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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 […]

Mar, 06

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 […]

Dec, 05

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 […]

Oct, 24

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 […]

Oct, 05

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 […]

May, 21

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 […]

Mar, 07

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 […]

Dec, 19

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