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- The Senator [O Senador] **½ (2024, Sergio Harger, Johnny Alcántara, Juliana Zancanaro, João Cury) – Classic Movie Review 13,212
- Rogue’s Yarn * (1957, Nicole Maurey, Derek Bond) – Classic Movie Review 13,211
- Crow Hollow ** (1952, Donald Houston, Natasha Parry, Patricia Owens) – Classic Movie Review 13,210
- Carny *** (1980, Gary Busey, Jodie Foster, Robbie Robertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,209
- Carnival Story ** (1954, Anne Baxter, Steve Cochran, Lyle Bettger, George Nader, Jay C Flippen) – Classic Movie Review 13,208
- The Weaker Sex * (1948, Ursula Jeans, Cecil Parker, Joan Hopkins, Derek Bond, Lana Morris, Thora Hird) – Classic Movie Review 13,207
- The Great Smokey Roadblock [The Last of the Cowboys] *** (1977, Henry Fonda, Eileen Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 13,206
- The Astronaut Lovers [Los Amantes Astronautas] *** (2024, Javier Orán, Lautaro Bettoni, Ailín Salas) – Classic Movie Review 13,205
- Butterfly [Mariposa] *** (2015, Ailín Salas, Javier De Pietro, Malena Villa, Julián Infantino, Justo Calabria) – Classic Movie Review 13,204
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Bear Island ** (1979, Donald Sutherland, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee, Barbara Parkins, Lloyd Bridges) – Classic Movie Review 6258
Director Don Sharp’s 1979 Canadian-British film Bear Island is yet another Seventies movie version of one of Alistair MacLean’s popular action suspense thrillers, this time his 1971 bestseller, shifting more than eight million copies. This […]
The Whip Hand * (1951, Elliott Reid, Carla Balenda, Edgar Barrier, Raymond Burr, Otto Waldis, Michael Steele, Laurene Tuttle) – Classic Movie Review 6247
This tale about Communists holed up in a New England town and plotting to take over the US via germ warfare was originally a story about Adolf Hitler hiding in a town after the war, […]
The Land that Time Forgot *** (1974, Doug McClure, John McEnery, Susan Penhaligon, Keith Barron) – Classic Movie Review 6222
Director Kevin Connor’s decent 1974 British World War One fantasy adventure yarn The Land that Time Forgot has the traditional obligatory minor American film star Doug McClure at the helm as the hero Bowen Tyler. […]
Joe Versus the Volcano *** (1990, Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, Abe Vigoda, Dan Hedaya, Ossie Davis) – Classic Movie Review 6172
Writer-director John Patrick Shanley’s 1990 dark-toned romantic comedy, satirising and updating Hollywood’s Forties escapist adventure melodramas, is appealing and engaging, even though it is extremely shakily written by Shanley, the Oscar-winning author of Moonstruck. Nevertheless, […]
Heaven Knows, Mr Allison **** (1957, Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr) – Classic Movie Review 6,166
John Huston’s popular 1957 drama movie Heaven Knows, Mr Allison teams Robert Mitchum as a laconic US marine corporal with Deborah Kerr as a nun, stranded together on a Japanese-occupied island in the Pacific Ocean in 1944. Co-writer/ […]
Dreyfus [The Dreyfus Case] *** (1931, Cedric Hardwicke, George Merritt, Charles Carson, Sam Livesey, Garry Marsh, Randle Ayrton, George Zucco) – Classic Movie Review 6142
Cedric Hardwicke stars as the real-life French-Jewish officer Captain Alfred Dreyfus, who is accused and convicted of spying in 1890s France, after German staff had forged evidence to convict him, ending up doing life on […]
Horror Island ** (1941, Dick Foran, Leo Carrillo, Peggy Moran, Fuzzy Knight, John Eldredge, Walter Catlett) – Classic Movie Review 6139
Director George Waggner’s run-of-the-mill 1941 Universal comedy chiller is set in a fog-swathed, spooky castle where B-movie actors are cast as daffy adventurers who are bumped off as they search for treasure. There are some […]