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The Devil at 4 O’Clock ** (1961, Spencer Tracy, Frank Sinatra, Kerwin Mathews) – Classic Movie Review 10,257

Producer-director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1961 Eastman Color adventure drama The Devil at 4 O’Clock is based on a novel by Max Catto and stars Spencer Tracy as hard-drinking priest Father Matthew Doonan, who enlists the reluctant […]

Sep, 02

The Beachcomber ** (1954, Glynis Johns, Robert Newton, Donald Sinden, Paul Rogers) – Classic Movie Review 10,168

Director Muriel Box’s 1954 British Technicolor drama The Beachcomber stars a well-cast Robert Newton, who catches the eye and ear as ‘Honorable Ted’ Wilson, an East Indies island drunk (Newton was himself a famous alcoholic), […]

Aug, 12

Beach Red *** (1967, Cornel Wilde, Rip Torn, Burr DeBenning) – Classic Movie Review 10,167

Producer-director Cornel Wilde’s 1967 war movie Beach Red stars Cornel Wilde as Captain MacDonald, the film’s narrator, and Rip Torn as the none too well named Sergeant Honeywell (‘That’s what we’re here for. To kill. […]

Aug, 12

Son of Godzilla [Kaijûtô no kessen: Gojira no musuko] * (1967, Tadao Takashima, Akira Kubo, Beverly Maeda) – Classic Movie Review 9960

Son of Godzilla [Kaijûtô no kessen: Gojira no musuko] (1967) is the second of five films in the series directed by Jun Fukuda (1923–2000). Another island themed Japanese kaiju film adventure, it is the eighth film […]

Jun, 26

Ebirah, Terror of the Deep [Gojira, Ebirâ, Mosura: Nankai no daiketto] ** (1966, Akira Takarada, Kumi Mizuno, Chôtarô Tôgin) – Classic Movie Review 9947

Director Jun Fukuda’s Japanese horror movie 1966 Ebirah, Terror of the Deep [Gojira, Ebirâ, Mosura: Nankai no daiketto] [Ebirah, Horror of the Deep] [Godzilla vs the Sea Monster] showcases the giant Sea Monster Ebirâ/ Ebirah, […]

Jun, 22

Hour of the Wolf [Vargtimmen] **** (1968, Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Gertrud Fridh, Erland Josephson, Ingrid Thulin) – Classic Movie Review 9922

Director Ingmar Bergman draws on his own recurring nightmares for his troubling 1968 Swedish psychological horror film Hour of the Wolf [Vargtimmen], which stars Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann in a story about the […]

Jun, 16

SOS Pacific ** (1959, Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli, John Gregson, Eddie Constantine, Eva Bartok) – Classic Movie Review 9853

It is SOS Pacific when those still alive after an aircraft smashes on to a Pacific tropical island discover to their horror that an atom bomb is due to be detonated in their close proximity. […]

Jun, 01

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