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- The Thirteenth Hour *** (1947, Richard Dix, Karen Morley, John Kellogg, Jim Bannon, Regis Toomey) – Classic Movie Review 13,256
- Guns of Darkness ** (1962, David Niven, Leslie Caron, James Robertson Justice, David Opatoshu) – Classic Movie Review 13,255
- Walk on Water **** (2004, Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters) – Classic Movie Review 13,254
- The Secret of the Whistler *** (1946, Richard Dix, Leslie Brooks, Michael Duane, Mary Currier, Mona Barrie, Claire Du Brey) – Classic Movie Review 13,253
- Kiss the Boys Goodbye **½ (1941, Don Ameche, Mary Martin, Oscar Levant) – Classic Movie Review 13,252
- Forbidden Cargo ** (1954, Nigel Patrick, Elizabeth Sellars, Terence Morgan, Jack Warner, Greta Gynt, Joyce Grenfell, Theodore Bikel) – Classic Movie Review 13,251
- Voice of the Whistler **½ (1945, Richard Dix, Lynn Merrick, Rhys Williams, James Cardwell) – Classic Movie Review 13,250
- Liuben *** (2023, Dimitar Nikolov, Bojidar Iankov Asenov, Dimitar Banenkin, David de Gea, Stefan Denolyubov, Ramón Esquinas, Stoyan Radev, Antonia San Juan) – Classic Movie Review 13,249
- The Power of the Whistler *** (1945, Richard Dix, Janis Carter, Jeff Donnell) – Classic Movie Review 13,248
- Bond Street ** (1948, Jean Kent, Roland Young, Kathleen Harrison, Derek Farr, Hazel Court, Ronald Howard) – Classic Movie Review 13,247
Articles
Flame of Barbary Coast ** (1945, John Wayne, Ann Dvorak, Joseph Schildkraut) – Classic Movie Review 6745
Producer-director Joseph Kane’s sluggish low-action 1945 Republic studios Western is based on a story by Prescott Chaplin and stars John Wayne, Ann Dvorak and Joseph Schildkraut. It was nominated for two Oscars: Best Music, Scoring of a […]
Dakota ** (1945, John Wayne, Vera Ralston, Walter Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 6744
Producer-director Joseph Kane’s robustly performed, competently handled but unfocused and unexciting 1945 Republic studios Western stars John Wayne, Vera [Hruba] Ralston and Walter Brennan. John Wayne stars as sagebrush drifter John Devlin, who falls for […]
Vigil in the Night *** (1940, Carole Lombard, Anne Shirley, Brian Aherne) – Classic Movie Review 6,742
The 1940 romantic drama film Vigil in the Night stars screen comedienne Carole Lombard, who is outstanding in a serious role as Anne Lee, a devoted young nurse in an English hospital. Director George Stevens’s […]
Vigilante Force *** (1976, Kris Kristofferson, Jan-Michael Vincent, Victoria Principal, Bernadette Peters, Brad Dexter, Judson Prat) – Classic Movie Review 6740
The Seventies low-budget American satirical action film Vigilante Force (1976) is written and directed by George Armitage, who says producer Gene Corman came to him with just the title and he did the rest. ‘It was a good shoot, […]
Hooper *** (1978, Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jan-Michael Vincent, Brian Keith, John Marley, James Best, Adam West, Robert Klein) – Classic Movie Review 6739
Director Hal Needham’s amiable 1978 action adventure comedy is a very typical Seventies vehicle for Burt Reynolds, re-teamed with his Smokey and the Bandit (1977) co-star Sally Field and its director Needham (a former Hollywood stuntman). […]
D.O.A. *** (1988, Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, Charlotte Rampling, Daniel Stern) – Classic Movie Review 6676
The 1950 cult classic film noir crime thriller D.O.A. was remade in Australia in 1969 as Color Me Dead, directed by Eddie Davis, before this 1988 D.O.A. remake, directed Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton and starring Dennis […]
The Bounty **** (1984, Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox, Daniel Day-Lewis, Bernard Hill, Liam Neeson) – Classic Movie Review 6593
The Bounty (1984) was originally a project for David Lean, who started to work again with screen-writer Robert Bolt on an ambitious two-part movie about the mutiny on the Bounty towards the end of the […]