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River Beat *** (1954, Phillis Kirk, John Bentley, Robert Ayres) – Classic Movie Review 12,960

Guy Green’s commendable 1954 British second feature noir crime film River Beat stars American actress Phillis Kirk and popular British B-movie heart-throb John Bentley. ‘Waterfront Thrills! Director Guy Green’s commendable 1954 British second feature noir […]

Jun, 21

Quatre nuits d’un rêveur [Four Nights of a Dreamer] **** (1971, Isabelle Weingarten, Guillaume des Forêts, Jean-Maurice Monnoyer) – Classic Movie Review 10,917

Marthe: ‘What’s the matter?’ Jacques: ‘I love you. That’s the matter.’ Writer-director Robert Bresson’s beautiful, miniaturist 1971 French Eastmancolor drama film Quatre nuits d’un rêveur [Four Nights of a Dreamer] is loosely based on the […]

Feb, 15

Fools’ Parade [Dynamite Man from Glory Jail] **½ (1971, James Stewart, George Kennedy, Strother Martin, Anne Baxter, Kurt Russell) – Classic Movie Review 10,901

Fools’ Parade (1971) has a good cast in James Stewart, George Kennedy, Kurt Russell, Strother Martin and Anne Baxter, but it is an uninspiring title for a Western. They changed it in the UK to […]

Feb, 10

The Iron Mistress ** (1952, Alan Ladd, Virginia Mayo, Joseph Calleia) – Classic Movie Review 10,123

Director Gordon Douglas’s 1952 film The Iron Mistress stars Alan Ladd, who is neatly cast as Jim Bowie, the frontiersman inventor of the twin-edged knife, in this routine, fictionalised fact-based Western biopic. There is romance […]

Aug, 02

Tarzan and the Great River ** (1967, Mike Henry, Jan Murray, Manuel Padilla Jr) – Classic Movie Review 8076

Tarzan and the Great River (1967) is directed briskly and very competently by Robert Day. It is the penultimate of the five Tarzan movies he made in the Sixties. The great river is the Amazon […]

Jan, 30

The Rawhide Years **½ (1955, Tony Curtis, Colleen Miller, Arthur Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 4868

Director Rudolph Maté’s 1955 movie The Rawhide Years retells one of the usual, standard, regulation B-movie Western plots – a dishonest riverboat gambler sets out to clear his name of the murder of the town’s […]

Jan, 09

Death on the Nile **** (1978, Peter Ustinov, Angela Lansbury, Bette Davis, Maggie Smith, David Niven, Jon Finch, Jack Warden, George Kennedy, Simon MacCorkindale, Harry Andrews, Jane Birkin, Mia Farrow, Olivia Hussey) – Classic Movie Review 1299

Peter Ustinov’s Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of a selfish heiress (Lois Chiles) on a Nile steamer, where all are suspects, in the 1978 film Death on the Nile. Angela Lansbury, Bette Davis, Maggie Smith […]

Jun, 07

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