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- The Secret of the Whistler *** (1946, Richard Dix, Leslie Brooks, Michael Duane, Mary Currier, Mona Barrie, Claire Du Brey) – Classic Movie Review 13,253
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Tribes [The Soldier Who Declared Peace] **** (1970, Jan-Michael Vincent, Darren McGavin, Earl Holliman) – Classic Movie Review 6733
Director Joseph Sargent’s 1970 American TV movie Tribes was thought good enough to show in British cinemas, with its powerful tale of a grizzled US Marine Corps drill instructor, Gunnery Sergeant Tom Drake (Darren McGavin), taking on […]
Saturday Island [Island of Desire] *** (1952, Linda Darnell, Tab Hunter, Donald Gray, John Laurie, Lloyd Lamble, Peter Butterworth) – Classic Movie Review 5,907
Tab Hunter recalled how well he got on with Linda Darnell on the 1952 film Saturday Island [Island of Desire]: ‘She was sweet, patient and helpful, befriending an inexperienced kid. She even threw a surprise […]
Beachhead **** (1954, Tony Curtis, Frank Lovejoy, Mary Murphy, Eduard Franz) – Classic Movie Review 5491
Director Stuart Heisler’s gritty, extremely decent little 1954 wartime action thriller unusually has a speaking cast of only seven, with just one woman – Tony Curtis, Frank Lovejoy, Mary Murphy, Eduard Franz, Skip Homeier, John […]
The Great Santini ***½ (1979, Robert Duvall, Blythe Danner, Michael O’Keefe, Lisa Jane Persky) – Classic Movie Review 5398
The Great Santini has got one of those corny taglines that might actually put people off watching a movie: ‘The bravest thing he would ever do was let his family love him.’ When the tagline […]
Attack of the Puppet People ** (1958, John Agar, John Hoyt, June Kenney) – Classic Movie Review 4346
John Hoyt stars in story-writer/ director Bert I Gordon’s 1958 American International Pictures Sci-Fi movie with the familiar old tale about a mad, lonely scientist dollmaker called Mr Franz (Hoyt) who indulges himself with the terrible […]
Heartbreak Ridge **** (1986, Clint Eastwood, Marsha Mason, Mario Van Peebles, Everett McGill) – Classic Movie Review 3289
Clint Eastwood directs and stars in this stalwart, gung-ho 1986 action drama about the US Marines’ 1983 invasion of Grenada, written by Vietnam veteran James Carabatsos. His tough, bantering, foul-mouthed screenplay rings the changes on […]
Red Dawn ** (2012, Chris Hemsworth, Josh Peck, Josh Hutcherson, Robert Kitner, Adrianne Palicki, Isabel Lucas, Jeffrey Dean Morgan) – Movie Review
The then Observer film critic Philip French told me recently that he was the only journalist to praise the 1984 Red Dawn (well, that’s not quite true, but you see what he means). Praising it […]