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- The Last Shot You Hear ** (1969, Hugh Marlowe, Zena Walker, Patricia Haines, William Dysart) – Classic Movie Review 13,475
- Catacombs [The Woman Who Wouldn’t Die] *** (1964, Gary Merrill, Jane Merrow, Neil McCallum, Georgina Cookson) – Classic Movie Review 13,474
- Plainclothes *** (2025, Tom Blyth, Russell Tovey, Amy Forsyth, Christian Cooke, Maria Dizzia) – Classic Movie Review 13,473
- The Capture *** (1950, Lew Ayres, Teresa Wright, Victor Jory) – Classic Movie Review 13,472
- The Avenging Hand ** (1936, Noah Beery Sr, Kathleen Kelly, Louis Borel) – Classic Movie Review 13,471
- Black Robe ** (1991, Lothaire Bluteau, August Schellenberg, Aden Young, Sandrine Holt) – Classic Movie Review 13,470
- Fatherland ** (1986, Gerulf Pannach, Fabienne Babe, Sigfrit Steiner) – Classic Movie Review 13,469
- Fatherland ** (1994, Rutger Hauer, Miranda Richardson, Peter Vaughan, Jean Marsh, Michael Kitchen, John Woodvine, John Shrapnel) – Classic Movie Review 13,468
- Dead Man’s Shoes **** (2004, Paddy Considine, Toby Kebbell, Gary Stretch, Stuart Wolfenden) – Classic Movie Review 13,467
- The Trip *** (2002, Larry Sullivan, Steve Braun, Ray Baker, Alexis Arquette, Sirena Irwin, Jill St John, Art Hindle) – Classic Movie Review 13,466
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Doctor Dolittle *** (1998, Eddie Murphy, Peter Boyle, Ossie Davis) – Classic Movie Review 8752
‘What if you could have a conversation? I mean, not with a baseball or a banana – that’s ridiculous – but with your dog?’ Director Betty Thomas’s 1998 family fantasy comedy remake Doctor Dolittle stars […]
Little Lord Fauntleroy ** (1980, Ricky Schroder, Alec Guinness, Eric Porter, Colin Blakely, Connie Booth, Rachel Kempson) – Classic Movie Review 8641
Director Jack Gold’s 1980 family romantic drama Little Lord Fauntleroy is well crafted and decently acted, and has its appeal, but, as a Victorian heart-tugger, it is way out of its time. It was made […]
That Night in Rio **** (1941, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Carmen Miranda) – Classic Movie Review 8579
Director Irving Cummings’s deliciously bright and campy 1941 musical That Night in Rio stars the formidable trio of Don Ameche, Alice Faye and Carmen Miranda. As the tagline tells us, it is filmed in gorgeous […]
Silk Stockings **** (1957, Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Peter Lorre, Janis Paige) – Classic Movie Review 8565
Director Rouben Mamoulian’s 1957 Silk Stockings is a smart and attractive musical remake of Greta Garbo’s 1939 comedy Ninotchka, this time with Fred Astaire at his effortless best in his last big MGM musical, and […]
Up in Arms *** (1944, Danny Kaye, Dana Andrews, Dinah Shore) – Classic Movie Review 8563
Director Elliott Nugent’s 1944 Up in Arms is a remake by The Samuel Goldwyn Company of Eddie Cantor’s 1930 hit Whoopee! this time starring Danny Kaye in his cinema feature film début (after four shorts […]
Down Argentine Way **** (1940, Don Ameche, Betty Grable, Carmen Miranda, Charlotte Greenwood, J Carrol Naish, Henry Stephenson, Nicholas Brothers) – Classic Movie Review 8561
Director Irving Cummings’s exuberant 1940 Latin American Technicolor musical Down Argentine Way is as light as air and twice as bracing. Above all, it is fun. With the world at war and audiences looking for […]
52 Pick-Up ** (1986, Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret, Vanity, John Glover, Robert Trebor, Lonny Chapman, Kelly Preston, Doug McClure) – Classic Movie Review 8523
Something is missing in director John Frankenheimer’s 1986 crime thriller film 52 Pick-Up – credibility, pace, wit and brevity for a start. The Cannon Group remake Elmore Leonard’s 1974 novel just 18 months after their […]