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- The Return of the Whistler **½ (1948, Michael Duane, Lenore Aubert, Richard Lane) – Classic Movie Review 13,259
- Steamboat Round the Bend **** (1935, Will Rogers, Anne Shirley, Eugene Pallette) – Classic Movie Review 13,258
- In Old Kentucky *** (1935, Will Rogers, Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson, Dorothy Wilson, Russell Hardie, Louise Henry, Charles Sellon) – Classic Movie Review 13,257
- The Thirteenth Hour *** (1947, Richard Dix, Karen Morley, John Kellogg, Jim Bannon, Regis Toomey) – Classic Movie Review 13,256
- Guns of Darkness ** (1962, David Niven, Leslie Caron, James Robertson Justice, David Opatoshu) – Classic Movie Review 13,255
- Walk on Water **** (2004, Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters) – Classic Movie Review 13,254
- The Secret of the Whistler *** (1946, Richard Dix, Leslie Brooks, Michael Duane, Mary Currier, Mona Barrie, Claire Du Brey) – Classic Movie Review 13,253
- Kiss the Boys Goodbye **½ (1941, Don Ameche, Mary Martin, Oscar Levant) – Classic Movie Review 13,252
- Forbidden Cargo ** (1954, Nigel Patrick, Elizabeth Sellars, Terence Morgan, Jack Warner, Greta Gynt, Joyce Grenfell, Theodore Bikel) – Classic Movie Review 13,251
- Voice of the Whistler **½ (1945, Richard Dix, Lynn Merrick, Rhys Williams, James Cardwell) – Classic Movie Review 13,250
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Six Days Seven Nights ** (1998, Harrison Ford, Anne Heche, David Schwimmer) – Movie Review 2102
Harrison Ford is especially amusing in director Ivan Reitman’s very acceptable 1998 mix of romance and adventure in the old style, though Six Days Seven Nights is looking to be another African Queen and of […]
Treasure Island **** (1934, Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore) – Classic Movie Review 2060
‘You ain’t gonna let honesty stand in the way o’ bein’ smart? ‘ – Long John Silver. Director Victor Fleming’s 1934 adventure movie is a splendidly rambunctious, rumbustious retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1883 classic young […]
Kon-Tiki **** (2012, Pål Sverre Hagen) – Movie Review
Directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg’s riveting real-life sea-faring tale is excitingly told, with a couple of twists at the end, one of them the thrilling big finish. This is the manly story of legendary famous Norwegian […]
Carlton-Browne of the F O *** (1959, Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Luciana Paluzzi) – Classic Movie Review 1848
Co-writer/co-director Roy Boulting and his producer brother John Boulting turn their attention to sending up the British Foreign Office in 1959 in another one of their series of highly successful satirical comedies of the period. […]
The Most Dangerous Game [The Hounds of Zaroff] ***** (1932, Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks) – Classic Movie Review 1724
Directors Ernest B Schoedsack and Irving Pichel’s still haunting, potent and chilling 1932 horror thriller stars an inspired Leslie Banks as Count Zaroff, a mad Russian nobleman who arranges for a ship to be wrecked […]
Rockets Galore! *** (1958, Donald Sinden, Jeannie Carson, Roland Culver, Jean Cadell, Gordon Jackson, Ronnie Corbett) – Classic Movie Review 1642
Co-producer/ director Michael Relph’s belated 1958 sequel to the 1949 hit Whisky Galore! is friendly, pleasant and amusing, but not always sparkling and sometimes sluggish. Nice though it is, it doesn’t have quite the same spark […]
Chill Factor ** (1999, Cuba Gooding Jnr, Skeet Ulrich) – Classic Movie Review 1485
Director Hugh Johnson’s 1999 release has its moments but it is a sluggish, formulaic, unbelievable Speed-style chase thriller, with engaging performances from the likeable stars giving it a bit of a lift. Cuba Gooding Jnr […]