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Mr Majestyk **** (1974, Charles Bronson, Linda Cristal, Al Lettieri, Lee Purcell, Paul Koslo) – Classic Movie Review 8320

The 1974 Mr Majestyk is one of Charles Bronson’s most effective action thrillers thanks to Richard Fleischer’s buzzing direction and Elmore Leonard’s playful but tough original thriller screenplay. It is Bronson’s only cinema movie written […]

Apr, 01

The Wedding Night *** (1935, Gary Cooper, Anna Sten, Ralph Bellamy, Sig Ruman, Helen Vinson) – Classic Movie Review 7178

Gary Cooper stars in the romantic drama The Wedding Night (1935) as an author called Tony Barrett who is married to Dora (Helen Vinson), and causes chaos in a Polish farming family when he takes a […]

Jun, 16

The Loves of Joanna Godden *** (1947, Googie Withers, Jean Kent, John McCallum, Derek Bond, Chips Rafferty) – Classic Movie Review 7088

Director Charles Frend’s nicely done but mild 1947 Ealing Studios romantic drama, taken from Sheila Kaye-Smith’s novel Joanna Godden, is set in England in the Edwardian period. It is Romney Marsh, between Kent and Sussex, in 1905. […]

May, 23

Country **** (1984, Jessica Lange, Sam Shepard, Wilford Brimley) – Classic Movie Review 7059

Director Richard Pearce’s 1984 drama Country provides a great showcase for Jessica Lange, who was deservedly Oscar-nominated as Best Actress for this moving, bucolic tale of an Ohio family having trouble surviving and making a […]

May, 15

Sweet Country **** (2017, Hamilton Morris, Sam Neill, Bryan Brown, Matt Day, Ewen Leslie) – Movie Review

Sweet Country is a sweet racially charged Australian Western. Director Warwick Thornton’s obviously ironically named Australian Western, inspired by true events on the Northern Territory frontier in the 1920s, stars Hamilton Morris as middle-aged Aboriginal […]

Mar, 08

They Knew What They Wanted ** (1940, Charles Laughton, Carole Lombard, William Gargan, Harry Carey Sr, Frank Fay, Karl Malden, Tom Ewell) – Classic Movie Review 6753

A 1924 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Sidney Howard, beautiful Carole Lombard and the great Charles Laughton come together and produce top director Garson Kanin’s interesting if less than awe-inspiring 1940 RKO Radio Pictures movie. Laughton plays […]

Mar, 01

Betrayed *** (1988, Debra Winger, Tom Berenger, John Heard, Betsy Blair, John Mahoney, Ted Levine) – Classic Movie Review 6664

Director Constantin Costa-Gavras’s 1988 thriller-with-a-message is extremely powerful and gripping, with strong performances and important things to convey about prejudice, even if it is not always as convincing or distinguished as his masterworks Z (1969) and […]

Feb, 08

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