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The Last of the Mohicans **** (1920, Wallace Beery, Barbara Bedford, Lillian Hall, Harry Lorraine, Theodore Lorch, Alan Roscoe, James Gordon) – Classic Movie Review 4665

Wallace Beery makes a sterling hero as the Indian runner Magua in this famous 1920 silent movie. Directors Maurice Tourneur and Clarence Brown’s exciting, well-made adventure yarn is based on James Fenimore Cooper’s classic tale of the […]

Nov, 19

The Jewel of the Nile ** (1985, Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito) – Classic Movie Review 4564

Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito re-assemble for director Lewis Teague’s entertaining but less sparkling 1985 adventure sequel to Romancing the Stone. Turner again plays Joan Wilder, the dizzy lady novelist back in trouble […]

Oct, 29

The Gamma People ** (1956, Paul Douglas, Eva Bartok, Leslie Phillips, Walter Rilla) – Classic Movie Review 4415

John Gilling’s interesting and elaborate 1956 British sci-fi movie The Gamma People stars Walter Rilla as crazy scientist Boronski, who is attempting to create a stream of brilliant children by blasting them with gamma rays. […]

Sep, 26

Two Rode Together ***½ (1961, James Stewart, Richard Widmark, Shirley Jones, Linda Cristal, Andy Devine, John McIntire, Paul Birch) – Classic Movie Review 4235

This hard-nosed, well-acted 1961 John Ford film recalls his 1956 classic The Searchers and is very solid fare for Western fans. James Stewart and Richard Widmark have some wonderfully laconic exchanges of dialogue as easy-going […]

Aug, 25

The Eagle Has Landed *** (1976, Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, Jenny Agutter, Donald Pleasence, Anthony Quayle, Jean Marsh) – Classic Movie Review 4116

In his final film, director John Sturges’s manly 1976 good, old-fashioned, big-budget wartime adventure thriller movie is based on Jack Higgins’s best-selling novel, set in 1943. It has an eccentric, often miscast all-star roster of players, including […]

Aug, 01

The Rookie ** (1990, Clint Eastwood, Charlie Sheen, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga, Tom Skerritt, Lara Flynn Boyle, Pepe Serna, Mara Corday) – Classic Movie Review 4113

Director Clint Eastwood’s violent, nasty 1990 police thriller stars Eastwood yet again as Nick Pulovski, a maverick short-tempered veteran LA cop (absolutely not Dirty Harry!) determined to find the man who murdered his former partner. He […]

Aug, 01

Twisted Nerve ** (1968, Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Billie Whitelaw, Phyllis Calvert, Frank Finlay, Barry Foster, Christian Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 4031

The Boulting brothers make a risky dabble in the prejudices of popular psychiatry for director Roy Boulting’s crudely done though interesting 1968 British chiller, reuniting young stars Hywel Bennett and Hayley Mills from their hit […]

Jul, 16

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