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Runaway Train *** (1985, Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca De Mornay) – Classic Movie Review 9481

Director Andrei Konchalovsky’s 1985 Cannon Group adventure movie Runaway Train is a solid but over-blown mythical action thriller, with outsize performances by Jon Voight and Eric Roberts as escaping prisoners on an out-of-control train speeding […]

Mar, 08

Out Cold ** (2001, Jason London, Lee Majors, Willie Garson, Zach Galifianakis, Flex Alexander, David Denman, A.J. Cook) – Classic Movie Review 8858

Four carefree snowboarders take on a big corporation bent on turning their favourite mountain, Bull Mountain, Alaska, into a posh ski resort. The hot score pounds along directors Brendan Malloy and Emmett Malloy’s surprisingly amiable […]

Aug, 23

Road to Utopia **** (1946, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour) – Classic Movie Review 6974

Director Hal Walker’s 1946 Road to Utopia is the fourth comedy film in the seven film ‘Road to …’ series, starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour, filmed in 1943 but not released until 1946, Road to Utopia received an […]

Apr, 28

White Fang *** (1936, Michael Whalen, Jean Muir, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charles Winninger, Slim Summerville, Thomas Beck) – Classic Movie Review 6368

Director David Butler’s semi-classic 1936 adventure is a successful, fast-moving and handsomely filmed version of the Jack London story, with Jean Muir and Thomas Beck as siblings Sylvia Burgess and Hal who are bequeathed a mine. […]

Dec, 07

White Fang *** (1991, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ethan Hawke, Seymour Cassel, Susan Hogan, James Remar, Bill Moseley) – Classic Movie Review 6367

Director Randal Kleiser’s very popular, smoothly efficient and extremely good-looking 1991 Disney film version of the old Jack London story stars the young Ethan Hawke, who gives an appealing performance as young gold hunter Jack […]

Dec, 07

North to Alaska *** (1960, John Wayne, Stewart Granger, Fabian Forte, Capucine, Ernie Kovacs) – Classic Movie Review 5957

Director Henry Hathaway’s 1960 Northern Western blockbuster North to Alaska is bright, brisk and breezy old-style comedic action adventure with John Wayne and Stewart Granger well cast as turn-of-the-last-century gold-miner prospectors, Sam McCord and George […]

Aug, 22

The Silver Horde *** (1930, Evelyn Brent, Louis Wolheim, Joel McCrea, Raymond Hatton, Jean Arthur, Gavin Gordon) – Classic Movie Review 5538

So the advertising is a major help here. What we have in director George Archainbaud’s creaky but enjoyable 1930 romantic adventure movie is ‘Rex Beach’s Sledge-Fisted Romance of the Great Alaskan Salmon Run.’ Wallace Smith adapts the […]

Jun, 03

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