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Reach for the Sky **** (1956, Kenneth More, Muriel Pavlow, Lyndon Brook) – Classic Movie Review 5016

Writer-director Lewis Gilbert’s inspirational 1955 British drama Reach for the Sky stars Kenneth More, who enjoyed his biggest success when Richard Burton turned down the role of ace British pilot Douglas Bader. Bader painfully learns […]

Feb, 08

Overland Stage Raiders **½ (1938, John Wayne, Louise Brooks, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune) – Classic Movie Review 4672

The legendary silent film icon Louise Brooks plays Beth Hoyt in her last film that teams her with the young John Wayne, as his familiar nice-guy cowboy character Stony Brooke, in director George Sherman’s routine, […]

Nov, 20

Sully: Miracle on the Hudson **** (2016, Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney) – Movie Review

Director Clint Eastwood’s 2106 real-life rescue drama Sully is just great, a warm, emotional story, extremely well told. No one could have played Sully but Tom Hanks, who is perfect in the part. It is an ideal […]

Nov, 11

Always *** (1989, Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, John Goodman, Brad Johnson, Audrey Hepburn) – Classic Movie Review 4258

Steven Spielberg and Richard Dreyfuss loved director Victor Fleming’s 1944 MGM sentimental wartime Spencer Tracy fantasy film A Guy Named Joe so much that they remade it as Always. Spielberg’s pleasant remake is another sentimental […]

Aug, 28

A Guy Named Joe **** (1944, Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson, Lionel Barrymore, Ward Bond, Esther Williams, James Gleason) – Classic Movie Review 4257

Director Victor Fleming’s 1944 MGM sentimental wartime fantasy is much beloved of Steven Spielberg and Richard Dreyfuss, who remade it in 1989 as Always. Spencer Tracy stars as Major Pete Sandidge, a fighter pilot who […]

Aug, 28

To Each His Own **** (1946, Olivia de Havilland, John Lund, Roland Culver, Mary Anderson, Philip Terry, Bill Goodwin) – Classic Movie Review 4179

Director Mitchell Leisen’s 1946 drama stars Olivia de Havilland in one of her best performances, winning her first Best Actress Oscar as an unmarried mother who regrets giving away her son (John Lund in his […]

Aug, 15

Firefox * (1982, Clint Eastwood, Freddie Jones, David Huffman, Warren Clarke, Ronald Lacey, Kenneth Colley, Nigel Hawthorne, Clive Merison) – Classic Movie Review 4110

Director Clint Eastwood’s ham-fisted 1982 action adventure thriller is a rare misfire for Eastwood, who also stars as Mitchell Gant, a crinkly US aviator who comes out of retirement and goes undercover to the Soviet Union […]

Jul, 31

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