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Anne of Windy Poplars ** (1940, Anne Shirley, James Ellison, Henry Travers, Patric Knowles) – Classic Movie Review 10,481

Anne Shirley is back as the imaginative orphan lass Anne Shirley in Jack Hively’s 1940 Anne of Windy Poplars, a second attractive but not quite so appealing RKO adaptation of Lucy Maud Montgomery children’s classic, […]

Oct, 30

Die Nibelungen **** (1924, Paul Richter, Margarete Schön, Hanna Ralph, Theodor Loos, Gertrud Arnold) – Classic Movie Review 8703

Director Fritz Lang’s 1924 German silent classic The Nibelungen [Die Nibelungen] stars Paul Richter as Siegfried, who marries the princess of Burgundy, Kriemhild (Margarete Schön) but Queen Brunhilde (Hanna Ralph) plans his murder. Lang’s beautifully […]

Jul, 13

Hercules *** (1997, voices of Tate Donovan, Danny DeVito, Susan Egan, James Woods) – Classic Movie Review 8182

Directors Ron Clements and John Musker’s prestigious and classy 1997 animated musical fantasy comedy Hercules is the 35th Disney animated feature film, loosely based on the legendary hero Hercules, the son of Zeus, in Greek […]

Feb, 28

Zorro: The Gay Blade **(1981, George Hamilton, Lauren Hutton, Brenda Vaccaro, Ron Leibman, James Booth) – Classic Movie Review 7971

George Hamilton tries to repeat the success of his 1979 Love at First Bite Dracula spoof to less avail in director Peter Medak’s silly send-up of The Mark of Zorro. Hamilton is pretty amusing in […]

Jan, 01

The Legend of the Lone Ranger ** (1981, Klinton Spilsbury, Michael Horse, Christopher Lloyd, Matt Clark, Jason Robards) – Classic Movie Review 6161

‘Who was that masked man?’ ‘I don’t know, he was wearing a mask!’ With a half-hearted hearty heigh-ho Silver, Klinton Spilsbury dons Clayton Moore’s old mask as the Lone Ranger in director William A Fraker’s […]

Oct, 30

The Young Lions *** (1958, Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin, Maximilian Schell, Hope Lange, Barbara Rush, May Britt) – Classic Movie Review 6087

Director Edward Dmytryk’s intelligent, thought-provoking 1958 war movie brings to the screen Irwin Shaw’s popular novel about the World War Two fates of two American soldiers – playboy entertainer Michael Whiteacre (Dean Martin), Jewish-American Noah Ackerman […]

Oct, 12

The One That Got Away **** (1957, Hardy Kruger, Michael Goodliffe, Terence Alexander, Colin Gordon, Alec McCowen) – Classic Movie Review 5790

Director Roy Ward Baker’s exciting 1957 British wartime adventure film The One That Got Away stars Berlin-born Hardy Kruger, who came to Britain to play Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the real-life German wartime pilot shot […]

Jul, 19

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