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Young Mr Lincoln **** (1939, Henry Fonda, Alice Brady, Marjorie Weaver, Arleen Whelan) – Classic Movie Review 7495

Director John Ford’s 1939 black and white historical drama Young Mr Lincoln stars the young Henry Fonda, who gives a good account of himself in one of his most famous roles as baby Abe Lincoln. It […]

Aug, 25

Wrong Again *** (1929, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dell Henderson, Josephine Crowell, Harry Bernard) – Classic Movie Review 7414

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are on good form in director Leo McCarey’s bizarre and amusing 1929 20-minute two-reel farcical comedy Wrong Again, written by H M Walker (titles), based on a story by Lewis R […]

Aug, 08

Ma and Pa Kettle *** (1949, Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Richard Long, Meg Randall, Esther Dale) – Classic Movie Review 7,235

Sweet character actors Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride get their chance for stardom in the 1949 American comedy film Ma and Pa Kettle when two of the characters from Betty MacDonald’s 1947 semi-fictional memoir book […]

Jun, 30

Kentucky *** (1938, Loretta Young, Richard Greene, Walter Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 7158

Director David Butler’s 1938 Kentucky is simple, clean-cut romantic and sporting drama, but it is still quite good vintage entertainment. There is rivalry at the Kentucky horse-racing farms in this soapy but amusing story of […]

Jun, 12

Westward Ho, the Wagons! *** (1956, Fess Parker, Kathleen Crowley, Jeff York) – Classic Movie Review 7155

Director William Beaudine’s 1956 Westward Ho, the Wagons! is a Walt Disney Wild West adventure for family consumption that lacks both the kind of vim and grit we expect from Westerns but it is entirely […]

Jun, 11

The White Buffalo *** (1977, Charles Bronson, Jack Warden, Will Sampson, Kim Novak, Clint Walker, Stuart Whitman, John Carradine, Slim Pickens) – Classic Movie Review 7105

Director J Lee Thompson’s intriguingly bizarre 1977 symbolic Western The White Buffalo stars Charles Bronson in one of his better roles as the haunted, dying Wild Bill Hickok, who is stalking a murderous white buffalo […]

May, 30

Susan Slade *** (1961, Troy Donahue, Dorothy McGuire, Connie Stevens) – Classic Movie Review 6821

Writer-producer-director Delmer Daves’s plush and effective coming-of-age weepie is based on Doris Hume’s novel The Sin of Susan Slade and centres on precocious Susan Slade (Connie Stevens), a teenage daughter who gets pregnant, after a […]

Mar, 18

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