie Review 8949

The good cast is mostly wasted in writer-director Michael Moore’s largely misfiring 1995 satire Canadian Bacon – but then it would have been much, much worse without them. Alan Alda is quite funny as the […]

Sep, 29

Wilson *** (1944, Alexander Knox, Charles Coburn, Cedric Hardwicke, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price) – Classic Movie Review 8647

Opportunity knocks for Alexander Knox, who grabs it to give a careful, painstaking and impressive star turn as US President Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), rising from president at Princeton to governor of New Jersey to […]

Jun, 28

The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear **** (1991, Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, O J Simpson, Robert Goulet, Richard Griffiths) – Classic Movie Review 8206

Director David Zucker’s brilliantly zany 1991 The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear is more of the same comic misadventures with the treasurable Leslie Nielsen back as the seriously inept LA cop Lieutenant Frank […]

Mar, 06

My Fellow Americans *** (1996, Jack Lemmon, James Garner, Dan Aykroyd, Lauren Bacall, Wilford Brimley, Sela Ward, John Heard) – Classic Movie Review 6541

Jack Lemmon and James Garner star as rival former US Presidents, who join up to expose the corrupt present President William Haney (Dan Aykroyd) after they become targets of a conspirator in his government. The duo set out […]

Jan, 09

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