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You’re Darn Tootin’ [The Music Blasters] **** (1928, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Wilson Benge) – Classic Movie Review 7399

Ollie, French horn player: ‘I wouldn’t mind training a seal or an elephant, but you’re hopeless!’ Director Edgar Kennedy’s 1928 short subject film You’re Darn Tootin’ [The Music Blasters] is one of Stan Laurel and […]

Aug, 04

Beware Spooks! *** (1939, Joe E Brown, Mary Carlisle, Clarence Kolb) – Classic Movie Review 7386

Director Edward Sedgwick’s pleasant 1939 Columbia Pictures 65-minute black and white comedy Beware Spooks! is a moderately well made, mildly amusing vehicle for Joe E Brown’s knockabout antics as jittery, bumbling cop Roy Gifford, who first […]

Aug, 02

Dudley Do-Right ** (1999, Brendan Fraser, Sarah Jessica Parker, Alfred Molina, Eric Idle, Robert Prosky, Alex Rocco, Jack Kehler) – Classic Movie Review 7254

Brendan Fraser is sweet and fun as the Royal Canadian Mountie who gets his girl, Nell Fenwick (Sarah Jessica Parker), from the clutches of the wicked villain Snidely Whiplash (Alfred Molina) in writer-director Hugh Wilson’s recklessly silly but […]

Jul, 05

The Milagro Beanfield War *** (1988, Rubén Blades, Richard Bradford, Sônia Braga) – Classic Movie Review 7222

Director Robert Redford’s impeccably filmed 1988 saga The Milagro Beanfield War hones in on a battle in the American Southwest between New Mexican farmers and the bad guys who want to develop their land for […]

Jun, 26

The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt *** (1939, Warren William, Ida Lupino, Rita Hayworth) – Classic Movie Review 6844

Warren William takes over as Michael Lanyard in the first and finest of his nine stabs at the Lone Wolf character, with a screen play by Jonathan Latimer, based on a story by Louis Joseph Vance). The Lone Wolf […]

Mar, 22

Violent Cop [Sono otoko, kyôbô ni tsuki] ***** (1989, Takeshi Kitano, Maiko Kawakami, Makoto Ashikawa, Shirô Sano) – Classic Movie Review 6527

Takeshi Kitano’s highly promising director debut shows much of the sharp and quirky style that was to come to its acme in Sonatine (1993). Kitano’s taut and exciting 1989 Japanese film has a relentless pace that suddenly […]

Jan, 06

He Who Rides a Tiger ** (1965, Tom Bell, Judi Dench, Paul Rogers) – Classic Movie Review 6450

Director Charles Crichton’s 1965 British independent film thriller stars Tom Bell as burglar Peter Rayston, who comes out of jail for the eighth time and has a little love with the easily-led social worker Joanne (Judi […]

Dec, 22

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