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Tonight for Sure ** (1962, Karl Schanzer, Don Kenney, Marli Renfro) – Classic Movie Review 4737

Francis Ford Coppola’s first film, made when he was 23, is a 1962 sexploitation Western softcore comedy, co-written with Jerry Shaffer, set in August 1961 on the Sunset Strip, Tonight for Sure stars Karl Schanzer […]

Dec, 10

Another Dawn ** (1937, Errol Flynn, Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, Mary Forbes) – Classic Movie Review 4756

Director William Dieterle’s 1937 romantic melodrama film was an old-fashioned antique even when it was new. Its mix of adventure plus romance in the British Empire is a soap-opera-style time-filler set in an imperial African […]

Dec, 08

Nine Men *** (1943, Jack Lambert, Gordon Jackson, Frederick Piper, Grant Sutherland, Bill Blewitt) – Classic Movie Review 4691

Writer-director Harry Watt’s 1943 realist-style World War Two war picture is minor but tense, interesting and impressive. It stars Jack Lambert as Sergeant Watson, Gordon Jackson as the Young ‘un, Frederick Piper as Banger Hill, […]

Nov, 24

Yellow Sky **** (1948, Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark, Robert Arthur, John Russell, Harry Morgan, James Barton) – Classic Movie Review 3975

Director William A Wellman’s powerful 1948 Western is a near classic. It is motored by one of Gregory Peck’s top performances as Stretch Dawson, a kindly outlaw who fights one of the nastier villains he is […]

Jul, 04

The Lost Patrol **** (1934, Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, Wallace Ford, Reginald Denny, J M Kerrigan, Billy Bevan, Alan Hale) – Classic Movie Review 3893

John Ford’s 1934 wartime adventure film tells a still stirring classic tale of a World War One British army patrol of a dozen soldiers lost in the Mesopotamian desert and facing constant sniper attacks from unseen […]

Jun, 20

The Mask of Fu Manchu *** (1932, Boris Karloff, Lewis Stone, Karen Morley, Charles Starrett, Myrna Loy, Jean Hersholt) – Classic Movie Review 3888

Directors Charles Brabin and (uncredited) Charles Vidor’s 1932 horror adventure stars Boris Karloff as novelist Sax Rohmer’s creepy villain Dr Fu Manchu, the evil genius who is stirred up to new evil by the beautiful […]

Jun, 19

Them! **** (1954, James Whitmore, Joan Weldon, James Arness, Edmund Gwenn, Onslow Stevens, Fess Parker, William Schallert, Dub Taylor, Leonard Nimoy) – Classic Movie Review 3720

Director Gordon Douglas’s vintage 1954 sci-fi horror thriller Them! is still good fun thanks to the taut pace and admirably serious approach he brings to it. It was nominated for an Oscar for Best Special Effects. […]

May, 19

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