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Ebb Tide *** (1937, Oskar Homolka, Frances Farmer, Ray Milland, Barry Fitzgerald, Lloyd Nolan) – Classic Movie Review 7225

Director James Hogan’s 1937 Paramount Pictures adventure Ebb Tide is a robust but downbeat drama about three boozy sailor adventurers (Ray Milland as Robert Herrick, Oscar Homolka as captain Robert Herrick and Barry Fitzgerald as Huish), who are hit […]

Jun, 26

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom *** (2018, Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Pratt, Ted Levine, Jeff Goldblum) – Movie Review

It plays like a video game, has very little story to speak of, two likeable stars battling blue screen to produce performances, some miscast British actors struggling, and an irritating little girl at the centre […]

Jun, 07

None But the Brave *** (1965, Frank Sinatra, Clint Walker, Tommy Sands, Tony Bill, Brad Dexter, Tatsuya Mihashi) – Classic Movie Review 7075

Frank Sinatra directs himself for the first time in this quality 1965 World War Two war drama about a platoon of US Marines who crash-land on a tiny far-off island in the Pacific, where they […]

May, 21

Typhoon *** (1940, Dorothy Lamour, Robert Preston, Lynne Overman, J Carrol Naish, Frank Reicher, Jack Carson) – Classic Movie Review 6993

The admirable Dorothy Lamour stars again in director Louis King’s jolly, carefully contrived 1940 film vehicle for her as Dea, a beautiful island girl, cast away on the island from when she was a child, discovered […]

May, 03

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society *** (2018, Lily James, Michiel Huisman, Matthew Goode, Penelope Wilton) – Movie Review

Despite its faults, Mike Newell’s picturesque period romantic drama, set in the aftermath of World War Two, is compelling and its accompanying mystery is intriguing. It comes from the producers of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, […]

Apr, 23

Swiss Family Robinson **** (1960, John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Tommy Kirk, Kevin Corcoran, Janet Munro, Sussue Hayakawa, Cecil Parker) – Classic Movie Review 6933

Director Ken Annakin’s 1960 young people’s adventure movie Swiss Family Robinson is an old-style treat, a happy, well-produced, and thoroughly entertaining Disney version of the shipwrecked family stranded on a desert island saga. Based on […]

Apr, 16

Safe in Hell **** (1931, Dorothy Mackaill, Donald Cook, Ralf Harolde, Nina Mae McKinney, Charles Middleton, Clarence Muse) – Classic Movie Review 6,835

Warner Bros’ fascinating and provocative 1931 crime drama film Safe in Hell stars Dorothy Mackaill as Gilda Karlson, a New Orleans hooker who flees to a Caribbean island after apparently killing Piet Van Saal (Ralf […]

Mar, 20

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