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Virginia ** (1941, Madeleine Carroll, Fred MacMurray, Sterling Hayden) – Classic Movie Review 11,095

Director Edward H Griffith’s 1941 too-serious, overlong Paramount Pictures romantic drama Technicolor film Virginia stars Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMurray. Virginian charmer Stonewall Jackson Elliott (Fred MacMurray) tries to persuade New York career gal Charlotte […]

Apr, 13

Crime Wave **** (1954, Gene Nelson, Sterling Hayden, Charles Bronson, Ted de Corsia, Phyllis Kirk, Jay Novello, Dub Taylor, James Bell, Richard Benjamin) – Classic Movie Review 3,231

The rousing 1954 cult film noir thriller Crime Wave stars Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Ted de Corsia and Charles Bronson. Director André de Toth’s rousing 1954 cult film noir thriller Crime Wave stars Gene Nelson […]

Jan, 04

The Star **** (1952, Bette Davis, Sterling Hayden, Natalie Wood) – Classic Movie Review 2747

In Stuart Heisler’s 1952 romantic and Hollywood drama The Star, Bette Davis boldly takes on a role written for her arch-rival Joan Crawford, who then turned it down, about Margaret ‘Maggie’ Elliot, a has-been star […]

Jul, 28

The Long Goodbye **** (1973, Elliott Gould, Sterling Hayden, Nina Van Pallandt) – Classic Movie Review 1881

Director Robert Altman’s 1973 neo-noir film of Raymond Chandler’s 1953 novel is expectedly updated to the Seventies but unexpectedly stars a laconic Elliott Gould as the hardboiled but chivalrous and honourable private eye Philip Marlowe, […]

Nov, 24

The Asphalt Jungle ***** (1950, Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Sam Jaffe, James Whitmore, Jean Hagen, Brad Dexter, John McIntire, Marilyn Monroe) – Classic Movie Review 1351

Co-writer/ director John Huston’s compulsively watchable, realistically staged classic 1950 film noir heist movie The Asphalt Jungle is a trail-blazing thriller with the criminal scam it focuses on invigoratingly portrayed as an inside tale from […]

Jun, 22

Prince Valiant **** (1954, Robert Wagner, James Mason, Janet Leigh, Debra Paget) – Classic Movie Review 1301

Three cheers for director Henry Hathaway’s vividly realized, brilliantly colourful 1954 sword-fighting historical adventure extravaganza. It stars a marvellous, on-form cast in Robert Wagner as a fresh-faced Viking Prince Valiant, James Mason as the villainous […]

Jun, 07

Zero Hour! *** (1957, Dana Andrews, Sterling Hayden, Linda Darnell) – Classic Movie Review 671

The 1957 film Zero Hour! screenplay is used almost verbatim for its much more famous spoof Airplane!, including the hero being named Ted Striker. Dana Andrews stars in the 1957 drama film Zero Hour! as […]

Jan, 11

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