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A Day at the Races **** (1937, Marx Brothers, Margaret Dumont, Maureen O’Sullivan, Alan Jones) – Classic Movie Review 1404

Director Sam Wood’s 1937 Marx Brothers comedy gem A Day at the Races stars Groucho Marx as horse doctor Hugo Z Hackenbush who is romancing (as always) the redoubtable Margaret Dumont, this time playing rich […]

Jul, 08

The Misfits ***** (1961, Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Eli Wallach, Thelma Ritter) – Classic Movie Review 1365

Director John Huston’s and playwright/screenwriter Arthur Miller’s 1961 modern-day Western is brilliantly strange and striking. It focuses on the lives of a quartet of loveable losers (‘the misfits’), who embark on a chase for symbolic horses against […]

Jun, 27

The Magnificent Seven ***** (1960, Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, James Coburn, Charles Bronson, Horst Buchholz, Brad Dexter) – Classic Movie Review 1362

Producer-director John Sturges’s memorable 1960 Western is deservedly greatly admired and much loved. It stars Yul Brynner in one of his best and most famous roles as the honourable and steadfast gunfighter Chris Adams, who recruits […]

Jun, 25

Seabiscuit **** (2003, Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges, Chris Cooper, William H Macy) – Classic Movie Review 1101

Co-producer/writer/director Gary Ross’s 2003 lovingly crafted real-life adventure story/ sports drama stars the 28-year-old Tobey Maguire. He rides to victory as Red, a young drifter given a second chance by millionaire Charles Howard (Jeff Bridges) as his […]

Apr, 15

Goin’ South **** (1978, Jack Nicholson, Mary Steenburgen, Christopher Lloyd, John Belushi) – Classic Movie Review 937

Jack Nicholson directs an enjoyable, rollicking romantic comedy Western, with a delightfully quirky screenplay based on the story by John Herman Shaner and Al Ramrus. It’s the middle one of only three films Nicholson has directed, […]

Mar, 18

The Last Days of Pompeii [Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei] *** (1959, Steve Reeves, Christine Kaufmann, Fernando Rey) – Classic Movie Review 921

‘The Fiery Summit of Spectacle as the Screen is Swept by Scenes That Stagger the Imagination!’ Director Mario Bonnard and Sergio Leone’s 1959 movie (aka originally Gli Ultimi Giorni di Pompeii) is an engaging Italian historical […]

Mar, 16

The White Ribbon (2009, Michael Haneke) – Classic Film Review 784

Austrian director Michael (Hidden, Funny Games) Haneke’s chilling – and chilly – 2009 Cannes Film Festival Golden Palm-winning work about abused children in a small God-fearing Protestant village in north Germany just before World War […]

Feb, 01

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