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Island of Lost Men *** (1939, Anna May Wong, J Carrol Naish, Anthony Quinn, Broderick Crawford, Eric Blore, Ernest Truex) – Classic Movie Review 10,746

Director Kurt Neumann’s 1939 black and white crime thriller film Island of Lost Men is a stock adventure yarn in which oriental daughter cabaret singer Kim Ling (Anna May Wong) discovers that her absconded Chinese […]

Jan, 03

Jivaro [Lost Treasure of the Amazon] ** (1954, Fernando Lamas, Rhonda Fleming, Brian Keith, Lon Chaney Jr, Richard Denning, Marvin Miller, Rita Moreno) – Classic Movie Review 10,553

In 1954 Rhonda Fleming starred with Fernando Lamas in Jivaro, her third 3D movie, following Those Redheads from Seattle with Gene Barry and Inferno with Robert Ryan. Director Edward Ludwig’s 1953 Jivaro [Lost Treasure of the Amazon] […]

Nov, 17

Panama Lady *** (1939, Lucille Ball, Allan Lane, Steffi Duna, Donald Briggs) – Classic Movie Review 9894

Director Jack Hively’s lively 1939 RKO Pictures romance drama Panama Lady is a cleaned-up remake of the 1932 pre-Code film Panama Flo. Lucille Ball takes on Helen Twelvetrees’s former role of Flo as Lucy, a […]

Jun, 11

The Spiral Road * (1962, Rock Hudson, Burl Ives, Gena Rowlands) – Classic Movie Review 9624

Director Robert Mulligan’s 1962 ambitious and well-intentioned failure The Spiral Road is based on Jan de Hartog’s novel and stars Rock Hudson as a mid-1930s stop-at-nothing doctor in trouble, bent on using Dr Brits Jansen […]

Apr, 10

Hamburger Hill **** (1987, Anthony Barrile, Michael Boatman, Don Cheadle) – Classic Movie Review 9605

British director John Irvin’s 1987 Hamburger Hill is a robust and vigorous Vietnam film that unfairly got rather lost in a year when they were in vogue. It is not as special as Full Metal […]

Apr, 06

Death in the Garden [La mort en ce jardin] **** (1956, Simone Signoret, Georges Marchal, Charles Vanel, Michel Piccoli) – Classic Movie Review 8835

This Luis Buñuel rarity is a colourful adventure thriller set in Mexico, where a motley group of French people – a bad boy adventurer [Shark], a priest [Father Lizardi], a prostitute [Djin], an old diamond […]

Aug, 16

Too Hot to Handle *** (1938, Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, Walter Connolly, Leo Carrillo, Marjorie Main) – Classic Movie Review 8,414

Clark Gable and Myrna Loy, Hollywood’s then reigning king and queen, bring their luminous presences to MGM’s 1938 romantic comedy adventure film Too Hot to Handle [Let ‘Em All Talk], a tale of a news […]

Apr, 30

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