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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
- The Thirteenth Hour *** (1947, Richard Dix, Karen Morley, John Kellogg, Jim Bannon, Regis Toomey) – Classic Movie Review 13,256
- 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
- Kiss the Boys Goodbye **½ (1941, Don Ameche, Mary Martin, Oscar Levant) – Classic Movie Review 13,252
- Forbidden Cargo ** (1954, Nigel Patrick, Elizabeth Sellars, Terence Morgan, Jack Warner, Greta Gynt, Joyce Grenfell, Theodore Bikel) – Classic Movie Review 13,251
- Voice of the Whistler **½ (1945, Richard Dix, Lynn Merrick, Rhys Williams, James Cardwell) – Classic Movie Review 13,250
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Sorrowful Jones *** (1949, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, William Demarest) – Classic Movie Review 9196
Damon Runyon’s short story Markie is reworked in director Sidney Lanfield’s 1949 Sorrowful Jones as an amusing vehicle for Bob Hope, spreading his wings in a straight character part as Sorrowful Jones, a bookie who […]
Cromwell *** (1970, Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley, Dorothy Tutin, Frank Finlay, Timothy Dalton) – Classic Movie Review 9192
Writer-director Ken Hughes’s 1970 British historical drama Cromwell is an interesting version of how the 17th-century Puritan squire Oliver Cromwell became a member of the English Parliament, and then seized power as a dictator. The […]
Trader Horn *** (1931, Harry Carey Sr, Edwina Booth, Duncan Renaldo) – Classic Movie Review 9187
Director W S Van Dyke II’s 1931 adventure movie Trader Horn stars Harry Carey Sr as explorer Aloysius ‘Trader’ Horn, who meets danger and understandably hostile locals in the jungle of darkest Africa of the […]
Oliver Twist *** (1982, George C Scott, Tim Curry, Michael Hordern) – Classic Movie Review 9171
Director Clive Donner’s 1982 Oliver Twist is an excellent TV movie version of the classic Charles Dickens tale starring George C Scott as an almost fatherly Fagin and Tim Curry as the evil thug Bill […]
The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones ** (1976, Nicky Henson, Trevor Howard, Terry-Thomas, Arthur Lowe, Georgia Brown, Joan Collins) – Classic Movie Review 9165
Nicky Henson was also top-billed in a lesser remake of Henry Fielding’s novel The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones (1976) after his star turn in the cult horror film Psychomania [The Death Wheelers] (1973). No one had […]
Jane Eyre *** (1970, George C Scott, Susannah York, Ian Bannen) – Classic Movie Review 9163
Charlotte Brontë probably would not have liked director Delbert Mann’s smooth and glossy 1970 American TV version of Jane Eyre, which was released in cinemas worldwide. It is just too smooth and glossy. It won […]
Odette **** (1950, Anna Neagle, Trevor Howard, Peter Ustinov, Marius Goring, Bernard Lee) – Classic Movie Review 9143
Anna Neagle shines in her producer-director husband Herbert Wilcox’s 1950 British wartime drama Odette. Based on the book by Jerrard Tickell, there is a sterling tale of Resistance heroics in Nazi-occupied France in this stirring […]