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War Party **** (1988, Billy Wirth, Kevin Dillon, Tim Sampson) – Classic Movie Review 6482

Director Franc Roddam’s worthy 1989 movie for Hemdale is a modern-day cowboys and Indians saga that starts with the death of a white man during a 100-year anniversary re-enactment of a Blackfeet Indian massacre by the […]

Dec, 28

Kings of the Sun ** (1963, Yul Brynner, George Chakiris, Shirley Anne Field) – Classic Movie Review 6472

Unfortunately, Elliott Arnold and James R Webb’s screenplay stretches credibility to the hilt and beyond in director J Lee Thompson’s elaborate 1963 historical drama about the ancient Mayan civilisation, in which Yul Brynner strikes beefcake poses […]

Dec, 26

Wind River **** (2017, Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olson, Gil Birmingham, Graham Greene) – Movie Review

Ironically, though it was a sweaty evening at the cinema with the aircon not working, this 2017 crime drama, mystery movie is ultra-chilly in every way. Shot in snowy landscapes, it is very cold, bleak, intense and […]

Sep, 09

Geronimo * (1939, Preston Foster, Ellen Drew, Andy Devine, Chief Thundercloud, Gene Lockhart, Ralph Morgan, William Henry) – Classic Movie Review 5582

Chief Thundercloud plays Geronimo in writer-director Paul H Sloane’s tepid 1939 Paramount Western about three good guys tracking the bad guy Gillespie (Gene Lockhart) who is selling guns to the Native Americans. And, of course, Apache […]

Jun, 11

The Tall Men *** (1955, Clark Gable, Jane Russell, Robert Ryan, Cameron Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 5496

Director Raoul Walsh’s gutsy 1955 Western The Tall Men boasts excellent star power with the on-form cast of Clark Gable, Jane Russell, Robert Ryan and Cameron Mitchell, as well as liberal doses of action, romance […]

May, 25

The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake *** (1959, Henry Daniell, Eduard Franz, Valerie French, Grant Richards, Paul Cavanagh) – Classic Movie Review 5300

Director Edward L Cahn’s 1959 horror movie is a high-gear low-budget black-and-white horror film chiller, with on-form players Henry Daniell, Eduard Franz, Valerie French, Grant Richards, and Paul Cavanagh starring in an amusingly absurd tale […]

Apr, 16

The Paleface **** (1922, Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 5115

This blissful classic 1922 twenty minutes of comedy is a highly amusing, fast-moving, inventive silent short from writer/ co-producer/ co-director/ star Buster Keaton. It is one of his best – in which he plays a […]

Mar, 06

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