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Soldiers Three *** (1951, Stewart Granger, Walter Pidgeon, David Niven, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 11,170

Director Tay Garnett’s 1951 MGM black and white film Soldiers Three is a minor-league, though entertaining Gunga Din-style comedy adventure tale, derived from Rudyard Kipling short stories, with Indian location shots from Kim (1950) helping things […]

May, 05

The Far Horizons ** (1955, Fred MacMurray, Charlton Heston, Donna Reed, Barbara Hale) – Classic Movie Review 10,632

Director Rudolph Maté’s rousing 1955 historical romantic Western adventure The Far Horizons is based on the 1943 novel Sacajawea of the Shoshones by Della Gould Emmons, and stars Fred MacMurray, Charlton Heston, Donna Reed and Barbara Hale. […]

Dec, 05

The Personal History of David Copperfield ** (2019, Dev Patel, Hugh Laurie, Tilda Swinton, Peter Capaldi, Ben Whishaw) – Movie Review

Tilda Swinton and Hugh Laurie run away with the acting honours in co-writer / director Armando Iannucci’s misguided reimagining of the Charles Dickens classic novel as a raucous romp, with Dev Patel working hard, earnestly […]

Feb, 20

Man in the Wilderness **** (1971, Richard Harris, John Huston, Henry Wilcoxon, John Bindon, Prunella Ransome, Henry Wilcoxon, Ben Carruthers, Percy Herbert, Dennis Waterman) – Classic Movie Review 9122

Director Richard C Sarafian’s 1971 adventure Man in the Wilderness is a gory but involving great outdoors tale propelled with a rousing turn from Richard Harris as Zachary Bass, a beaver hunter marooned in the […]

Dec, 03

Song of Scheherazade ** (1947, Yvonne De Carlo, Brian Donlevy, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Eve Arden, Phillip Reed) – Classic Movie Review 8832

Writer-director Walter Reisch’s Universal International Pictures’ amiably soppy and campy Technicolor extravaganza Song of Scheherazade (1947) is a fictionalised biopic of the Russian composer Nikolai ‘Nicky’ Rimsky-Korsakov (Jean-Pierre Aumont), who finds his muse in dancing lady […]

Aug, 15

Walker *** (1987, Ed Harris, Richard Masur, René Auberjonois, Marlee Matlin, Peter Boyle) – Classic Movie Review 8027

Director Alex Cox’s 1987 political adventure Walker is about a real-life 1850s American mercenary leader called William Walker (Ed Harris) who is funded to invade Nicaragua, join up with the liberal forces and defeat the corrupt […]

Jan, 18

Sea Devils *** (1953, Yvonne De Carlo, Rock Hudson, Maxwell Reed, Bryan Forbes) – Classic Movie Review 7842

Director Raoul Walsh’s 1953 romantic historical action adventure drama Sea Devils stars Rock Hudson as Gilliatt, the swashbuckling fisherman cum smuggler who falls for beautiful English spy Drucette (Yvonne De Carlo) and sets her on […]

Nov, 27

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