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- Hand in Hand *** (1960, Loretta Parry, Philip Needs, Sybil Thorndike, John Gregson, Finlay Currie, Derek Sydney, Miriam Karlin, Kathleen Byron) – Classic Movie Review 13,327
- Attempt to Kill ** (1961, Tony Wright, Derek Farr, Richard Pearson, Freda Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 13,326
- A Hitch in Time *** (1978, Patrick Troughton, Michael McVey, Pheona McLellan, Jeff Rawle, Sorcha Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 13,325
- Man at the Carlton Tower *** (1961, Maxine Audley, Lee Montague, Alfred Burke, Allan Cuthbertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,324
- Beyond the Door [Chi Sei?] [The Devil Within Her] * (1974, Juliet Mills, Richard Johnson, Gabriele Lavia, Elizabeth Turner, David Colin Jr) – Classic Movie Review 13,323
- Beyond the Door II [Schock] *** (1979, Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, David Colin Jr, Ivan Rassimov) – Classic Movie Review 13,322
- Blood Red ** (1989, Eric Roberts, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Hopper, Burt Young) – Classic Movie Review 13,321
- The Fourth Square *** (1961, Conrad Phillips, Natasha Parry, Delphi Lawrence, Miriam Karlin, Jacqueline Jones, Anthony Newlands, Basil Dignam, Harold Kasket) – Classic Movie Review 13,316
- Black Memory *** (1947, Michael Atkinson, Michael Medwin, Myra O’Connell, Jane Arden, Frank Hawkins) – Classic Movie Review 13,320
- The Velvet Touch **** (1948, Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Sydney Greenstreet, Claire Trevor, Leon Ames, Frank McHugh, Walter Kingsford) – Classic Movie Review 13,319
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The Batman *** (1943, Lewis Wilson, Douglas Croft, J Carrol Naish) – Classic Movie Review 5109
Director Lambert Hillyer’s wartime 1943 vintage 15-part film serial The Batman is exceptionally lively and enjoyable. It is notable as the first ever screen appearance of the Caped Crusader, giving Lewis Wilson the honour of […]
Pride of the Marines ***½ (1945, John Garfield, Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark, Ann Doran, John Ridgely) – Classic Movie Review 4763
Co-writer/ director Delmer Daves’s 1945 biographical war drama film tells the true-life story of Al Schmid (John Garfield), the American Marine war hero blinded by a grenade while holding off the Japanese against impossible odds in a heroic stand […]
Australia *** (2008, Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Bryan Brown, Ray Barrett, Arthur Dignam, Bill Hunter, David Gulpilil, Ben Mendelsohn, Barry Otto, David Wenham) – Classic Movie Review 4526
Oscar-winner Nicole Kidman had to learn not only her lines but also how to be a feisty cowgirl and perform the most gruelling stunts for co-writer/ director Baz Luhrmann’s enjoyable old-style Outback romantic epic, the […]
Fist of Fury [Jing wu men] *** (1972, Bruce Lee, Nora Miao, James Tien, Jackie Chan, Robert Baker) – Classic Movie Review 4458
Bruce Lee shines again in his enjoyable and entertaining 1972 Hong Kong martial arts film follow-up to his first smash hit The Big Boss (1971), again written and directed by Lo Wei. Lee plays Chen […]
Ran ***** (1985, Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Mieko Harada, Pîtâ) – Classic Movie Review 3733
Director Akira Kurosawa’s thrilling, marvellous-looking 1985 version of William Shakespeare’s play King Lear is transposed to 16th-century feudal Japan, with the senile old man now a warlord called Lord Hidetora Ichimonji (Tatsuya Nakadai) who cedes his kingdom […]
Hell in the Pacific **** (1968, Lee Marvin, Toshiro Mifune) – Classic Movie Review 3459
Those great tough guys of different cultures Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune star as an American pilot and a Japanese naval officer called Captain Tsuruhiko Kuroda, brought together by fate on a small uninhabited island […]
Air Force **** (1943, John Garfield, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy, Charles Drake, John Ridgley, George Tobias, James Brown, Harry Carey Sr) – Classic Movie Review 3172
Director Howard Hawks’s extremely well made and rousing 1943 patriotic wartime flag-waving drama about the American crew of an Air Force Boeing B17 bomber named the Mary Ann on a Far East mission in 1941 […]