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- The Return of the Whistler **½ (1948, Michael Duane, Lenore Aubert, Richard Lane) – Classic Movie Review 13,259
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- In Old Kentucky *** (1935, Will Rogers, Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson, Dorothy Wilson, Russell Hardie, Louise Henry, Charles Sellon) – Classic Movie Review 13,257
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- The Secret of the Whistler *** (1946, Richard Dix, Leslie Brooks, Michael Duane, Mary Currier, Mona Barrie, Claire Du Brey) – Classic Movie Review 13,253
- Kiss the Boys Goodbye **½ (1941, Don Ameche, Mary Martin, Oscar Levant) – Classic Movie Review 13,252
- Forbidden Cargo ** (1954, Nigel Patrick, Elizabeth Sellars, Terence Morgan, Jack Warner, Greta Gynt, Joyce Grenfell, Theodore Bikel) – Classic Movie Review 13,251
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Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round *** (1966, James Coburn, Camilla Sparv, Aldo Ray, Nina Wayne, Robert Webber, Rose Marie) – Classic Movie Review 9032
Writer-director Bernard Girard’s 1966 crime drama Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round is a bright and brash tongue-in-cheek-thriller adventure starring James Coburn as Swinging Sixties ladies’ man crook Eli Kotch, a paroled conman masterminding a gang’s […]
The Mustang *** (2019, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jason Mitchell, Bruce Dern, Gideon Adlon, Connie Britton) – Movie Review
Co-writer/ director Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s appealing and moving 2019 drama The Mustang stars Matthias Schoenaerts as jailed violent convict Roman Coleman, given the chance in prison to participate in Bruce Dern’s rehabilitation therapy programme training […]
Out for a Kill * (2003, Steven Seagal, Michelle Goh, Corey Johnson, Tom Wu) – Classic Movie Review 8859
Director Michael Oblowitz’s 2003 revenge, payback action crime adventure Out for a Kill stars ageing action-man Steven Seagal in what seems like an unusual role for him as a college archaeology professor called Robert Burns, […]
The Secret of Blood Island ** (1965, Jack Hedley, Barbara Shelley, Patrick Wymark, Charles Tingwell, Bill Owen, Lee Montague) – Classic Movie Review 8713
Director Quentin Lawrence’s 1964 The Secret of Blood Island is a Hammer Films World War Two adventure movie that follows British secret agent Elaine (Barbara Shelley) on a mission to a concentration camp in enemy-occupied […]
The Camp on Blood Island * (1958, André Morell, Carl Möhner, Walter Fitzgerald, Barbara Shelley, Edward Underdown, Michael Goodliffe) – Classic Movie Review 8684
Director Val Guest’s brutal and controversial British exploitation movie for Hammer Films – the 1958 The Camp on Blood Island – shows the Brits in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in Malaya trying desperately […]
The Dogs of War ** (1980, Christopher Walken, Tom Berenger, Colin Blakely, Winston Ntshona, Hugh Millais, Paul Freeman, JoBeth Williams) – Classic Movie Review 8439
Director John Irvin’s 1980 war movie The Dogs of War is a competent but superficial and conventional all-action version of Frederick Forsyth’s bestseller, with a young-looking Christopher Walken miscast but still intriguing and watchable as […]
Cattle Empire *** (1958, Joel McCrea, Gloria Talbott, Don Haggerty, Phyllis Coates) – Classic Movie Review 8400
Joel McCrea stars in the 1958 Western movie Cattle Empire as an ex-con called John Cord, who enlists as a cattle-drive trail boss to avenge himself on the cattlemen who had got him into prison. […]