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Hostile Guns ** (1967, George Montgomery, Yvonne De Carlo, Tab Hunter, Brian Donlevy, John Russell, Leo Gordon) – Classic Movie Review 11,112

Director R G Springsteen’s 1967 Technicolor and Techniscope Western film Hostile Guns stars George Montgomery as town marshal Sheriff Gid McCool, who conducts a coach of prisoners across the Texas plains to the state jail, […]

Apr, 19

Anna and the King ** (1999, Jodie Foster, Yun-Fat Chow, Bai Ling) – Classic Movie Review 10,678

Director Andy Tennant’s 1999 historical biopic Anna and the King stars Jodie Foster as widowed British schoolteacher Anna Leonowens, who goes to Bangkok in 1862 to rule the enormous brood of the stern King Mongkut […]

Dec, 17

Great Day in the Morning ** (1956, Virginia Mayo, Robert Stack, Ruth Roman, Alex Nicol, Raymond Burr) – Classic Movie Review 10,214

There are deep divisions down in Denver as both sides in the US Civil War try to get the gold, in Jacques Tourneur’s 1955 Great Day in the Morning, an over-serious Western that is full […]

Aug, 23

From the Earth to the Moon * (1958, Joseph Cotten, George Sanders, Debra Paget, Henry Daniell, Carl Esmond, Melville Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 7413

Director Byron Haskin’s 1958 From the Earth to the Moon is a pathetic attempt to film the Jules Verne sci-fi fantasy adventure novels De la Terre à la Lune (1865) and Autour de la Lune […]

Aug, 07

Champagne Charlie **** (1944, Tommy Trinder, Stanley Holloway, Betty Warren, Austin Trevor, Jean Kent, Guy Middleton, Frederick Piper, Harry Fowler) – Classic Movie Review 7080

Director Alberto Cavalcanti’s 1944 British comedy Champagne Charlie is lit up by its genius in providing perfect roles for Ealing Studios’ resident London comedians Trinder and Holloway in an original screenplay tale of rival music-hall singers […]

May, 22

Little Women **** (1949, June Allyson, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Lawford, Margaret O’Brien, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor, Rossano Brazzi, Lucile Watson, C Aubrey Smith) – Classic Movie Review 4266

Director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1949 movie Little Women is an expensive and colourful remake of director George Cukor’s 1933 classic Little Women, based on Louisa May Alcott’s famous novel about four sisters finding romance. The lovely […]

Aug, 29

The Amazing Captain Nemo ** (1978, José Ferrer, Horst Buchholz, Mel Ferrer, Burgess Meredith, Lynda Day George) – Classic Movie Review 3727

Director Alex March’s 1978 movie finds that it is up to José Ferrer to take over as Jules Verne’s character Captain Nemo from James Mason in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) and Robert Ryan in Captain Nemo […]

May, 20

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