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The Island Monster [Il mostro dell’isola] * (1954, Boris Karloff, Franca Marzi, Renato Vicario) – Classic Movie Review 5600

Seeking new work, Boris Karloff tries his luck in Italy, and plays Don Gaetano in writer-director Roberto Montero’s scrappy and pretty awful 1954 Italian crime thriller. In the unsurprising original story by Carlo Lombardo, an […]

Jun, 13

Voodoo Island *½ (1957, Boris Karloff, Elisha Cook Jr, Rhodes Reason, Beverly Tyler, Murvyn Vye) – Classic Movie Review 5596

The 1957 horror film Voodoo Island has Boris Karloff, voodoo, carnivorous plants, zombies, a lesbian subtext and Adam West’s debut. ‘SUPER-CHILL!’ Director Reginald Le Borg’s low-budget ($150,000) time-passing 1957 horror film Voodoo Island stars Boris Karloff, […]

Jun, 13

The Island * (1980, Michael Caine, David Warner, Angela Punch McGregor, Frank Middlemass) – Classic Movie Review 5548

The Jaws writer Peter Benchley adapts his own novel and comes back together with the Jaws producers Richard D Zanuck and David Brown for a movie they would no doubt rather forget. Probably Michael Caine isn’t too […]

Jun, 04

Beachhead **** (1954, Tony Curtis, Frank Lovejoy, Mary Murphy, Eduard Franz) – Classic Movie Review 5491

Director Stuart Heisler’s gritty, extremely decent little 1954 wartime action thriller unusually has a speaking cast of only seven, with just one woman – Tony Curtis, Frank Lovejoy, Mary Murphy, Eduard Franz, Skip Homeier, John […]

May, 24

The Red Turtle [La tortue rouge] *** (2016) – Movie Review

Dutch director Michael Dudok de Wit’s wordless 2016 animation for adults is sweet, appealing and beautifully crafted in wonderful visuals. With Studio Ghibli very unusually co-operating with a director outside Japan, it was Oscar nominated […]

May, 21

Johnny Allegro **** (1949, George Raft, George Macready, Nina Foch, Will Geer) – Classic Movie Review 5256

Director Ted Tetzlaff’s excellent 1949 film noir crime thriller stars George Raft as shady former crook Johnny Allegro, who escaped from Sing Sing prison but has now gone straight as a Los Angeles hotel lobby […]

Apr, 05

Jaws 2 *** (1978, Roy Scheider, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton) – Classic Movie Review 4899

Roy Scheider as Amity police chief Martin Brody, Lorraine Gary as his wife Ellen Brody and Murray Hamilton as wicked mayor Larry Vaughn repeat their roles in director Jeannot Szwarc’s welcome 1978 sequel to, and […]

Jan, 16

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