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Pather Panchali ***** (1955, Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee, Subir Banerjee) – Classic Movie Review 7740

Pather Panchali (1955) is Indian writer-producer-director Satyajit Ray’s first film and the start of his stunning Apu trilogy charts the growth of Apu Ray (Subir Banerjee), a small boy born in a poor Bengali village, […]

Nov, 02

The Mysterious Dr Fu Manchu **** (1929, Warner Oland, Jean Arthur, Neil Hamilton, O P Heggie, William Austin) – Classic Movie Review 5,820

Warner Oland stars in the enjoyable 1929 chiller film The Mysterious Dr Fu Manchu as Sax Rohmer’s evil Chinese criminal mastermind Dr Fu Manchu, who sets out to avenge the death of his wife and […]

Jul, 28

King Solomon’s Mines * (1985, Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, Herbert Lom) – Classic Movie Review 5636

Richard Chamberlain (as white hunter Allan Quatermain), Sharon Stone as resourceful Jesse Huston, Herbert Lom as Colonel Bockner and John Rhys-Davies as Dogati are the stars in Golan-Globus’s Cannon Group’s tasteless 1985 rehash of H Rider Haggard’s vintage […]

Jun, 19

Dick Barton – Special Agent ** (1948, Don Stannard, George Ford, Gillian Maude, Jack Shaw, Geoffrey Wincott) – Classic Movie Review 4713

‘It’s no use Betsy, I can’t stand it any longer, I’m going out to look for Dick.’ Co-writer/ director Alfred Goulding’s 1948 British thriller stars Don Stannard as British Government Special Agent Dick Barton. Edward […]

Nov, 28

The Face of Fu Manchu **** (1965, Christopher Lee, Nigel Green, Tsai Chin, Howard Marion-Crawford, James Robertson Justice, Walter Rilla, Joachim Fuchsburger, Karin Dor) – Classic Movie Review 2945

Director Don Sharp’s brisk and entertaining 1965 British-West German crime thriller horror movie is the first and best of five Twenties period thrillers featuring Christopher Lee as Sax Rohmer’s dastardly super-villain character Fu Manchu, who surprisingly […]

Oct, 03

Gone in 60 Seconds *** (1974, H B Halicki, Marion Busia, Jerry Daugirda) – Classic Movie Review 940

A car thief is forced by an evil crime boss baddie to come out of retirement to steal 50 vehicles in a night to save his brother’s life. H B Halicki writes, produces, directs, does his […]

Mar, 19

Carry On Sergeant **** (1958, William Hartnell, Bob Monkhouse, Shirley Eaton, Eric Barker, Dora Bryan, Bill Owen, Kenneth Connor, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey) – Classic Movie Review 454

Director Gerald Thomas’s and producer Peter Rogers’s landmark 1958 comedy was such a hit that it turned out to be the first of 30 Carry On movies, Britain’s longest series. The breezy romp that unexpectedly […]

Nov, 27

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