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- The Return of the Whistler **½ (1948, Michael Duane, Lenore Aubert, Richard Lane) – Classic Movie Review 13,259
- Steamboat Round the Bend **** (1935, Will Rogers, Anne Shirley, Eugene Pallette) – Classic Movie Review 13,258
- In Old Kentucky *** (1935, Will Rogers, Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson, Dorothy Wilson, Russell Hardie, Louise Henry, Charles Sellon) – Classic Movie Review 13,257
- The Thirteenth Hour *** (1947, Richard Dix, Karen Morley, John Kellogg, Jim Bannon, Regis Toomey) – Classic Movie Review 13,256
- Guns of Darkness ** (1962, David Niven, Leslie Caron, James Robertson Justice, David Opatoshu) – Classic Movie Review 13,255
- Walk on Water **** (2004, Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters) – Classic Movie Review 13,254
- The Secret of the Whistler *** (1946, Richard Dix, Leslie Brooks, Michael Duane, Mary Currier, Mona Barrie, Claire Du Brey) – Classic Movie Review 13,253
- Kiss the Boys Goodbye **½ (1941, Don Ameche, Mary Martin, Oscar Levant) – Classic Movie Review 13,252
- Forbidden Cargo ** (1954, Nigel Patrick, Elizabeth Sellars, Terence Morgan, Jack Warner, Greta Gynt, Joyce Grenfell, Theodore Bikel) – Classic Movie Review 13,251
- Voice of the Whistler **½ (1945, Richard Dix, Lynn Merrick, Rhys Williams, James Cardwell) – Classic Movie Review 13,250
Posts Tagged "remake"
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Double Indemnity ** (1973, Richard Crenna, Lee J Cobb, Samantha Eggar, Robert Webber) – Classic Movie Review 10,181
Director Jack Smight’s 1973 film of Double Indemnity has plenty of talent involved, but is a bloodless TV remake of the 1944 classic Double Indemnity, based on the James M Cain novella in his book […]
The Beachcomber ** (1954, Glynis Johns, Robert Newton, Donald Sinden, Paul Rogers) – Classic Movie Review 10,168
Director Muriel Box’s 1954 British Technicolor drama The Beachcomber stars a well-cast Robert Newton, who catches the eye and ear as ‘Honorable Ted’ Wilson, an East Indies island drunk (Newton was himself a famous alcoholic), […]
The Sun Shines Bright **** (1953, Charles Winninger, Arleen Whelan, John Russell) – Classic Movie Review 10,127
John Ford’s reworking of his own 1934 film Judge Priest features a superb performance from chubby, lovable old Charles Winninger (replacing the original’s Will Rogers) as the small town magistrate Judge William Priest, who has […]
Aces High ** (1976, Malcolm McDowell, Christopher Plummer, Simon Ward, Peter Firth, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, Richard Johnson, Ray Milland, David Wood) – Classic Movie Review 10,065
Director Jack Gold’s worthy 1976 reworked film version of the old R C Sherriff play (and 1930 film) Journey’s End is now titled Aces High and transferred to the British air war against the Germans. […]
Stranger in the House ** (1967, James Mason, Geraldine Chaplin, Bobby Darin) – Classic Movie Review 10,056
Writer-director Pierre Rouve’s 1967 neo noir crime drama Stranger in the House is adapted from the novel by Georges Simenon, is produced by Anatole de Grunwald, and stars James Mason as washed-up alcoholic lawyer John […]
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Huckleberry Finn] *** (1960, Tony Randall, Eddie Hodges, Archie Moore) – Classic Movie Review 10,009
MGM toast the 75th anniversary of the American publication of Mark Twain’s 1884 classic book with Michael Curtiz’s nimble 1960 film version The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, was first published […]
Temptation *** (1946, Merle Oberon, George Brent, Charles Korvin, Paul Lukas) Classic Movie Review 9918
Director Irving Pichel’s 1946 black and white film noir thriller Temptation stars Merle Oberon as bored housewife Ruby, an 1890s London shady lady who moves to Egypt and swaps her dull archaeologist husband Nigel Armine […]