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Sugarfoot *** (1951, Randolph Scott, Raymond Massey, Adele Jergens, S Z Sakall, Robert Warwick, Arthur Hunnicutt, John Hamilton, Hugh Sanders) – Classic Movie Review 7416

Director Edwin L Marin’s 1951 Sugarfoot is a grippingly told, action-packed Technicolor Western, set down Arizona way, and starring Randolph Scott, Raymond Massey and Adele Jergens. Fast moving and sure footed, it is written by Russell S Hughes (adaptation) from the novel […]

Aug, 08

Tales of Manhattan *** (1942, Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers, Henry Fonda, Cesar Romero, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Edward G Robinson, Paul Robeson) – Classic Movie Review 7397

It is a game of spotting the stars in director Julien Duvivier’s 1942 portmanteau fantasy anthology film Tales of Manhattan that tells of the effect a new, custom-made formal tailcoat has as it changes hands (or […]

Aug, 04

Andy Hardy Comes Home ** (1958, Mickey Rooney, Fay Holden, Patricia Breslin, Sara Haden, Cecilia Parker) – Classic Movie Review 7360

Director Howard W Koch’s 1958 Andy Hardy Comes Home is a rather sad, belated, out-of-time sequel to the Thirties and Forties Andy Hardy series (1937-1946), filmed a decade too late, with a 40-something Andy Hardy […]

Jul, 28

The Black Swan **** (1942, Tyrone Power, Maureen O’Hara, Laird Cregar, Thomas Mitchell, George Sanders, Anthony Quinn, George Zucco) – Classic Movie Review 7324

The 1942 high-adventure movie The Black Swan is thrilling pirate malarkey, with the two handsome leads Tyrone Power and Maureen O’Hara giving attractive performances. Director Henry King’s 1942 high-adventure Technicolor swashbuckler movie The Black Swan is […]

Jul, 21

Shoah ***** (1985, Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaïdl, Itzhak Dugin, Richard Glazar, Paula Biren, Helena Pietyra, Pan Filipowicz, Pan Falborski)- Classic Movie Review 7255

French writer-director Claude Lanzmann’s exhaustive 1985 nine-hour, 26-minute documentary on the holocaust, Shoah, is put together by director Lanzmann from more than 350 hours of filmed interviews with survivors, guards and witnesses. Shoah is the Hebrew […]

Jul, 06

Cyrano de Bergerac **** (1950, José Ferrer, Mala Powers, William Prince) – Classic Movie Review 7229

Long before there was Gérard Depardieu in the 1990 French classic movie Cyrano de Bergerac, there was José Ferrer, who won the Best Actor award at the Oscars and Golden Globes as Edmond Rostand’s 17th-century […]

Jun, 28

Desire Me * (1947, Greer Garson, Robert Mitchum, Richard Hart) – Classic Movie Review 7145

Robert Mitchum stars as the presumed dead soldier Paul Aubert, who comes home to Brittany from war service in World War Two to find his battle and German prison camp buddy Jean (Richard Hart, from […]

Jun, 10

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