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Friday the 13th Part 2 ** (1981, Betsy Palmer, Amy Steel, John Furey) – Classic Movie Review 8264

Steve Miner, the producer of part one Friday the 13th, directs the expected sequel Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981), a kind of rerun of the original slasher story, taking place five years later, in […]

Mar, 19

The Man from Utah ** (1934, John Wayne, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Polly Ann Young, Anita Campillo, Edward Peil Sr, Yakima Canutt, George Cleveland) – Classic Movie Review 8235

Young John Wayne sits tall in the saddle in director Robert N Bradbury’s 1934 The Man from Utah, another average, low-budget Thirties Western from the Duke. In the story and screenplay by Lindsley Parsons, Wayne […]

Mar, 13

Bulldog Drummond Escapes *** (1937, Ray Milland, Guy Standing, Heather Angel, Reginald Denny, Porter Hall, Fay Holden, E E Clive) – Classic Movie Review 8,191

The amusing 1937 American mystery thriller film Bulldog Drummond Escapes stars Ray Milland as Captain Hugh ‘Bulldog’ Drummond, who tries to save beautiful heiress Phyllis Clavering (Heather Angel) from a spy organisation. Paramount Pictures’ first […]

Mar, 02

Spider Baby or, the Maddest Story Ever Told *** (1967, Lon Chaney Jr, Carol Ohmart, Quinn K Redeker, Beverly Washburn, Jill Banner, Sid Haig, Mary Mitchel, Karl Schanzer, Mantan Moreland) – Classic Movie Review 7871

Writer-director Jack Hill’s 1967 black and white low-budget ($65,000) black horror comedy Spider Baby is one of those rare movies that has gone obscurity to cult status, so it is memorable if only just just for that, as well as for its incredible weirdness. It […]

Dec, 02

The New Frontier ** (1935, John Wayne, Muriel Evans, Warner Richmond, Al Bridge, Sam Flint) – Classic Movie Review 7162

John Wayne stars as quick-on-the-draw John Dawson in director Carl Pierson’s very modest, familiar 1935 Republic support Western The New Frontier, in which Wayne’s Dawson character turns lawman to hunt down the man who shot his father […]

Jun, 13

Paradise Canyon ** (1935, John Wayne, Marion Burns, Earle Hodgins, Yakima Canutt, Reed Howes, Perry Murdock) – Classic Movie Review 7151

Director Carl L Pierson’s 1935 Monogram movie Western Paradise Canyon is an earlyish visit to Wayne’s world, in which the youngish Big John (though he was now 28) plays government agent John Wyatt, who goes undercover […]

Jun, 11

Randy Rides Alone *** (1934, John Wayne, Alberta Vaughn, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Yakima Canutt, Earl Dwire, Artie Ortega) – Classic Movie Review 7137

Director Harry L Fraser’s 1934 early John Wayne B-movie for Lone Star and Monogram Pictures stars The Duke as an undercover lawman, Randy Bowers, who breaks out of jail after being framed for murder in […]

Jun, 08

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