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Lawless Range *** (1935, John Wayne, Sheila Bromley, Frank McGlynn Jr) – Classic Movie Review 7129
John Wayne returns to playing a singing cowboy again in Lawless Range after his one shot as Singin’ Sandy in Riders of Destiny (1933) and he appears to sing in this one, though in fact of course […]
Salome *** (1953, Rita Hayworth, Stewart Granger, Charles Laughton, Judith Anderson, Cedric Hardwicke, Alan Badel, Basil Sydney) – Classic Movie Review 7124
Director William Dieterle’s 1953 Salome is a spectacularly made if shakily scripted (by Harry Kleiner) movie epic of the famous Bible tale. The story of the biblical stripper (taken up by Oscar Wilde, who turned it […]
A Man Called Gannon *** (1968, Anthony Franciosa, Michael Sarrazin, Judi West) – Classic Movie Review 7031
Tony Franciosa stars as a cowpoke drifter who takes a tenderfoot kid (Michael Sarrazin) under his wing and helps a widow rancher (Judi West) in a range war, in the 1968 Western A Man Called […]
Honeysuckle Rose *** (1980, Willie Nelson, Dyan Cannon, Amy Irving, Slim Pickens) – Classic Movie Review 7019
Director Jerry Schatzberg’s 1980 fictionalised biopic of popular Country and Western singer Willie Nelson oddly uses the vintage classical music romantic soap opera drama Intermezzo (1939) as a starting point. The screenplay is based on the story by Gustaf […]
Back Street **** (1941, Charles Boyer, Margaret Sullavan, Richard Carlson) – Classic Movie Review 7,000
The 1941 romantic drama film Back Street is arguably the best and most romantic of the three Universal Pictures film versions of Fannie Hurst’s novel about a woman’s love for a married man. A guaranteed […]
Powder River ** (1953, Rory Calhoun, Cameron Mitchell, Corinne Calvet) – Classic Movie Review 6949
Director Louis King’s 1953 Western stars Cameron Mitchell as Mitch Herdin, an alcoholic doctor with a brain tumour, who helps new Wyatt Earp-like marshal Chino Bullock (Rory Calhoun), who is trying to find his prospecting […]
A Tale of Two Cities **** (1958, Dirk Bogarde, Dorothy Tutin, Cecil Parker, Stephen Murray, Christopher Lee, Athene Seyler, Rosalie Crutchley, Ernest Clark, Paul Guers) – Classic Movie Review 6937
Director Ralph Thomas’s fine, ambitious 1958 British version of A Tale of Two Cities is the sixth film version of the Charles Dickens tale of heroics and romance during the French Revolution, carefully adapted by T […]