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The 51st State [Formula 51] ** (2001, Samuel L Jackson, Robert Carlyle, Emily Mortimer) – Classic Movie Review 8878

Och aye, Samuel L McJackson is a sight for sore eyes with golf clubs and a kilt as Elmo McElroy, a crooked master chemist who heads to the UKto launch a new designer drug in […]

Sep, 03

The Big Shakedown *** (1934, Charles Farrell, Bette Davis, Ricardo Cortez, Glenda Farrell, Allen Jenkins) – Classic Movie Review 6901

Director John Francis Dillon’s 1934 crime drama stars Bette Davis as platinum blonde Norma Frank, a pharmacy clerk who wants to shake off her pharmacist husband Jimmy (Charles Farrell) when he is duped into joining […]

Apr, 08

Strange Confession *** (1945, Lon Chaney Jr, Brenda Joyce, J Carrol Naish, Milburn Stone, Lloyd Bridges, Mary Gordon, Addison Richards) – Classic Movie Review 3768

Director John Hoffman’s chilling 1945 low-budget horror mystery is the fifth of Universal’s six Inner Sanctum series entries, and again stars Lon Chaney Jr, this time as chemist / scientist Jeff Carter, who is working on a cure […]

May, 24

The Man in the White Suit ***** (1951, Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Joan Greenwood, Ernest Thesiger, Michael Gough, Vida Hope) – Classic Movie Review 2819

Director Alexander Mackendrick’s joyous, typically quirky 1951 Ealing Studios comedy stars Alec Guinness as an inventor called Sidney Stratton who discovers a miracle cloth fabric that can never get dirty or wear out. That’s the […]

Aug, 16

The Son of Dr Jekyll *** (1951, Louis Hayward, Alexander Knox, Jody Lawrance, Lester Matthews, Paul Cavanagh, Gavin Muir, Rhys Williams) – Classic Movie Review 2765

Producer-director Seymour Friedman’s forgotten 1951 chiller tries for an interesting expansion and continuation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde story with the bad doctor’s son Edward Jekyll (Louis Hayward) going through a […]

Aug, 01

Rocketship X-M **** (1950, Lloyd Bridges, Osa Massen, John Emery, Noah Beery Jr, Hugh O’Brian, Morris Ankrum) – Classic Movie Review 2562

Producer-director Kurt Neumann’s trail-blazing 1950 sci-fi movie is the first American outer space adventure of the post-World War Two era. It was quickly shot in just 18 days and rushed into cinemas 25 days before the high-profile Destination Moon, […]

Jun, 06

Monkey Business ***** (1952, Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, Marilyn Monroe) – Classic Movie Review 2157

The brilliant 1952 screwball comedy Monkey Business stars Cary Grant as an absent-minded Professor developing an elixir of youth. Marilyn Monroe emerges gracefully from funny jokes at her expense – ’anyone can type’, ‘half child […]

Feb, 04

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