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Jivaro [Lost Treasure of the Amazon] ** (1954, Fernando Lamas, Rhonda Fleming, Brian Keith, Lon Chaney Jr, Richard Denning, Marvin Miller, Rita Moreno) – Classic Movie Review 10,553

In 1954 Rhonda Fleming starred with Fernando Lamas in Jivaro, her third 3D movie, following Those Redheads from Seattle with Gene Barry and Inferno with Robert Ryan. Director Edward Ludwig’s 1953 Jivaro [Lost Treasure of the Amazon] […]

Nov, 17

Grand Slam **** (1967, Janet Leigh, Edward G Robinson, Robert Hoffmann, Klaus Kinski, George Rigaud, Riccardo Cucciolla, Adolfo Celi) – Classic Movie Review 10,206

The 1967 Italian heist thriller film Grand Slam [Ad Ogni Costo] stars Edward G Robinson as a mild-mannered American teacher, who retires and assembles a team of international crooks to pull off a $10 million […]

Aug, 21

Tarzan and the Great River ** (1967, Mike Henry, Jan Murray, Manuel Padilla Jr) – Classic Movie Review 8076

Tarzan and the Great River (1967) is directed briskly and very competently by Robert Day. It is the penultimate of the five Tarzan movies he made in the Sixties. The great river is the Amazon […]

Jan, 30

Herbie Goes Bananas! ** (1980, Charles Martin Smith, Stephen W Burns, Cloris Leachman, John Vernon, Elyssa Davalos, Harvey Korman, Richard Jaeckel, Alex Rocco, Fritz Feld) – Classic Movie Review 7870

Director Vincent McEveety’s 1980 Herbie Goes Bananas! is the fourth and final part of Walt Disney Productions’ original Volkswagen Beetle Herbie saga that began in 1968 with The Love Bug. Cloris Leachman star as Aunt Louise, […]

Dec, 02

The Emerald Forest **** (1985, Powers Boothe, Meg Foster, Charley Boorman) – Classic Movie Review 5456

Director John Boorman’s 1985 jungle adventure The Emerald Forest is both thrilling and uplifting, with director Boorman’s own son Charley Boorman starring as Tommy, a boy kidnapped at seven and brought up by an Amazon […]

May, 15

Flying Down to Rio **** (1933, Gene Raymond, Dolores del Rio, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Raul Roulien, Franklin Pangborn, Eric Blore) – Classic Movie Review 2960

Director Thornton Freeland’s fun and sometimes still thrilling 1933 musical Flying Down to Rio is famous now, if at all, as the first teaming of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, in what turned out to […]

Oct, 05

Home from Home [Die andere Heimat – Chronik einer Sehnsucht] ***** (2013, Jan Dieter Schneider, Antonia Bill) – Movie Review

Co-writer/director Edgar Reitz‘s overwhelming world cinema masterpiece makes a devastating emotional and intellectual impact. Astoundingly you can look in vain for international movie awards for it, though it was appreciated in Germany. Reitz shoots his […]

Apr, 09

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