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- The Secret of the Whistler *** (1946, Richard Dix, Leslie Brooks, Michael Duane, Mary Currier, Mona Barrie, Claire Du Brey) – Classic Movie Review 13,253
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The Bride Came C.O.D. *** (1941, James Cagney, Bette Davis, Stuart Erwin) – Classic Movie Review 5939
The breezy and likeable 1941 romantic comedy film The Bride Came C.O.D. re-unites James Cagney and Bette Davis after their 1934 Jimmy the Gent, though it was publicised as their ‘first screen pairing’ Director William […]
King Solomon’s Mines **** (1937, Paul Robeson, Roland Young, John Loder, Anna Lee) – Classic Movie Review 5633
Paul Robeson’s superlative performance (he even gets to sing) as hunter guide Umbopa, a mysterious exiled African chief who helps the explorers in their quest, lights up director Robert Stevenson’s 1937 British movie of the […]
The Big Trail **** (1930, John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill, El Brendel, Tully Marshall, Tyrone Power Sr) – Classic Movie Review 5480
John Wayne’s mentor and friend John Ford recommended him to director Raoul Walsh to star in this eventful, huge-budget epic 1930 Western as Breck Coleman, the wise scout of the wagon train of pioneers edging […]
The Desert Rats *** (1953, Richard Burton, James Mason, Robert Newton, Robert Douglas) – Classic Movie Review 5408
Director Robert Wise’s standard studio-bound 1953 film dramatisation of the World War Two Tobruk campaign is a fairly involving war action adventure, thanks to the well-crafted 20th Century Fox studio production, the stalwart British players […]
Melvin and Howard **** (1980, Paul LeMat, Jason Robards Jr, Mary Steenburgen) – Classic Movie Review 5350
Bo Goldman received two Academy Awards for his screenplays of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) and Melvin and Howard (1980). Director Jonathan Demme’s highly delightful, double Oscar-winning 1980 comedy film Melvin and Howard […]
It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World **** (1963, Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Ethel Merman, Jimmy Durante, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney, Phil Silvers, Terry-Thomas, Peter Falk) – Classic Movie Review 5094
Producer-director Kramer delivers what it says on the tin – ‘a comedy to end all comedies’ – in a bright and breezy epic madcap cross-country chase farce that skilfully piles up daffy turns, funny gags […]
Ice Cold in Alex **** (1958, John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Anthony Quayle, Harry Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 5028
Director J Lee Thompson’s 1958 British World War Two wartime-set thriller Ice Cold in Alex stars John Mills as a British military man, Captain Anson, who leads an ambulance and its medical field unit passengers […]