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Hell Below Zero *** (1954, Alan Ladd, Joan Tetzel, Basil Sydney, Stanley Baker, Jill Bennett) – Classic Movie Review 6988

Alan Ladd had his second stay in Britain for director Mark Robson’s 1954 murder-at-sea mystery in which, as Duncan Craig, he becomes first mate on a whaler to find out why Judie Nordhal (Joan Tetzel)’s […]

May, 02

Ski Party ** (1965, Frankie Avalon, Dwayne Hickman, Deborah Walley, Yvonne Craig, Robert Q Lewis) – Classic Movie Review 6220

‘It’s where the HEs meet the SHEs on SKIs and there’s only one way to get warm!’ Director Alan Rafkin’s 1965 musical comedy stars Frankie Avalon, who gets off the beach and takes to the […]

Nov, 09

Extreme Ops ½ (2002, Devon Sawa, Rufus Sewell, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, Rupert Graves) – Classic Movie Review 5462

Devon Sawa, Rufus Sewell, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras and Rupert Graves star in director Christian Duguay’s handsome-looking but mindless 2002 movie that at least looks like it provided a great winter sports holiday for all concerned. But, […]

May, 16

Downhill Racer *** (1969, Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Camilla Sparv) – Classic Movie Review 4181

Director Michael Ritchie’s attractive feature film début is a sharp and involving realist-style look at competitive sport and news-gathering. Downhill Racer is packed full of exciting shots of skiing action, thanks to cameras attached to the […]

Aug, 16

The Big Show ** (1961, Esther Williams, Cliff Robertson, Robert Vaughn, Margia Dean, Nehemiah Persoff, David Nelson) – Classic Movie Review 3400

This familiar-feeling big top melodrama, with its old tale of circus family conflicts, is a sneaky reworking of themes from the big-city drama House of Strangers (1949) and the Western Broken Lance (1954) without actually […]

Feb, 22

Force Majeure [Turist] **** (2014, Johannes Kuhnke, Lisa Loven Kongsli) – Movie Review

Writer-director Ruben Östlund’s storming black comedy drama dissects a happy, well-to-do Scandinavian family on a skiing holiday in the French Alps who find themselves staring at an avalanche coming towards them during lunch on their resort’s […]

Apr, 09

Mr & Mrs Smith ***½ (1941, Carole Lombard, Robert Montgomery, Gene Raymond) – Classic Movie Review 572

Alfred Hitchcock’s single effort at making one of the screwball marital comedy movies that were so in vogue at the time, Mr & Mrs Smith (1941), was made as a personal favour to his friend […]

Dec, 24

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