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Francis [Francis the Talking Mule] ** (1950, Donald O’Connor, Patricia Medina, Zasu Pitts) – Classic Movie Review 9388

Tony (Anthony) Curtis is still struggling to make his mark in the movies, playing Captain Jones, in the first Francis the Talking Mule film… Donald O’Connor stars as truthful bumbling World War Two soldier Lieutenant […]

Feb, 15

Francis in the Navy ** (1955, Donald O’Connor, Martha Hyer, Richard Erdman, Jim Backus, Clint Eastwood, David Janssen) – Classic Movie Review 9387

Look out for an early appearance by Clint Eastwood in a Talking Mule flick. Director Arthur Lubin’s 1955 American black-and-white comedy film Francis in the Navy (1955) is the sixth film in the mysteriously popular […]

Feb, 15

The World’s Greatest Lover *** (1977, Gene Wilder, Carol Kane, Dom DeLuise) – Classic Movie Review 9230

Writer-producer-director-star Gene Wilder goes every which way for laughs in his 1977 Twenties Hollywood send-up The World’s Greatest Lover – and raises quite a high score of them. He plays Milwaukee baker Rudy Hickman who […]

Jan, 06

Far North ** (1988, Jessica Lange, Charles Durning, Tess Harper, Donald Moffat, Ann Wedgeworth, Patricia Arquette) – Classic Movie Review 9184

Jessica Lange stars in the gentle 1988 family comedy-drama Far North, written and directed by her partner, Pulitzer Prize-Winning playwright Sam Shepard, about a New York career woman who returns home after her father (Charles […]

Dec, 22

The Savage Guns [Tierra brutal] ** (1962, Richard Basehart, Don Taylor, Alex Nicol, Paquita Rico) – Classic Movie Review 9103

Don Taylor stars as a peaceful rancher named Mike Summers, who is plagued by bad guys led by the local land baron Ortega (José Nieto) but is helped by a wounded good guy gunslinger called Steve […]

Nov, 27

Dead Cert * (1974, Scott Antony, Judi Dench, Michael Williams) – Classic Movie Review 9047

The Dick Francis bestseller novel about doped horses, a trainer’s death and the Grand National race must have looked a dead cert for the cinema. But director Tony Richardson’s 1974 film Dead Cert soon falls […]

Nov, 03

The Devil’s Disciple *** (1959, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Eva Le Gallienne, Janette Scott, Harry Andrews, Basil Sydney) – Classic Movie Review 8997

Despite the special cast, director Guy Hamilton’s 1959 black and white comedy drama The Devil’s Disciple is an only so-so film of George Bernard Shaw’s intriguing play about Dick Dudgeon (Kirk Douglas), the son of […]

Oct, 20

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