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Tarzan of the Apes *** (1918, Elmo Lincoln, Enid Markey, True Boardman) – Classic Movie Review 8088

Tarzan author Edgar Rice Burroughs sold the film rights of his original novel Tarzan of the Apes to the National Film Corporation on 6 June 1916 for a record $5,000 cash advance on royalties, $50,000 in company […]

Feb, 02

Tarzan and the Jungle Boy ** (1968, Mike Henry, Aliza Gur, Ron Gans, Steve Bond, Rafer Johnson, Ed Johnson) – Classic Movie Review 8078

One-time American athlete Mike Henry plays the hero Tarzan for the third and final time, setting off into the jungle to look for a missing boy, in Tarzan and the Jungle Boy (1968). This lively enough, […]

Jan, 30

Tarzan and the Leopard Woman ** (1946, Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Johnny Sheffield, Acquanetta) – Classic Movie Review 8060

Director Kurt Neumann’s 1946 Tarzan and the Leopard Woman is boisterous jungle fun with Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce and Johnny Sheffield as Tarzan, Jane and Boy, and swings along at a swift pace. A murderous […]

Jan, 25

Shoplifters [Manbiki kazoku] ***** (2018, Lily Franky, Sakura Andô, Mayu Matsuoka, Jyo Kairi, Miyu Sasaki) – Movie Review

Writer-director Hirokazu Koreeda’s warm and wonderful Shoplifters (2018) won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018. It focuses on a poor Japanese family of small-time thieves, shoplifting to make ends meet, who take in […]

Jan, 04

Russkies ** (1987, Whip Hubley, Joaquin Phoenix, Peter Billingsley) – Classic Movie Review 7619

Director Rick Rosenthal’s 1987 Russkies is the teen version of The Russians Are Coming! focusing on three American kids (including, playing Danny, River Phoenix’s brother Leaf, who later morphed into Joaquin Phoenix) who find a Russian […]

Sep, 25

Germany Year Zero [Germania Anno Zero] ***** (1948, Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze, Franz-Otto Krüger, Erich Gühne) – Classic Movie Review 7541

Director Roberto Rossellini’s 1947 Italian neo-realist masterpiece classic drama Germany Year Zero [Germania Anno Zero] is a horrific portrait of Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War, as experienced by a 12-year-old lad (Edmund […]

Sep, 04

Ah Wilderness! ***** (1935, Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, Aline MacMahon, Eric Linden, Cecilia Parker, Spring Byington, Mickey Rooney, Bonita Granville) = Classic Movie Review 7357

‘Clarence Brown’s production of Eugene O’Neill’s great American drama’. Perhaps it is surprising that MGM should want to turn posh dramatist Eugene O’Neill’s one-off nostalgic comic play about a provincial small-town American family around 1900 […]

Jul, 27

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