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Love Story [A Lady Surrenders] **** (1944, Margaret Lockwood, Stewart Granger, Patricia Roc) – Classic Movie Review 6968

Co-writer/ director Leslie Arliss 1944 black and white British wartime romantic melodrama is something just as engagingly soppy as the famous 1970 Ryan O’Neal-Ali MacGraw Love Story. This one is made by Gainsborough Pictures and stars Margaret […]

Apr, 27

Paradise, Hawaiian Style * (1966, Elvis Presley, Suzanna Leigh, James Shigeta, Irene Tsu, Donna Butterworth, Marianna Hill) – Classic Movie Review 6854

Elvis Presley stars as Rick Richards, a civil helicopter pilot who plans to start a charter flying service in Hawaii and plays the field romantically, and Suzanna Leigh co-stars forlornly as his main love interest, […]

Mar, 25

High Barbaree ** (1947, Van Johnson, June Allyson, Thomas Mitchell, Marilyn Maxwell, Cameron Mitchell, Claude Jarman Jr, Henry Hull) – Classic Movie Review 6806

Although director Jack Conway’s 1947 MGM adventure is based on the story by the Mutiny on the Bounty authors Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, it is a drab desert island fantasy. Van Johnson stars […]

Mar, 15

Slattery’s Hurricane *** (1949, Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Veronica Lake, John Russell, Gary Merrill) – Classic Movie Review 6692

Richard Widmark scores strongly as Lieutenant Will Slattery USNR, the shifty, selfish and seedy-seeming anti-hero of director André De Toth’s 1949 Florida drug-smuggling adventure movie Slattery’s Hurricane. Studio 20th Century Fox had wanted Tyrone Power, but he’d […]

Feb, 15

The War Lover * (1962, Steve McQueen, Shirley Anne Field, Robert Wagner) – Classic Movie Review 6460

‘Some men love war the way others love women. This is the story of both kinds!’ Director Philip Leacock’s 1962 British black and white wartime adventure film and aviation epic The War Lover is charismatically […]

Dec, 23

Hart’s War *** (2002, Bruce Willis, Colin Farrell, Terrence Howard) – Classic Movie Review 6362

Colin Farrell plays Lieutenant Thomas Hart, an American law-student-turned GI fighting in World War Two, who is captured by enemy soldiers. He is taken to a German PoW camp, where Bruce Willis plays the ranking […]

Dec, 06

The Purple Plain *** (1954, Gregory Peck, Bernard Lee, Win Min Than, Maurice Denham, Lyndon Brook) – Classic Movie Review 6349

Director Robert Parrish’s fine, distinguished 1954 British wartime adventure drama stars Gregory Peck as Squadron Leader Bill Forrester, a Canadian bomber pilot who is reckless after losing his bride in a Luftwaffe air raid. He […]

Dec, 03

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