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- Teenage Monster * (1957, Anne Gwynne, Stuart Wade, Gloria Costello, Gilbert Perkins, Jim McCullough, Stephen Parker) – Classic Movie Review 13,214
- The Centre of My World [Die Mitte der Welt] **** (2016, Louis Hofmann, Sabine Timoteo, Jannik Schümann, Ada Philine Stappenbeck) – Classic Movie Review 13,213
- The Senator [O Senador] **½ (2024, Sergio Harger, Johnny Alcántara, Juliana Zancanaro, João Cury) – Classic Movie Review 13,212
- Rogue’s Yarn * (1957, Nicole Maurey, Derek Bond) – Classic Movie Review 13,211
- Crow Hollow ** (1952, Donald Houston, Natasha Parry, Patricia Owens) – Classic Movie Review 13,210
- Carny *** (1980, Gary Busey, Jodie Foster, Robbie Robertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,209
- Carnival Story ** (1954, Anne Baxter, Steve Cochran, Lyle Bettger, George Nader, Jay C Flippen) – Classic Movie Review 13,208
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- The Great Smokey Roadblock [The Last of the Cowboys] *** (1977, Henry Fonda, Eileen Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 13,206
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North Sea Hijack [ffolkes] *** (1980, Roger Moore, James Mason, Anthony Perkins, Michael Parks, David Hedison, Jack Watson, George Baker, Faith Brook, David Wood) – Classic Movie Review 8787
Director Andrew V McLaglen’s 1980 North Sea Hijack [ffolkes] stars Roger Moore, who leads the comic-book capers as Ffolkes, an oddball freelance frogman-commando with ice-cool nerve and style (he loves cats, ignores women and does […]
Campbell’s Kingdom ** (1957, Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Michael Craig, Barbara Murray, James Robertson Justice, Athene Seyler, Mary Merrall) – Classic Movie Review 8683
Director Ralph Thomas’s rugged attempt to make a British Western set in the Canadian Rockies – the 1957 Campbell’s Kingdom – stars Dirk Bogarde as noble Englishman Bruce Campbell, who is the claimant to a […]
The Mattei Affair ***** (1972, Gian Maria Volontè, Luigi Squarzina, Peter Baldwin) – Classic Movie Review 8606
Director Francesco Rosi’s 1972 biographical docudrama The Mattei Affair [Il Caso Mattei] stars Gian Maria Volontè, who is superb as Italian socialist oil mogul Enrico Mattei in Rosi’s masterly biopic of the World War Two […]
The French Line ** (1953, Jane Russell, Gilbert Roland, Arthur Hunnicutt) – Classic Movie Review 8229
‘See Jane Russell in 3-D – She’ll Knock BOTH Your Eyes Out!’ ran the publicity for director Lloyd Bacon’s 1955 romantic comedy The French Line, a 3D Technicolor RKO Radio Pictures musical remake of their 1934 […]
Miracle in Milan [Miracolo a Milano] **** (1951, Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa, Brunella Bovo, Guglielmo Barnabò) – Classic Movie Review 7711
Producer-director Vittorio De Sica’s warmhearted 1951 Italian classic Miracle in Milan [Miracolo a Milano] is a fairy tale about an angelic young orphan called Totò (Francesco Golisano) who arrives in a poor community outside Milan where […]
Blowing Wild ** (1953, Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Anthony Quinn, Ruth Roman, Ward Bond) – Classic Movie Review 7678
Director Hugo Fregonese’s 1953 action adventure Blowing Wild stars Barbara Stanwyck as wicked wildcat Marina Conway, who lusts again after her reluctant former lover Jeff Dawson (Gary Cooper) while her oil boss husband Paco (Anthony […]
The Formula ** (1980, George C Scott, Marlon Brando, Marthe Keller, John Gielgud) – Classic Movie Review 7212
The Formula (1980) is at best formula film-making from John G Avildsen, the director of Rocky and The Karate Kid, who objected to the MGM studio’s release cut of the picture and unsuccessfully tried to […]