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Night Unto Night ** (1949, Ronald Reagan, Viveca Lindfors, Broderick Crawford) – Classic Movie Review 7981

Director Don Siegel’s intriguing and offbeat but rather ploddingly handled 1949 Warner Bros black and white romantic drama Night unto Night stars Ronald Reagan, Viveca Lindfors, Rosemary DeCamp and Broderick Crawford. Lindfors and Reagan play […]

Jan, 05

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

Jungle Jim in the Forbidden Land ** (1952, Johnny Weissmuller, Angela Greene, Jean Willes, Lester Matthews) – Classic Movie Review 7700

Director Lew Landers’s 1952 adventure Jungle Jim in the Forbidden Land is another in Columbia Pictures’ 16-film Jungle Jim series (1948-55), starring Johnny Weissmuller who had retired after 16 years as the screen’s most famous […]

Oct, 24

The Frozen Dead * (1966, Dana Andrews, Anna Palk, Philip Gilbert, Karel Stepanek) – Classic Movie Review 7293

Producer, screenwriter, director Herbert J Leder’s gleefully ridiculous 1966 British zombies plus Nazis mashup horror film The Frozen Dead stars Dana Andrews, Anna Palk, Philip Gilbert, and Karel Stepanek. The frozen dead are refrigerated top Nazis whom […]

Jul, 15

Rampage ***½ (2018, Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jake Lacy) – Movie Review

Director Brad Peyton’s monster movie Rampage is daft and disposable but likeable, fast paced, dynamic and a lot of fun, with good effects and a strong score (Andrew Lockington), and a winning central turn by […]

Apr, 13

A Wrinkle in Time * (2018, Storm Reid, Levi Miller, Deric McCabe, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Chris Pine) – Movie Review

Director Ava DuVernay’s Disney kids and early-teen movie for easily entertained girls is embarrassingly awful, with a shamelessly manipulative and sentimental screenplay by Jennifer Lee and Jeff Stockwell, based upon the novel by Madeleine L’Engle. It plays like a […]

Mar, 29

Mystery Submarine ** (1950, Macdonald Carey, Märta Torén, Robert Douglas, Carl Esmond, Ludwig Donath) – Classic Movie Review 6674

Director Douglas Sirk’s little-known 1952 thriller stars Macdonald Carey as undercover US Navy Intelligence Officer Dr Brett Young, who sets out to save naive duped widow Madeline Brenner (Swedish star Märta Torén) and kidnapped scientist Euro-boffin Dr Adolph […]

Feb, 10

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