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The Captain [Zhong guo ji zhang] *** (2019, Hanyu Zhang, Hao Ou, Jiang Du) – Movie Review

Director Andrew Lau’s excellent, well-staged 2019 Chinese blockbuster real-life disaster movie The Captain [Zhong guo ji zhang] is based on a terrifying incident in May 2018 when a Sichuan Airlines flight cockpit’s windshield cracked and […]

Oct, 17

Ceiling Zero *** (1936, James Cagney, Pat O’Brien, June Travis, Stuart Erwin, Barton MacLane) – Classic Movie Review 8965

Director Howard Hawks’s robust 1936 black and white civil aviation romantic adventure drama Ceiling Zero stars the ever bouncy James Cagney as a daredevil womanising pilot called Dizzy Davis, who pretends to have a heart […]

Oct, 06

The Other Side of Midnight **** (1977, Marie-France Pisier, John Beck, Susan Sarandon, Raf Vallone) – Classic Movie Review 8778

Director Charles Jarrott’s 1977 romantic thriller drama The Other Side of Midnight is a long, lavish, entertaining soap-opera wallow, sleekly filmed by director Jarrott about wartime flier Larry (John Beck), who loves and leaves Parisienne […]

Jul, 30

You Gotta Stay Happy ** (1948, Joan Fontaine, James Stewart, Eddie Albert, Roland Young, Willard Parker, Percy Kilbride, Porter Hall) – Classic Movie Review 8651

‘IT HAPPENS up in the Wild Blue Yonder – it gets WILDER as they get FONDER! ‘ Joan Fontaine stars as Dee Dee Dillwood, who leaves her betrothed Henry Benson (Willard Parker) – her sixth […]

Jun, 28

Tawny Pipit *** (1944, Bernard Miles, Rosamund John, Niall MacGinnis) – Classic Movie Review 8634

Bernard Miles co-writes and co-directs (with Charles Saunders) and produces and stars in the 1944 British black and white wartime comedy Tawny Pipit, a gently winsome piece of whimsy about the momentarily near-calamitous events that […]

Jun, 24

That Night in Rio **** (1941, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Carmen Miranda) – Classic Movie Review 8579

Director Irving Cummings’s deliciously bright and campy 1941 musical That Night in Rio stars the formidable trio of Don Ameche, Alice Faye and Carmen Miranda. As the tagline tells us, it is filmed in gorgeous […]

Jun, 10

Mosquito Squadron ** (1969, David McCallum, Suzanne Neve, Charles Gray) – Classic Movie Review 8509

The first outing for the RAF’s bouncing bomb, in which in 1944 the British attack a rocket base in France, is related in director Boris Sagal’s odd, very small-scale 1969 World War Two action thriller […]

May, 28

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