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The Black Cauldron *** (1985, voices of Grant Bardsley, Freddie Jones, Susan Sheridan) – Classic Movie Review 3710

Directors Ted Berman and Richard Rich’s intriguing and underrated 1985 Walt Disney sword and sorcery animated feature tells the story of the young farm lad Taran in the land of Prydain in the Middle Ages […]

May, 15

The Mummy’s Curse ** (1944, Lon Chaney Jr, Peter Coe, Virginia Christine, Addison Richards, Kay Harding) – Classic Movie Review 3302

Director Leslie Goodwins serves up yet more Mummy mayhem, this time set in the swamps of Louisiana, in his acceptable 1944 Universal horror movie sequel, the fifth and last proper movie in the original Mummy saga […]

Jan, 29

The Mummy’s Ghost **½ (1944, Lon Chaney Jr, John Carradine, Robert Lowery, George Zucco, Ramsay Ames) – Classic Movie Review 3301

Lon Chaney Jnr reprises his role as Kharis the Mummy in this slightly tired but still entertaining sequel to The Mummy’s Tomb (1942), to which it is virtually identical, bar some of the elements of […]

Jan, 29

The Mummy’s Tomb **½ (1942, Lon Chaney Jr, Turhan Bey, George Zucco, Dick Foran, Wallace Ford, John Hubbard) – Classic Movie Review 3299

Lon Chaney Jnr takes over from Tom Tyler as Kharis the Mummy in director Harold Young’s slightly less good 1942 sequel to The Mummy’s Hand (1940). This time the living Mummy is sent to America […]

Jan, 29

The Young Victoria **** (2009, Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany, Jim Broadbent, Julian Glover, Miranda Richardson, Mark Strong, Harriet Walter) – Classic Movie Review 3295

Emily Blunt and Rupert Friend are perfect as the young Queen Victoria and her prince consort Albert in this silver-spoon, velvet-plush, beautifully staged version of the little known story of the iron lady’s struggle for […]

Jan, 27

The Mummy’s Hand *** (1940, Dick Foran, Wallace Ford, George Zucco, Cecil Kellaway, Peggy Moran, Tom Tyler, Eduardo Ciannelli) – Classic Movie Review 2816

‘The tomb of a thousand terrors!’ Director Christy Cabanne’s lusty 1940 American black-and-white horror sequel The Mummy’s Hand is only 67 minutes long but re-uses more than 10 minutes of footage from Universal Pictures’ The […]

Aug, 15

Call Me Madam **** (1953, Ethel Merman, George Sanders, Donald O’Connor, Vera-Ellen, Billy De Wolfe, Walter Slezak) – Classic Movie Review 2614

The boisterous Ethel Merman is on top form as the hostess with the mostest  – and so are the whole cast – for Walter Lang’s very bright, lively and nimble 1953 film version of the ultimate […]

Jun, 18

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