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Posts Tagged "remake"
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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 […]
Run for the Sun *** (1956, Richard Widmark, Trevor Howard, Jane Greer, Peter van Eyck, Juan García) – Classic Movie Review 3521
Co-writer/director Roy Boulting’s 1956 adventure thriller Run for the Sun is the third version of Richard Connell’s prize-winning short story The Most Dangerous Game. Though it is one of the most anthologised stories of all time […]
Good News *** (1947, June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Patricia Marshall, Joan McCracken, Mel Tormé) – Classic Movie Review 7872
MGM promoted Charles Walters from choreographer to first-time director for the colourful, fast-paced 1947 romantic musical comedy Good News, a Technicolor remake of their 1930 movie of the Buddy G DeSylva, Lew Brown and Ray […]
Back from Eternity *** (1956, Robert Ryan, Anita Ekberg, Rod Steiger) – Classic Movie Review 7846
The 1956 black and white adventure thriller Back from Eternity tells a familiar tale but is actually a bigger budget remake by producer-director John Farrow of his admired 1939 hit Five Came Back, which starred […]
City Streets **** (1931, Sylvia Sidney, Gary Cooper, Paul Lukas, Guy Kibbee, William Boyd, Wynne Gibson) – Classic Movie Review 7808
‘When you talk to me, take that toothpick out of your mouth’ – The Kid. The young Gary Cooper stars as The Kid, a fair worker shooting gallery showman, who falls for a gangster’s daughter Nan […]
Rear Window *** (1998, Christopher Reeve, Daryl Hannah, Robert Forster) – Classic Movie Review 7786
In his first film since he was paralysed in real life in a horse-riding fall, poor Christopher Reeve does sterling work as Jason Kemp, the quadriplegic wheelchair-bound accident victim who alleviates his boredom by spying […]
Kismet *** (1944, Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, James Craig, Edward Arnold, Hugh Herbert, Joy Ann Page, Florence Bates, Harry Davenport) – Classic Movie Review 7749
The MGM studio’s wonderfully plush and luscious remake of the Edward Knoblock stage yarn is World War Two wartime escapism gone mad, with notable casting in Ronald Colman as the beggar king Hafiz and Jamilla […]