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A Talent for Loving * (1969, Richard Widmark, Cesar Romero, Chaim Topol, Geneviève Page) – Classic Movie Review 11,725

Director Richard Quine’s 1969 British-American comedy Western film A Talent for Loving stars Richard Widmark, Cesar Romero, Chaim Topol, and Geneviève Page. It is based on the 1961 satirical Western novel A Talent for Loving, […]

Nov, 15

Curse of Simba [Curse of the Voodoo] * (1965, Bryant Haliday, Dennis Price, Lisa Daniely) – Classic Movie Review 11,108

Director Lindsay Shonteff’s 1965 British-American black-and-white supernatural horror film Curse of Simba [Curse of the Voodoo] [Voodoo Blood Death] stars Bryant Haliday, Dennis Price, and Lisa Daniely, and is set in Africa but filmed in […]

Apr, 18

Blackbeard’s Ghost ** (1968, Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette) – Classic Movie Review 10,170

Peter Ustinov’s engagingly vigorous portrayal as Captain Blackbeard is the main attraction of Walt Disney’s otherwise uninspired comedy fantasy, director Robert Stevenson’s 1968 Blackbeard’s Ghost. Ben Stahl’s story about the bumbling ghost of Blackbeard the […]

Aug, 12

Operazione Paura [Kill, Baby… Kill!] **** (1966, Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Erika Blanc, Fabienne Dali) – Classic Movie Review 7823

Director Mario Bava’s creepy, atmospheric and outstanding 1966 Italian Gothic horror film Operazione Paura [Kill, Baby… Kill!] stars Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Erika Blanc and Fabienne Dali. Based on a story co-written by Bava, Romano Migliorini, and Roberto […]

Nov, 23

I Married a Witch **** (1942, Fredric March, Veronica Lake, Cecil Kellaway) – Classic Movie Review 7189

Director René Clair sprinkles magic dust on this enchanting 1942 whimsical comedy about a 260-year-old witch (Veronica Lake) and her much, much older wizard dad (Cecil Kellaway) who materialise in the present to scare the […]

Jun, 18

The Fall of the House of Usher [Revenge in the House of Usher] * (1983, Howard Vernon, Antonio Mayans, Lina Romay, Fata Morgana, Daniel White) – Classic Movie Review 6385

Jesús Franco [Jess Franco] acts as writer/ producer/ director/ musician and cameraman in his desperately cheap and muddled, but cheerful and good-looking 1983 Spanish film version of the Edgar Allan Poe story, originally called El Hundimiento […]

Dec, 10

The Mummy **½ (2017, Tom Cruise, Sofia Boutella, Annabelle Wallis, Jake Johnson, Courtney B Vance, Russell Crowe) – Movie Review

There is no doubt that The Mummy is a great looker in IMAX 3D. It is a quite brilliant production, with astounding state-of-the-art visual effects, photography and set designs, and that is a good start. […]

Jun, 09

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