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The Young Don’t Cry *** (1957, Sal Mineo, James Whitmore, J Carrol Naish) – Classic Movie Review 9,859

The honest, good-hearted 1957 American troubled youth crime drama film The Young Don’t Cry stars Sal Mineo as an orphanage teenager who gets involved with a chain-gang convict (James Whitmore).  Director Alfred L Werker’s downbeat […]

Jun, 03

Little Men ** (1940, Kay Francis, Jack Oakie, George Bancroft, Jimmy Lydon) – Classic Movie Review 9205

Director Norman Z McLeod’s 1940 Little Men is a quick, well-produced remake of Phil Rosen’s 1935 film Little Men, and is marginally better, with Kay Francis starring as Jo March, the main character in Louisa […]

Dec, 30

Little Miss Broadway *** (1938, Shirley Temple, George Murphy, Jimmy Durante, Edna May Oliver, Phyllis Brooks ) – Classic Movie Review 9198

The teaming of Shirley Temple and Jimmy Durante is the main attraction and high point of director Irving Cummings’s pleasant 1938 musical Little Miss Broadway, though George Murphy and Edna May Oliver are good value […]

Dec, 29

Escape to Witch Mountain *** (1975, Eddie Albert, Ray Milland, Donald Pleasence, Kim Richards, Ike Eisenmann) – Classic Movie Review 8188

Director John Hough’s 1974 children’s film Escape to Witch Mountain is an engaging and entertaining Walt Disney Productions live action mystery-fantasy adventure, starring Eddie Albert, Ray Milland, Donald Pleasence, Kim Richards and Ike Eisenmann. It is based […]

Mar, 02

These Wilder Years ** (1956, James Cagney, Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Pidgeon) – Classic Movie Review 7798

Director Roy Rowland’s 1956 drama These Wilder Years is the only teaming of great stars James Cagney and Barbara Stanwyck, who are very welcome, of course, if alas slightly beyond their prime and not in […]

Nov, 17

The Fireball ** (1950, Mickey Rooney, Pat O’Brien, Beverly Tyler, Ralph Dumke, Milburn Stone, Marilyn Monroe) – Classic Movie Review 7599

‘Rooney Runs Riot on the Roller Raceways!’ Director Tay Garnett’s 1950 The Fireball stars Mickey Rooney as orphan Johnny Casar, who flees from Father O’Hara (Pat O’Brien)’s orphanage school, becomes a champion star on roller skates, […]

Sep, 20

Battle Hymn ***½ (1957, Rock Hudson, Anna Kashfi, Dan Duryea, Don DeFore, Martha Hyer, Jock Mahoney, Alan Hale Jr) – Classic Movie Review 6670

Director Douglas Sirk’s lavish, sentimental, flag-waving 1957 Korean War movie stars his regular actor Rock Hudson, who impresses in a heavyweight role as Colonel Dean Hess, a real-life World War Two bomber pilot and flying chaplain […]

Feb, 10

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