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The Magic Sword *** (1962, Basil Rathbone, Estelle Winwood, Gary Lockwood, Anne Helm) – Classic Movie Review 12,445

Producer/ director Bert I Gordon’s enjoyable enough 1962 American adventure fantasy film The Magic Sword is loosely based on the medieval legend of Saint George and the Dragon, and stars Basil Rathbone, Estelle Winwood, Gary […]

Mar, 09

Monsieur Beaucaire *** (1946, Bob Hope, Joan Caulfield, Patric Knowles) – Classic Movie Review 11,154

Paramount Pictures’ entertaining 1946 black and white comedy adventure Monsieur Beaucaire stars Bob Hope as the title French court barber involved in politics at the time of King Louis XV.  Director George Marshall’s 1946 Paramount […]

May, 01

What the Butler Saw ** (1950, Edward Rigby, Henry Mollison, Mercy Haystead) – Classic Movie Review 11,040

‘Get an eyeful of this!’ Director Godfrey Grayson’s hour-long farcical 1950 black and white British comedy What the Butler Saw is made by Hammer Films and stars Edward Rigby, Henry Mollison and Mercy Haystead in […]

Mar, 24

Princess O’Rourke ** (1943, Olivia de Havilland, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Jack Carson, Jane Wyman, Gladys Cooper, Harry Davenport) – Classic Movie Review 10,111

Writer-director Norman Krasna’s 1943 black and white Warner Bros movie Princess O’Rourke is a hair-brained, wholly artificial comedy romance, set in New York, with Olivia de Havilland starring as an unhappy princess called Maria, who […]

Jul, 30

So’s Your Old Man **** (1926, W C Fields, Alice Joyce, Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers) – Classic Movie Review 9779

Director Gregory La Cava 1926 comedy So’s Your Old Man is one of W C Fields’s best silent comedies, in which he plays Mr Samuel Bisbee, a tippling glazier and henpecked husband, who takes his […]

May, 16

The Chinese Ring * (1947, Roland Winters, Warren Douglas, Victor Sen Yung, Mantan Moreland) – Classic Movie Review 9059

Director William Beaudine’s 1947 murder mystery thriller The Chinese Ring stars Roland Winters in his first outing as Charlie Chan. The Chinese Ring is an extremely moderate, low-budget and low excitement Monogram Pictures B-feature, in which […]

Nov, 08

The Brigand ** (1952, Anthony Dexter, Anthony Quinn, Gale Robbins, Jody Lawrence) – Classic Movie Review 7864

Director Phil Karlson’s 1952 Columbia Pictures romantic adventure The Brigand is a cheap and fairly cheerful reworking of Alexandre Dumas’s story Brigand: A Romance of the Reign of Don Carlos, with Anthony Dexter in both […]

Dec, 01

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