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The Bulldog Breed ** (1960, Norman Wisdom, Edward Chapman, Ian Hunter, David Lodge, Robert Urquhart, Eddie Byrne, Peter Jones, Liz Fraser, John le Mesurier) – Classic Movie Review 13,231

The Rank Organisation’s 1960 British black and white farcical comedy The Bulldog Breed stars Norman Wisdom as grocer’s assistant turned gallant British naval hero Norman Puckle. Director Robert Asher’s 1960 British black and white farcical […]

Nov, 10

October Sky **** (1999, Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Laura Dern, Chris Owen) – Classic Movie Review 12,745

Jake Gyllenhaal stars in Joe Johnston’s 1999 biopic October Sky as American boy Homer Hickam, who sees the launch of a Sputnik in 1957 and wants to build his own rocket, but his gloomy coal-mining […]

Dec, 04

Jules Verne’s Rocket to the Moon * (1967, Burl Ives, Troy Donahue, Gert Fröbe, Terry-Thomas) – Classic Movie Review 12,474

Director Don Sharp’s amiable enough but dithering 1967 colour British science fiction comedy film Jules Verne’s Rocket to the Moon stars Burl Ives, Troy Donahue, Gert Fröbe, Terry-Thomas, Hermione Gingold, Lionel Jeffries, Dennis Price, and […]

Apr, 10

Monster from Green Hell * (1957, Jim Davis, Robert Griffin, Joel Fluellen, Eduardo Ciannelli, Vladimir Sokoloff, Barbara Turner) – Classic Movie Review 7725

‘The mammoth monster that terrified the Earth! Too awesome to describe! Too terrifying to escape! Too powerful to stop!’ Jim Davis, a couple of decades before he played Jock Ewing in Dallas (1978-1981), stars in […]

Oct, 30

The Road to Hong Kong ** (1962, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Joan Collins) – Classic Movie Review 6981

Bing Crosby and Bob Hope’s seventh romp is the end of the road for Hope and Crosby’s ‘Road to…’ movies, though unfairly their old co-star Dorothy Lamour (who had semi-retired a decade earlier, aged only […]

Apr, 29

Operation Crossbow **** (1965, Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Richard Johnson, Tom Courtenay, Lilli Palmer, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms, Richard Todd) – Classic Movie Review 6449

The star-studded, slap-up 1965 World War Two wartime adventure movie Operation Crossbow stars Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Richard Johnson, and Tom Courtenay.  Director Michael Anderson’s star-studded, slap-up 1965 World War Two […]

Dec, 22

First Man Into Space *** (1959, Marshall Thompson, Marla Landi, Bill Edwards, Carl Jaffe) – Classic Movie Review 6144

‘First motion picture to lift the veil, foresee the future in a spectacular drama of the first man in history to be rocketed into the terrifying unknown of outer space!’ Director Robert Day’s well-liked low-budget […]

Oct, 26

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