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- The Return of the Whistler **½ (1948, Michael Duane, Lenore Aubert, Richard Lane) – Classic Movie Review 13,259
- Steamboat Round the Bend **** (1935, Will Rogers, Anne Shirley, Eugene Pallette) – Classic Movie Review 13,258
- In Old Kentucky *** (1935, Will Rogers, Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson, Dorothy Wilson, Russell Hardie, Louise Henry, Charles Sellon) – Classic Movie Review 13,257
- 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
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- 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
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The Gift Horse [Glory at Sea] *** (1952, Trevor Howard, Richard Attenborough, Sonny Tufts, James Donald, Joan Rice, Bernard Lee, Dora Bryan) – Classic Movie Review 8500
Director Compton Bennett’s 1952 black and white war adventure drama The Gift Horse [Glory at Sea] stars Trevor Howard as disliked ship’s captain Lieutenant Commander Hugh Alginon Fraser, who struggles with his crew but wins […]
The Dancing Masters *** (1943, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Trudy Marshall, Trudy Marshall, Robert Bailey, Margaret Dumont, Matt Briggs, Allan Lane, Robert Mitchum) – Classic Movie Review 8497
Though director Malcolm [Mal] St Clair’s 1943 comedy The Dancing Masters is not the best of Laurel and Hardy, there is plenty of busy story taken at a fast lick and Stan and Ollie are […]
Jitterbugs *** (1943, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Vivian Blaine) – Classic Movie Review 8496
Director Malcolm [Mal] St Clair’s 1943 Jitterbugs is an excellent late-period Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy comedy, their best at 20th Century Fox after parting company with producer Hal Roach. Ollie pretends to be a […]
Tarzan’s Secret Treasure ***(1941, Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O’Sullivan, Johnny Sheffield) – Classic Movie Review 8056
Director Richard Thorpe’s 1941 Tarzan’s Secret Treasure is an efficient and entertaining jungle adventure caper, re-uniting Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O’Sullivan for their fifth film together as Tarzan and Jane, and bristling with tongue-in-cheek fun […]
The Sheltering Sky *** (1990, Debra Winger, John Malkovich, Campbell Scott) – Classic Movie Review 7834
Debra Winger and John Malkovich play an American couple, playwright Kit Moresby and her husband composer Port Moresby, travelling in Morocco in 1947, who go abroad to revitalise their relationship but instead face physical and moral […]
Stan & Ollie **** (2018, Steve Coogan, John C Reilly, Shirley Henderson, Nina Arianda, Danny Huston, Rufus Jones) – Movie Review
Stan & Ollie (2018) is a labour of love, a loving tribute to Laurel and Hardy, with brilliant impersonations of the duo by Steve Coogan and John C Reilly, and clever re-creations of their routines, songs […]
Attack Force Z *** (1981, John Phillip Law, Mel Gibson, Sam Neill, Chris Haywood, John Waters) – Classic Movie Review 7333
Director Tim Burstall’s 1981 action adventure Attack Force Z is short and sharp, with good work from a cast headed by the unfairly fading American star John Phillip Law (once the archangel in Barbarella) as […]