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Them! **** (1954, James Whitmore, Joan Weldon, James Arness, Edmund Gwenn, Onslow Stevens, Fess Parker, William Schallert, Dub Taylor, Leonard Nimoy) – Classic Movie Review 3720

Director Gordon Douglas’s vintage 1954 sci-fi horror thriller Them! is still good fun thanks to the taut pace and admirably serious approach he brings to it. It was nominated for an Oscar for Best Special Effects. […]

May, 19

Madigan **** (1968, Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Harry Guardino, Inger Stevens, James Whitmore, Susan Clark, Steve Ihnat, Don Stroud, Sheree North) – Classic Movie Review 2564

Director Don Siegel’s exciting 1968 police thriller Madigan stars the 57-year-old Richard Widmark, who gives a most compelling star turn as the tough New York City detective of the title, who sets out with his […]

Jun, 07

Nuts **** (1987, Barbra Streisand, Richard Dreyfuss, Maureen Stapleton) – Classic Movie Review 2274

Director Martin Ritt’s 1987 drama stars Barbra Streisand, who works her fingernails to the bone for credibility as a parentally abused high-class call girl, Claudia Draper, who has killed one of her clients called Allen […]

Mar, 17

Planet of the Apes ***** (1968, Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter) – Classic Movie Review 1424

Based on Pierre Boulle’s 1963 French novel Monkey Planet (La Planète des singes) , director Franklin J Schaffner’s awesome 1968 sci-fi adventure gives Charlton Heston one of his most memorable roles as George Taylor, an astronaut […]

Jul, 13

Oklahoma! ***** (1955, Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Gloria Grahame, Rod Steiger, Gene Nelson) – Classic Movie Review 207

Director Fred Zinnemann’s 1955 evergreen classic musical is the absolutely glorious, definitive movie of the 1943 Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II hit show, imaginatively filmed by cinematographer Robert Surtees in Todd-AO widescreen and Technicolor […]

Aug, 31

The Relic ****½ (1997, Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore, Linda Hunt, James Whitmore) – Classic Movie Review 12

Something wicked this way comes! Must-see monster movie The Relic (1997). Something wicked this way comes! A now-missing anthropologist investigating the culture of lost tribes has mysteriously sent crates of leaves from the Amazon jungle […]

Jul, 01

The Shawshank Redemption ***** (1994, Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, James Whitmore) – Classic Movie Review 7

Is this the best movie made from a Stephen King bestseller? Yes it is – though anybody who sat through Graveyard Shift, Needful Things, Sleepwalkers, The Dark Half and Cujo (I speak as one who […]

Jun, 28

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