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- Dangerous Cargo ** (1954, Jack Watling, Susan Stephen, Karel Stepanek, Terence Alexander) – Classic Movie Review 13,261
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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
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- Guns of Darkness ** (1962, David Niven, Leslie Caron, James Robertson Justice, David Opatoshu) – Classic Movie Review 13,255
- Walk on Water **** (2004, Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters) – Classic Movie Review 13,254
- 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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Basic * (2003, John Travolta, Connie Nielsen, Samuel L Jackson, Giovanni Ribisi, Brian Van Holt) – Classic Movie Review 2961
Director John McTiernan’s all-too-basic 2003 thriller stars John Travolta and Connie Nielsen as DEA drug agents who investigate deaths in the American army. The deaths seem to involve a sadistic sergeant, played by Samuel L Jackson. […]
The Giant of Marathon [La battaglia di Maratona] *** (1959, Steve Reeves, Mylène Demongeot, Sergio Fantoni) – Classic Movie Review 2904
Director Jacques Tourneur’s engaging 1959 swashbuckling sword-and-sandal historical adventure is an American-Italian-French co-production, involving Titanus, Galatea and MGM. It is filmed at the Titanus studios in Rome. A suddenly incredibly popular and busy Steve Reeves, […]
Queen and Country **** (2014, Callum Turner, Caleb Landry Jones, David Thewlis, Richard E Grant, Pat Shortt, Sinéad Cusack) – Movie Review
Writer-director John Boorman’s sequel to his semi-autobiographical charmer Hope and Glory (1987) is an old-fashioned, civilised pleasure. Callum Turner stars as the grown up 19-year-old Bill Rohan who is drafted into the army, does basic training […]
Gunga Din ***** (1939, Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jnr, Sam Jaffe) – Classic Movie Review 2439
Director George Stevens’s stirring 1939 movie Gunga Din was RKO Radio Pictures’ biggest movie up till that time. It is a hugely entertaining North West Frontier adventure yarn based loosely on Rudyard Kipling’s poem. Cary […]
Julius Caesar **** (1953, John Gielgud, Marlon Brando, James Mason, Louis Calhern, Greer Garson, Deborah Kerr, Edmond O’Brien) – Classic Movie Review 2,383
Joseph L Mankiewicz’s fine 1953 Hollywood film of Shakespeare’s Roman play Julius Caesar assembles a grand line-up of real actors in John Gielgud, Marlon Brando, James Mason, Louis Calhern and Edmond O’Brien. Writer-director Joseph L […]
Viva Zapata! **** (1952, Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn) – Classic Movie Review 2382
Buried under a big moustache and a big hat, Marlon Brando may be very oddly, indeed uncomfortably, cast as the Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata in director Elia Kazan’s 1952 historical drama biopic. But nevertheless Brando […]
Mulan **** (1998, voices of Ming-Na Wen, Eddie Murphy, B D Wong, Donny Osmond, Harvey Fierstein, June Foray, Marni Nixon, Pat Morita, James Hong, George Takei, Soon-Tek Oh) – Classic Movie Review 2219
Directors Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook’s likeable, intriguing and attractively different 1998 Walt Disney animated feature retells an old Chinese folk tale about the story of Mulan (voice of Ming-Na Wen), a young Chinese maiden who learns that […]