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- 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
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- Liuben *** (2023, Dimitar Nikolov, Bojidar Iankov Asenov, Dimitar Banenkin, David de Gea, Stefan Denolyubov, Ramón Esquinas, Stoyan Radev, Antonia San Juan) – Classic Movie Review 13,249
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The Tuttles of Tahiti *** (1942, Charles Laughton, Jon Hall, Peggy Drake, Victor Francen, Florence Bates, Gene Reynolds, Curt Bois) – Classic Movie Review 6812
Director Charles Vidor’s pleasant, entertaining 1942 old-style South Seas island saga The Tuttles of Tahiti is based on a novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, the authors of Mutiny on the Bounty, with […]
Escape to Athena *** (1979, Roger Moore, David Niven, Elliott Gould, Sonny Bono, Telly Savalas, Claudia Cardinale, Stefanie Powers, Richard Roundtree) – Classic Movie Review 6792
Director George Pan Cosmatos’s game, high-spirited 1979 British war caper is endearingly daft hokum from Lord Grade just before Raise the Titanic sank his company, ITC, with an all-star cast in a World War Two […]
Eureka *** (1983, Gene Hackman, Theresa Russell, Rutger Hauer, Mickey Rourke, Joe Pesci) – Classic Movie Review 6616
Director Nicolas Roeg’s fascinating but uneasy 1983 film about the world’s richest man (Gene Hackman), Arctic prospector Jack McCann, who struck gold in 1925. Two decades on, he is a Citizen Kane figure who is having […]
Scared Stiff *** (1953, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Lizabeth Scott, Carmen Miranda) – Classic Movie Review 6611
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis star as nightclub lounge singer Larry Todd and his soppy busboy friend and partner Myron Mertz fleeing from a murder charge and washing up on a creepy Caribbean island recently […]
Terror Is a Man ** (1959, Francis Lederer, Greta Thyssen, Richard Derr) – Classic Movie Review 6542
Greta Thyssen plays the voluptuous wife of the secretive scientist Dr Charles Girard (Francis Lederer) in director Gerardo de Leon’s entertaining Z-movie version of H G Wells’s The Island of Dr Moreau. Richard Derr plays William Fitzgerald, who is shipwrecked on […]
Stromboli [Stromboli, Terra di Dio] **** (1949, Ingrid Bergman, Mario Vitale, Renzo Cesana) – Classic Movie Review 6522
Producer-director Roberto Rossellini’s beautiful, brooding and delicately done 1949 Italian neo-realist film tells his story about an attractive Lithuanian refugee called Karen (Ingrid Bergman) who marries a young Italian fisherman named Antonio (Mario Vitale) to escape […]
Escape from Alcatraz **** (1979, Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Roberts Blossom) – Classic Movie Review 6347
The only real-life escape from the infamous San Francisco island prison of Alcatraz in 1962 provides the true story for director Don [Donald] Siegel’s totally gripping 1979 Clint Eastwood thriller. Three inmates attempt a daring escape […]