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Bulldog Drummond **** (1929, Ronald Colman, Joan Bennett, Claud Allister, Lilyan Tashman, Montague Love, Lawrence Grant, Wilson Benge) – Classic Movie Review 5,360
Ronald Colman makes the part of British ex-army officer adventurer Captain Hugh Bulldog Drummond his own, in the excellent 1929 film Bulldog Drummond, with Claud Allister as his friend Algy Longworth. Writer Herman C McNeile […]
A Damsel in Distress ***½ (1937, Fred Astaire, Joan Fontaine, George Burns, Gracie Allen) – Classic Movie Review 5113
After so many films together, Ginger Rogers wanted a rest from acting, singing and dancing with Fred Astaire, so the RKO studio matched him together with a decorative and appealing Joan Fontaine. Alas that turns […]
White Savage *** (1943, Maria Montez, Jon Hall, Sabu, Turhan Bey, Thomas Gomez, Sidney Toler) – Classic Movie Review 3207
The 1943 Technicolor escapist fantasy adventure film White Savage reunites Maria Montez, Jon Hall and Sabu in a campy, colourful exotic tale. It is kind of the Raiders of the Lost Ark of its day. […]
Cobra Woman **** (1944, Maria Montez, Jon Hall, Sabu, Lon Chaney Jnr, Edgar Barrier) – Classic Movie Review 3204
‘TOLLEA! TEMPTRESS OF TERROR’ Director Robert Siodmak’s uber-colourful 1944 South Seas adventure Cobra Woman is revered as a legendary camp classic. Hollywood Babylon book author Kenneth Anger called it his favourite film. Cobra Woman re-teams Maria […]
The Two Mrs Carrolls *** (1947, Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith, Nigel Bruce) – Classic Movie Review 2256
Director Peter Godfrey’s 1947 American mystery film The Two Mrs Carrolls is based on the 1935 play by Martin Vale and stars Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith and Nigel Bruce. Bogart honeymooned with Lauren […]
Revenge of the Creature *** (1955, John Agar, Lori Nelson, John Bromfield, Nestor Paiva) – Classic Movie Review 1932
‘Weird Monster Escapes! Terror Seizes City!’ The 1955 monster movie Revenge of the Creature brings scientists back to the Amazon’s Black Lagoon, where the Gill Man (Ricou Browning/ Tom Hennesy) is captured and then transported […]
The Vikings **** (1958, Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Janet Leigh, James Donald, Alexander Knox, Maxine Audley, Frank Thring) – Classic Movie Review 143
Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine and Janet Leigh are all in their glorious prime in this exciting, top-quality period adventure hokum from 1958. Douglas (Einar) and Curtis (Eric) fight it out with vicious abandon […]