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The Lady Gambles *** (1949, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Preston, Stephen McNally) – Classic Movie Review 10,948

The lady in the 1949 film noir drama The Lady Gambles is Joan Boothe (played by Barbara Stanwyck), whose compulsive gambling addiction leads to marital strife. On set, Stanwyck gave young Tony Curtis a tip.  […]

Feb, 21

Scorchers * (1991, Faye Dunaway, Denholm Elliott, James Earl Jones, Emily Lloyd, Jennifer Tilly) – Classic Movie Review 10,178

Writer-director David Beaird’s 1991 drama Scorchers stars Faye Dunaway as the Bayou La Teche town slut, Denholm Elliott as the town drunk, James Earl Jones as the bar-keeper, Jennifer Tilly as Talbot, and Emily Lloyd […]

Aug, 14

Accidental Hero ** (1992, Dustin Hoffman, Geena Davis, Andy Garcia) – Classic Movie Review 9248

Director Stephen Frears’s 1992 Accidental Hero [Hero] stars Dustin Hoffman as Bernie LaPlante, a petty crook who becomes an unlikely reluctant hero when he saves 54 people from a crashed burning plane, including TV reporter […]

Jan, 09

Wounds (2019, Armie Hammer, Dakota Johnson, Zazie Beetz, Karl Glusman, Brad William Henke) – Movie Review

Oh Armie Hammer! He finds himself stranded in writer-director Babak Anvari’s going-nowhere horror mystery dud Wounds (2019), based on The Visible Filth, a horror novella by Nathan Ballingrud. Yet he gives is his all as […]

Oct, 05

The Linguini Incident (1991, Rosanna Arquette, David Bowie, Eszter Balint) – Classic Movie Review 8933

Co-writer/ director Richard Shepard’s 1991 movie The Linguini Incident tries hard to be a freewheeling, chic comedy in the style of Desperately Seeking Susan. But, despite being bizarre, energetic and sometimes even inventive, it just […]

Sep, 23

A Day of Fury ** (1956, Dale Robertson, Mara Corday, Jock Mahoney, Carl Benton Reid, John Dehner, Jan Merlin, James Bell) – Classic Movie Review 8311

Director Harmon Jones’s sturdy 1956 Universal Pictures Western film A Day of Fury stars Dale Robertson as the pistol-slinging cowboy Jagade, unhappy with the cleaned-up town where he dwells, who decides to reopen the saloon […]

Mar, 29

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

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