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Posts Tagged "pirate"
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The Pirate **** (1948, Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Walter Slezak) – Classic Movie Review 2510
Director Vincente Minnelli’s sophisticated and colourful 1948 Technicolor musical is lots of fun and a real charmer. It’s a sparkling showcase for the splendid team of Gene Kelly and Judy Garland, in the second of […]
Carry On Jack *** (1964, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Bernard Cribbins, Jim Dale, Juliet Mills, Cecil Parker, Donald Houston) – Classic Movie Review 2,377
Gerald Thomas’s eighth 1964 Carry On film comedy Carry On Jack comes from the series’s vintage era but manages to assemble only three of the regular team. Director Gerald Thomas’s eighth 1964 Carry On film […]
The Three Musketeers ** (1993, Chris O’Donnell, Tim Curry, Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Oliver Platt, Rebecca De Mornay, Hugh O’Conor) – Classic Movie Review 2309
Director Stephen Herek’s 1993 Austrian-American action-adventure film The Three Musketeers from Walt Disney Pictures and Caravan Pictures is a proficient but moderate version of the Alexandre Dumas classic, with a brisk but modest screenplay by David Loughery. The […]
Treasure Island **** (1950, Bobby Driscoll, Robert Newton, Finlay Currie, Basil Sydney) – Classic Movie Review 2058
Ah, ha, Jim lad! The inimitable, or very imitable, Robert Newton is an absolute knockout in the 1950 adventure film Treasure Island as the best-ever eccentric pirate captain Long John Silver. Go on, Talk Like […]
The Princess Bride **** (1987, Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Chris Sarandon, Mandy Patinkin, Peter Falk, Fred Savage, Wallace Shawn, Billy Crystal) – Classic Movie Review 1537
Director Rob Reiner’s 1987 fairy tale movie is a perennial pleasure. The story is narrated by Peter Falk’s kindly grandfather, who reads his sick grandson (Fred Savage) a classic fairy tale, with heroes and villains, a poor stable boy, a […]
Cutthroat Island **** (1995, Geena Davis, Matthew Modine, Frank Langella) – Classic Movie Review 912
The $100 million pirate movie box-office flop 1995 film Cutthroat Island that sank the Carolco studio is not remotely anything like as bad as its infamy suggests. Geena Davis is extremely sprightly and appealing as […]
Tinker Bell and the Pirate Fairy ** (2014, voices of Mae Whitman, Christina Hendricks, Tom Hiddleston) – Movie Review
Christina Hendricks provides the voice of naughty, misunderstood dust-keeper fairy Zarina, who steals Pixie Hollow’s vital Blue Pixie Dust and flies away to join forces with Captain James Hook (Tom Hiddleston) and the pirates of Skull […]