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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ***** (1953, Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn, Norma Varden, Tommy Noonan, Taylor Holmes, Elliott Reid) – Classic Movie Review 915
Howard Hawks’s glorious 1953 Technicolor musical film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is perfectly tailored to the very special talents of Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell, seen at their enchanting best as singer gold-diggers Dorothy and Lorelei. […]
Bringing Up Baby – Classic Film Review 682
Director Howard Hawks’s 1938 classic is the quintessential 30s screwball comedy, providing a perfect showcase for the ultimate in polished zany performances from its all-time great stars Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. In the engagingly […]
Land of the Pharaohs *** (1955, Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins, James Robertson Justice) – So Bad It’s Good Movie 1
The laughable 1955 ancient Egyptian historical epic Land of the Pharaohs is a total misfire. It’s very, very bad indeed, but nevertheless great, camp fun for collectors of terrible movies and those who like to […]
Red River ***** (1948, John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 275
Producer-director Howard Hawks’s mammoth epic 1948 classic Western gives John Wayne one of his best ever roles as Thomas ‘Tom’ Dunson, a tyrannical empire-building cattleman. He seems to relish kicking up the dust, playing opposite […]
The Big Sleep ***** (1946, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone, Regis Toomey, Charles Waldron, Charles D Brown, Elisha Cook Jr) – Classic Movie Review 69
Director Howard Hawks turns Raymond Chandler’s hardboiled novel The Big Sleep into a brilliantly atmospheric, edge-of-seat suspenseful and exciting film noir masterpiece. Humphrey Bogart is everyone’s idea of Chandler’s cynical anti-hero, the smooth, cocksure if […]
The Thing From Another World ***** (1951, Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, James Arness) – Classic Movie Review 54
‘Watch the skies, everywhere! Keep looking. Keep watching the skies!’ This distinguished, influential and imaginatively staged 1951 vintage sci-fi horror thriller, remade by John Carpenter with Kurt Russell as The Thing in 1982, is still a […]
Scarface ***** (1932, Paul Muni, George Raft, Boris Karloff, Osgood Perkins) – Classic Movie Review 52
Based on the novel by Armitage Trail, director Howard Hawks’s 1932 release is still an all-time great gangster movie, and wears remarkably well given its venerable age. It’s a troubling, but thrillingly exciting film, a […]