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Texas Rangers Ride Again ** (1940, John Howard, Ellen Drew, Akim Tamiroff, May Robson, Broderick Crawford) – Classic Movie Review 9225

Director James P Hogan’s 1940 updated contemporary Western film Texas Rangers Ride Again is Paramount’s follow-up to its 1936 hit The Texas Rangers, though in fact it has little to do with it other than having […]

Jan, 05

Little Miss Marker ** (1980, Walter Matthau, Julie Andrews, Tony Curtis, Bob Newhart, Sara Stimson, Lee Grant) – Classic Movie Review 9194

Writer-director Walter Bernstein’s 1980 comedy Little Miss Marker stars an even more grumpy than usual Walter Matthau as Sorrowful Jones, the bookie blessed with a little bundle of cute trouble, The Kid (Sara Stimson), left […]

Dec, 27

The Shining Hour *** (1938, Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Margaret Sullavan, Robert Young, Fay Bainter) – Classic Movie Review 9188

Director Frank Borzage’s polished 1938 The Shining Hour is a shining hour or so (76 minutes, actually) of well-acted melodrama as a rich, upper-class farmer Henry Linden (Melvyn Douglas) takes his new nightclub dancing hoofer […]

Dec, 24

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island *** (1939, Sidney Toler, Cesar Romero, Pauline Moore) – Classic Movie Review 9051

Director Norman Foster’s 1939 comedy crime mystery thriller Charlie Chan at Treasure Island is a gripping series episode with a useful guest star turn from Cesar Romero as a conjurer called Rhadini helping Charlie Chan […]

Nov, 03

Charlie Chan in Reno *** (1939, Sidney Toler, Ricardo Cortez, Phyllis Brooks) – Classic Movie Review 9050

Director Norman Foster’s 1939 comedy crime mystery thriller Charlie Chan in Reno again stars Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan, who this time heads for Reno to clear innocent Hawaiian woman Mary Whitman (Pauline Moore), his […]

Nov, 03

Charlie Chan in Egypt *** (1935, Warner Oland, Pat Paterson, Thomas Beck) – Classic Movie Review 9045

Director Louis King’s 1935 comedy crime mystery thriller Charlie Chan in Egypt tells an entertainingly dotty tale of Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) discovering a couple of corpses and preventing a third death as he investigates […]

Nov, 02

Charlie Chan’s Secret ** (1936, Warner Oland, Rosina Lawrence, Charles Quigley) – Classic Movie Review 9038

Director Gordon Wiles’s modest 1935 mystery Charlie Chan’s Secret is set in a creepy old mansion in San Francisco, where Chan (Warner Oland) endures séances, apparitions, a hurled knife, and Herbert Mundin’s insufferable comic butler […]

Oct, 31

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