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Arena **½ (1953, Gig Young, Jean Hagen, Polly Bergen, Barbara Lawrence, Harry Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 9819
Director Richard Fleischer’s 1953 Arena is an interesting, well set-up, nicely cast and slightly above run-of-the-mill rodeo film drama. Filmed in Ansco Color, it is supposedly the first 3D Western feature. Gig Young stars as […]
Sea of Sand [Desert Patrol] **** (1958, Richard Attenborough, John Gregson, Michael Craig) – Classic Movie Review 9381
Director Guy Green’s 1958 British war film Sea of Sand [Desert Patrol] is better than average war fare, using the sandy wastes of North Africa as an endless backdrop for a tale set during the North African […]
Castle in the Desert *** (1942, Sidney Toler, Arleen Whelan, Richard Derr) – Classic Movie Review 9046
This final Charlie Chan film in the 20th Century Fox series, director Harry Lachman’s 1942 Castle in the Desert, is a good one, with a decent script and a fine cast. The studio cut […]
The Trap *** (1959, Richard Widmark, Lee J Cobb, Tina Louise, Earl Holliman) – Classic Movie Review 9016
Co-writer/ co-producer/ director Norman Panama’s 1959 action crime thriller The Trap [The Baited Trap] stars Lee J Cobb as low-life law-breaker Victor Massonetti, a wanted mobster who is attempting to hide from the cops before […]
Sands of the Kalahari *** (1965, Stanley Baker, Stuart Whitman, Harry Andrews, Susannah York, Theodore Bikel, Nigel Davenport) – Classic Movie Review 7844
Stanley Baker reunites with his Zulu writer-director Cy Endfield for this enjoyable enough, if samey, 1965 adventure yarn Sands of the Kalahari. It was old fashioned in 1965 when the movie scene had changed so much, […]
The Beast with a Million Eyes ** (1955, Paul Birch, Lorna Thayer, Dona Cole, Dick Sargent, Leonard Tarver, Chester Conklin) – Classic Movie Review 7727
An extra-terrestrial beast with, in fact, two eyes that looks like a coffee percolator (it also sees through animals in its power) descends on the American South-West desert and gets various farmyard creatures, a blackbird, […]
Lucky **** (2017, Harry Dean Stanton, David Lynch, Ron Livingston, Ed Begley, Tom Skerritt, James Darren) – Movie Review
The legendary star character actor Harry Dean Stanton stars in director John Carroll Lynch’s splendidly quirky 2017 bitter-sweet comedy drama as 90-year-old atheist Lucky, a no-messing US Navy veteran living successfully alone in an oddball […]