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Posts Tagged "remake"
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The Gun Runners *** (1958, Audie Murphy, Eddie Albert, Patricia Owens) – Classic Movie Review 8259
Don Siegel directs Audie Murphy in the 1958 black and white film noir crime drama The Gun Runners, the fourth version of Ernest Hemingway’s short story novel To Have and Have Not, following To Have […]
Cool Breeze ** (1972, Thalmus Rasulala, Judy Pace, Julian Christopher) – Classic Movie Review 8203
Writer-director Barry Pollack’s 1972 Cool Breeze is an interesting if ordinary blaxploitation thriller movie reworking (for the third time) of the 1950 classic The Asphalt Jungle, with a predominately black cast headed by Jim Watkins […]
Cairo ** (1963, George Sanders, Richard Johnson, Faten Hamamah, John Meillon, Eric Pohlmann) – Classic Movie Review 8,203
The 1963 black and white Egypt jewel treasures heist caper thriller film Cairo is one of MGM’s three attempted remakes of the 1950 classic The Asphalt Jungle, with the supposedly ‘perfect’ robbery this time effectively […]
That Kind of Woman *** (1959, Sophia Loren, Tab Hunter, Jack Warden, George Sanders, Barbara Nichols, Keenan Wynn) – Classic Movie Review 8132
Director Sidney Lumet’s 1959 drama That Kind of Woman is the soapy melodramatic romantic tale of a society woman, Kay (Sophia Loren), giving up the high life with her wealthy industrialist fancy man A L […]
Tarzan, the Ape Man * (1959, Denny Miller, Cesare Danova, Joanna Barnes, Robert Douglas) – Classic Movie Review 8085
This 1959 MGM quickie effort Tarzan, the Ape Man is an outlandish example of low-budget ingenuity featuring the 6′ 4″ university basketball star Denny Miller, who later appeared as a regular on TV’s Wagon Train series […]
Nell Gwyn *** (1934, Anna Neagle, Cedric Hardwicke, Jeanne De Casalis) – Classic Movie Review 8034
Director Herbert Wilcox’s 1934 rollicking 1660s-set costume romp Nell Gwyn stars Anna Neagle as brazen common English orange-vendor and actress Nell Gynn, who competes with the snooty aristocratic French Duchess of Portsmouth (Jeanne De Casalis) for the […]
Uptight *** (1968, Raymond St Jacques, Ruby Dee, Julian Mayfield, Frank Silvera, Roscoe Lee Brown, Janet MacLachlan, Max Julien, Juanita Moore) – Classic Movie Review 7991
Producer/director Jules Dassin boldly remakes John Ford’s 1935 classic The Informer in 1968 as Uptight, with an African American cast headed by Raymond St Jacques, Ruby Dee, Julian Mayfield, Frank Silvera, Roscoe Lee Brown, Janet […]