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The Crowd Roars **** (1938, Robert Taylor, Edward Arnold, Frank Morgan, Maureen O’Sullivan, William Gargan) – Classic Movie Review 8895
Director Richard Thorpe’s tough 1938 MGM black and white boxing drama The Crowd Roars stars pretty boy Robert Taylor [real name Spangler Arlington Brugh] as Tommy McCoy, who fights his way through to a manlier […]
Great Guy ** (1936, James Cagney, Mae Clarke, James Burke) – Classic Movie Review 7620
James Cagney is the great guy here all right in director John G Blystone’s overly cost-conscious 1936 Great Guy [aka Pluck of the Irish], an independent production from poverty row studio Grand National Pictures, with the […]
Terrible Joe Moran *** (1984, James Cagney, Art Carney, Ellen Barkin, Peter Gallagher) – Classic Movie Review 5940
Director Joseph Sargent’s 1984 drama stars James Cagney in his final film and sole TV film. Infirm and at the age of 84, he gives a likeable performance as Joe Moran, a retired, disabled, wheelchair-using […]
True Confessions **** (1981, Robert Duvall, Robert De Niro, Charles Durning) – Classic Movie Review 5811
Director Ulu Grosbard’s fully-fleshed-out, stimulating and intelligent 1981 thriller is adapted from John Gregory Dunne’s novel about a Forties detective bent on solving the brutal murder case of a young prostitute, in a trail that […]
Only the Lonely *** (1991, John Candy, Maureen O’Hara, Ally Sheedy) – Classic Movie Review 5773
Writer-director Chris Columbus’s 1991 comedy stars John Candy as timid middle-aged Chicago cop Billy Muldoon who wants to throw off his nagging old bat of a domineering Irish mother (Maureen O’Hara) and marry nice Polish-Italian […]
The Last Hurrah **** (1958, Spencer Tracy, Jeffrey Hunter, Dianne Foster, John Carradine, Basil Rathbone, Pat O’Brien) – Classic Movie Review 3388
Director John Ford’s well-staged, effectively acted and involving if rather cosy and cuddly 1958 political drama The Last Hurrah is the second of his three distinguished films with young star Jeffrey Hunter, following The Searchers […]
She’s the One *** (1996, Edward Burns, Mike McGlone, Jennifer Aniston, Cameron Diaz, John Mahoney) – Classic Movie Review 1608
‘A film about love, marriage, happiness…and the little distractions in between.’ Sounds frightful, doesn’t it? But don’t let the poster put you off. Writer-director Edward Burns, maker of the 1995 indie hit The Brothers McMullen, […]