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Ivanhoe **** (1952, Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Emlyn Williams, Robert Douglas, Finlay Currie, Felix Aylmer) – Classic Movie Review 3654

Finding first choice Stewart Granger otherwise engaged, MGM studios cast their then waning star Robert Taylor as the disowned knight Ivanhoe in director Richard Thorpe’s thoroughly enjoyable Normans versus Saxons 1952 mediaeval swashbuckler Ivanhoe, derived […]

May, 03

A Challenge for Robin Hood *** (1967, Barrie Ingham, James Hayter, Leon Greene) – Classic Movie Review 3475

Director C Pennington Richards’s lively but undistinguished 1967 British version of the Sherwood Forest legend was made for Hammer Films, which had already filmed Sword of Sherwood Forest in 1960 with a different cast. This […]

Mar, 14

By Our Selves *** (2015, Andrew Kotting, Toby Jones, Freddie Jones, Eden Kotting, Alan Moore) – Movie Review

Director Andrew Kotting investigates the life and thoughts of the poet John Clare in this typically eccentric and engaging documentary that carries on his profitable obsession with road trips. Remember how it started with Gallivant […]

Oct, 15

Silent Running **** (1972, Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jesse Vint) – Classic Movie Review 2924

This nifty cult item is the 1972 directorial début of Douglas Trumbull, visual special effects supervisor wizard for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Star Trek: The Motion Picture […]

Sep, 25

FernGully: The Last Rainforest *** (1992, voices of Jonathan Ward, Samantha Mathis, Tim Curry, Christian Slater, Robin Williams) – Classic Movie Review 2660

Director Bill Kroyer’s commendably green 1992 Australian-American fantasy environmental film is a musical mix of animation and reality. It is set within the expanses of a great fictitious Australian rain-forest, whose magical fairy inhabitants fight to save their […]

Jul, 02

The Animal ** (2001, Rob Schneider, Colleen Haskell, John C. McGinley) – Classic Movie Review 1972

Director Luke Greenfield provides a moderate 2001 comedy star vehicle for Rob Schneider as wimpy Marvin Mange, who is injured in a car crash. He thinks his lifelong dreams of becoming a cop are over, until […]

Dec, 17

Bambi **** (1942, Walt Disney) – Classic Movie Review 1415

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs supervising director David Hand’s much-loved Walt Disney 1942 animated feature film is dazzlingly well animated in lovely Technicolor images by a team of sequence directors Hand is supervising. In […]

Jul, 11

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