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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
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West of Zanzibar *** (1928, Lon Chaney Sr, Lionel Barrymore, Jacqueline Gadsdon, Mary Nolan, Warner Baxter) – Classic Movie Review 12,379
Director Tod Browning’s 1928 American silent romantic adventure film West of Zanzibar stars Lon Chaney Sr as a vengeful stage magician who is paralysed in a brawl with a rival (Lionel Barrymore). Jacqueline Gadsdon, Mary […]
Assassins ** (1995, Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Banderas, Julianne Moore) – Classic Movie Review 8166
Director Richard Donner’s 1995 action thriller Assassins stars Sylvester Stallone, who offers a monolithic, by-the-numbers performance as a jaded contract killer hitman called Robert Rath who plans to retire after one last job. But soon […]
Death Becomes Her *** (1992, Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, Bruce Willis, Isabella Rossellini, Ian Ogilvy) – Classic Movie Review 7995
The 1992 Death Becomes Her is an intriguing attempt at a black-comedy fantasy farce by Robert Zemeckis, the biggest money-spinning director of all time, who gives Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn and Bruce Willis the opportunity […]
Red Ensign [Strike!] *** (1934, Leslie Banks, Carol Goodner, Frank Vosper, Alfred Drayton) – Classic Movie Review 7956
Esteemed British film-maker Michael Powell’s 1934 Red Ensign [US title: Strike!] is an intriguing early low-budget (£12,000) quota quickie from him. Even so, it was Powell’s 12th film in four years, and, humble though it is, it is […]
Purple Rain *** (1984, Prince, Apollonia Kotero, Morris Day) – Classic Movie Review 3598
Co-writer/director Albert Magnoli’s 1984 Oscar-winning musical movie stars Prince, then 24 and making his first film. Prince won an Oscar, a Brit award for Best Soundtrack and a Grammy for Best Album of Instrumental Score Written for a […]
Parrish *** (1961, Troy Donahue, Claudette Colbert, Karl Malden, Dean Jagger, Connie Stevens) – Classic Movie Review 3383
Writer-producer-director Delmer Daves, star Troy Donahue, composer Max Steiner and cinematographer Harry Stradling Sr all reunite after their 1959 success with A Summer Place for this new overwrought 1961 romantic drama, Parrish. The likeable and […]
Zoolander 2 ** (2016, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Penélope Cruz, Will Ferrell, Kristen Wiig) – Movie Review
Yes it’s good to see Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson back on screen as Derek Zoolander and Hansel in the long-awaited sequel to the hilarious Zoolander (2001). It’s been 15 years since the original Zoolander and fashions change […]