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Border Incident ***½ (1949, Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, Howard Da Silva) – Classic Movie Review 5274

Director Anthony Mann’s 1949 film noir crime thriller lifts a mundane yarn about the law versus illegal Mexican immigrants by shooting it in a sharply realist fashion with John Alton’s noir-style black and white photography. […]

Apr, 10

Places in the Heart **** (1984, Sally Field, Lindsay Crouse, Ed Harris, Amy Madigan, John Malkovich, Danny Glover) – Classic Movie Review 5126

Writer-director Robert Benton’s 1984 US Deep South drama was a triumph for both him and his star Sally Field, who won her second Best Actress Oscar for her typically spunky performance as Edna Spalding, the sheriff’s […]

Mar, 10

Shame [Skammen] **** (1968, Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Gunnar Björnstrand, Sigge Fürst) – Classic Movie Review 4839

In writer/ director Ingmar Bergman’s bleak, starkly photographed (by the masterly cinematographer Sven Nykvist) 1968 futuristic war fable, a violinist couple (played by Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann) are embroiled in a civil war […]

Jan, 03

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers ***** (1954, Jane Powell, Howard Keel, Russ Tamblyn, Jeff Richards, Tommy Rall, Matt Mattox, Marc Platt, Jacques d’Ambroise, Howard Petrie, Julie Newmar) – Classic Movie Review 4533

Director Stanley Donen’s wonderfully exuberant and high-spirited 1954 MGM dance musical Seven Brides for Seven Brothers stars Jane Powell and Howard Keel, and tells the story about the seven Pontipee brothers on a backwoods farm […]

Oct, 25

Dragonwyck **** (1946, Gene Tierney, Vincent Price, Glenn Langan, Walter Huston, Anne Revere, Spring Byington, Harry Morgan, Jessica Tandy) – Classic Movie Review 4466

‘Dangerously, she dared to love!’ Gene Tierney stars as beautiful Connecticut farm girl Miranda Wells, in the 1946 period mystery thriller film Dragonwyck.  ‘Dangerously, she dared to love!’ Gene Tierney stars as beautiful Connecticut farm girl […]

Oct, 08

The Big Bounce ** (1969, Ryan O’Neal, Leigh Taylor-Young, Van Heflin, James Daly, Robert Webber, Lee Grant) – Classic Movie Review 4461

Director Alex March’s 1969 caper thriller stars Ryan O’Neal as Jack Ryan, a young ex-GI, drifter and criminal who gets into big trouble in his job at a Californian hotel. Leigh Taylor-Young plays a shady, greedy […]

Oct, 06

They Came from Beyond Space * (1967, Robert Hutton, Jennifer Jayne, Zia Mohyeddin, Bernard Kay, Michael Gough) – Classic Movie Review 4,406

Robert Hutton stars in director Freddie Francis’s cheap, daft and unconvincing 1967 British sci-ci chiller film They Came from Beyond Space as Dr Curtis Temple, an astro-physicist who, it turns out, can save the world. […]

Sep, 24

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