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Rogues of Sherwood Forest *** (1950, John Derek, George Macready, Alan Hale, Billy House, Billy Bevan, Diana Lynn, Paul Cavanagh, Lowell Gilmore, Lester Matthews) – Classic Movie Review 3037

In 1950 a young and dashing John Derek (later the husband of Bo Derek) played Robin Hood’s son, also Robin, the Earl of Huntington, battling King John over the Magna Carta in this sturdy, action-packed […]

Nov, 07

The Big Clock **** (1948, Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Sullivan, George Macready, Rita Johnson, Elsa Lanchester) – Classic Movie Review 2575

Charles Laughton grabs the opportunity to shine in director John Farrow’s outstanding 1948 Hitchcockian thriller The Big Clock.  In director John Farrow’s outstanding 1948 Hitchcockian black-and-white film noir thriller The Big Clock, Charles Laughton grabs the […]

Jun, 09

Seven Days in May ***** (1964, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien, Martin Balsam, George Macready) – Classic Movie Review 2533

Fired up director John Frankenheimer’s 1964 paranoia conspiracy thriller simmers with tension and delivers edge-of-the-seat suspense in a story that is all about right-wing general  James Mattoon Scott (Burt Lancaster)’s coup with other military leaders […]

May, 28

Vera Cruz ***** (1954, Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster, Denise Darcel, Cesar Romero, George Macready, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Elam) – Classic Movie Review 2479

Director Robert Aldrich’s great 1954 Western features a standoff between great stars Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster, representing the faces of good and evil, well, sort of. Cooper plays nice former soldier and gentleman Benjamin Trane, while Lancaster […]

May, 13

Detective Story **** (1951, Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Cathy O’Donnell, Lee Grant) – Classic Movie Review 2385

Producer-director William Wyler’s 1951 sturdy and thoughtful film noir crime drama provides a great role for Kirk Douglas as hard-nosed cop Detective Jim McLeod. The story finds him confronting a sea of troubles and an ill […]

Apr, 13

Dead Ringer **** (1964, Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford, Philip Carey) – Classic Movie Review 2163

Director Paul Henreid casts his friend and sometime co-star Bette Davis, who hugely enjoys her lip-smacking double role as Margaret DeLorca and Edith Phillips, in the deliriously entertaining 1964 pot-boiling thriller Dead Ringer. After her […]

Feb, 10

Paths of Glory ***** (1957, Kirk Douglas, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready) – Classic Movie Review 1102

In 1957, director Stanley Kubrick confirmed his then growing reputation as one of the most promising film-makers of the era with this harsh, bleak and brilliant, fact-based World War One anti-war film about a French army mutiny […]

Apr, 16

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