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White Men Can’t Jump * (1992, Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson, Rosie Perez) – Classic Movie Review 10,754

Woody Harrelson played the popular Woody Boyd in 200 episodes of the classic TV series Cheers (1985-1993). But beware the perils of trying to move from a hit TV show to the big screen. The […]

Jan, 05

White Woman (1933, Carole Lombard, Charles Laughton, Charles Bickford, Kent Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 10,747

Director Stuart Walker’s infamous 1933 American pre-Code black and white Paramount Pictures drama film White Woman stars Charles Laughton, Carole Lombard, Kent Taylor and Charles Bickford. Lombard plays nightclub singer Judith Denning, a young widow […]

Jan, 03

Dutchman **** (1966, Shirley Knig ht, Al Freeman Jr, Frank Lieberman) – Classic Movie Review 10,517

Neurotic white woman Lula (Shirley Knight) humiliates black New Yorker Clay (Al Freeman Jr) on a subway train, in director Anthony Harvey’s 1966 drama Dutchman, a riveting, intensely played version of LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka)’s […]

Nov, 09

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith **** (1978, Tommy Lewis, Jack Thompson, Ray Barrett, Freddy Reynolds, Angela Punch McGregor) – Classic Movie Review 9308

Director Fred Schepisi’s 1978 The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith stars Tommy Lewis as nice young Australian half-Aborigine Jimmie Blacksmith, who is brought up by bigoted minister the Reverend Neville (Jack Thompson) at the turn of […]

Jan, 27

Flame in the Streets **** (1961, John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Brenda de Banzie, Johnny Sekka, Earl Cameron, Meredith Edwards) – Classic Movie Review 9148

The 1961 British drama film Flame in the Streets stars John Mills as a large company’s union organiser who struggles when his only daughter (Sylvia Syms) announces that she plans to wed her Jamaican boyfriend […]

Dec, 12

Bread and Chocolate [Pane e Cioccolata] **** (1974, Nino Manfredi, Anna Karina, Paolo Turco) – Classic Movie Review 8604

Director Franco Brusati’s 1974 Bread and Chocolate [Pane e Cioccolata] stars Nino Manfredi as Nino Garofoli, an Italian waiter who quits his home in Sicily for a better life in Switzerland, where, alas, he is […]

Jun, 18

The Young Savages *** (1961, Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Edward Andrews, Shelley Winters) – Classic Movie Review 8519

Director John Frankenheimer’s second movie The Young Savages (following The Young Stranger in 1957) is a smartly handled, sincere courtroom drama with a lot of social conscience and a small slice of romance. Burt Lancaster […]

May, 30

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