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1492: Conquest of Paradise ** (1992, Gérard Depardieu, Armand Assante, Sigourney Weaver) – Classic Movie Review 8355

Director Ridley Scott’s celebratory 1992 historical adventure film biopic 1492: Conquest of Paradise is a stodgily told account of Christopher Columbus’s voyages to America, with a dull central performance by a miscast Gérard Depardieu, struggling […]

Apr, 11

The Nebraskan ** (1953, Philip Carey, Roberta Haynes, Wallace Ford, Richard Webb, Lee Van Cleef, Maurice Jara, Regis Toomey, Jay Silverheels) – Classic Movie Review 8340

Director Fred F Sears’s 1953 Columbia Western movie The Nebraskan stars Philip Carey [Phil Carey] as US Army frontier scout Wade Harper, who makes friends with an Indian comrade Wingfoot (Maurice Jara) while on a […]

Apr, 07

Green Hell ** (1940, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Joan Bennett, John Howard, George Sanders, Vincent Price, Alan Hale Sr, George Bancroft) – Classic Movie Review 7421

The exceptional director James Whale and an out-of-the-rut cast (Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Joan Bennett, George Sanders, Vincent Price) lift producer Harry Eddington’s in-the-rut 1940 adventure movie about South American natives attacking a jungle expedition searching […]

Aug, 09

The Plainsman ** (1966, Don Murray, Guy Stockwell, Abbie Dalton, Leslie Nielsen, Bradford Dillman, Henry Silva, Simon Oakland) – Classic Movie Review 6840

Don Murray stars as Wild Bill Hickok and Guy Stockwell plays Buffalo Bill Cody in director David Lowell Rich’s plush, handsome but dramatically rather tepid 1966 remake of the Cecil B DeMille Thirties vintage Western […]

Mar, 21

Last of the Comanches *** (1953, Broderick Crawford, Barbara Hale, Lloyd Bridges, Johnny Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 6690

Director André De Toth brings adroit, way more than merely just adequate handling to a standard, unsurprising US Cavalry versus the Indians tale about a group of stranded soldiers facing a remorseless Native American raid […]

Feb, 14

Joe Dirt * (2001, David Spade, Brittany Daniel, Dennis Miller, Adam Beach, Christopher Walken, Jamie Pressly) – Classic Movie Review 6171

Written by David Spade and Fred Wolf, and directed by Dennie Gordon in 2001, this is a dire, desperate, and laugh-free slapstick comedy from Happy Madison and Columbia. It is a chilly, fun-free zone. A […]

Nov, 01

Anita & Me [Anita and Me] ** (2002, Chandeep Uppal, Anna Brewster, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Max Beesley, Kathy Burke, Kabir Bedi, Lynn Redgrave, Omid Djalili) – Classic Movie Review 5887

Director Metin Hüseyin’s amiable but weak and stereotypical British 2002 comedy is set in the early Seventies in an English Midlands mining village, where the 12-year-old heroine, Meena Kumar (Chandeep Uppal) has a crush on her […]

Aug, 09

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