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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
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Free State of Jones **** (2016, Matthew McConaughey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mahershala Ali) – Movie Review
Matthew McConaughey stars as disillusioned Confederate army deserter Newton Knight, a defiant Southern farmer who returns to Mississippi and leads a militia of fellow deserters, runaway slaves and women in an armed rebellion against the corrupt […]
The Keeping Room ***½ (2014, Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld, Muna Otaru, Sam Worthington, Kyle Soller) – Movie Review
Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld and Muna Otaru deliver exceptional performances in this fresh-seeming, women-led take on the classic Western written by Julia Hart and directed in Romania by Daniel Barber, the director of Harry Brown (2009). A trio […]
Little Women ***** (1933, Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Frances Dee, Jean Parker, Paul Lukas, Spring Byington, Edna May Oliver) – Classic Movie Review 4265
Director George Cukor steers this antique 1933 classic RKO movie of the novel by Louisa May Alcott safely and smoothly to the screen, with a great vintage cast to help him. Little Women (1933) won […]
Glory **** (1989, Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, Cary Elwes, Andre Braugher, John Finn, Jihmi Kennedy, Donovan Leitch Jr) – Classic Movie Review 3192
Director Edward Zwick’s distinguished, potent and highly emotional 1989 war movie about America’s first all-black volunteer company at the time of the American Civil War is, as it must be, a visceral experience as a violent and […]
Rio Lobo *** (1970, John Wayne, Jorge Rivero, Jennifer O’Neill, Victor French, Christopher Mitchum, Mike Henry, Jim Davis, Bill Williams, David Huddleston) – Classic Movie Review 3171
‘Give ‘Em Hell, John.’ Director Howard Hawks’s appealing, easy-going late-entry 1970 Western stars John Wayne as Colonel Cord McNally, the ageing Union officer who teams up with former Confederates in pursuit of a bootlegger, the traitor […]
Juarez **** (1939, Paul Muni, Claude Rains, Bette Davis, Gale Sondergaard, Brian Aherne, John Garfield) – Classic Movie Review 2704
Director William Dieterle’s stirring and starry 1939 historical epic stars Paul Muni as the Mexican lawyer, politician and revolutionary Benito Pablo Juárez García (21 March 1806 – 18 July 1872). Juárez resisted the French occupation […]
Shenandoah **** (1965, James Stewart, Doug McClure, Glenn Corbett) – Classic Movie Review 2047
Director Andrew V McLaglen’s exciting vehicle for the 57-year-old James Stewart, who was still a major star and box-office attraction in 1965, is a near-classic Western soap opera that mixes action and melodrama to good […]