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House of Strangers **** (1949, Edward G Robinson, Susan Hayward, Richard Conte, Luther Adler, Paul Valentine, Efrem Zimbalist Jr, Debra Paget) – Classic Movie Review 3399

Director Joseph L Mankiewicz’s sombre but distinguished 1949 drama is bizarrely the first of three movies written by screenwriter Philip Yordan based on the same novel, I’ll Never Go Home Again by Jerome Weidman. Winning the Best […]

Feb, 22

Fourteen Hours **** (1951, Paul Douglas, Richard Basehart, Barbara Bel Geddes, Debra Paget, Agnes Moorehead, Robert Keith, Howard Da Silva, Jeffrey Hunter) – Classic Movie Review 3390

Director Henry Hathaway’s ultra-tense, meticulously crafted 1951 film noir thriller is an absolutely excellent one. The exteriors are imaginatively shot on location on the streets of New York City. The building used was demolished in 1967 […]

Feb, 20

Les Misérables *** (1952, Robert Newton, Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, Edmund Gwenn, Sylvia Sidney, Cameron Mitchell, Elsa Lanchester, James Robertson Justice, Joseph Wiseman) – Classic Movie Review 3147

Robert Newton gives an entertaining, lip-smacking performance as the sneering, over-law-abiding cop Inspector Javert in this well-acted, thoroughly enjoyable if not especially distinguished screen version of the Victor Hugo tale. Michael Rennie perhaps is less […]

Dec, 12

The Haunted Palace *** (1963, Vincent Price, Debra Paget, Lon Chaney Jr) – Classic Movie Review 2849

Director Roger Corman’s fine 1963 chiller once again stars Vincent Price in the fourth in Corman’s cycle of eight films featuring connections with Edgar Allan Poe stories, released by American International Pictures. This time Price […]

Aug, 25

Tales of Terror *** (1962, Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone, Debra Paget, Maggie Pierce, Leona Gage) – Classic Movie Review 2848

Vincent Price stars in three Edgar Allan Poe tales, retold by director Roger Corman in 1962 in his own stylish, baroque gothic horror way. Price also introduced all three sequences, which took just three weeks to film. It […]

Aug, 24

Demetrius and the Gladiators *** (1954, Victor Mature, Susan Hayward, Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, Anne Bancroft, Jay Robinson) – Classic Movie Review 2251

Director Delmer Daves’s routine but entertaining 1954 sword-and-sandal follow-up to the 20th Century Fox blockbuster movie The Robe is cinema’s only sequel to a biblical epic. Made in CinemaScope and Technicolor, it was another huge hit, grossing $26million […]

Mar, 10

The Ten Commandments ****½ (1956, Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Edward G Robinson, Anne Baxter, Nina Foch, Cedric Hardwicke, Yvonne De Carlo, Debra Paget, John Derek) – Classic Movie Review 2247

Director Cecil B DeMille remakes his 1923 silent film The Ten Commandments in 1956 with the help of Charlton Heston as Moses, Technicolor, VistaVision and Oscar-winning special effects. The Ten Commandments also stars Yul Brynner as […]

Mar, 09

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