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The Trap *** (1959, Richard Widmark, Lee J Cobb, Tina Louise, Earl Holliman) – Classic Movie Review 9016

Co-writer/ co-producer/ director Norman Panama’s 1959 action crime thriller The Trap [The Baited Trap] stars Lee J Cobb as low-life law-breaker Victor Massonetti, a wanted mobster who is attempting to hide from the cops before […]

Oct, 24

Whoopee! **** (1930, Eddie Cantor, Ethel Shutta, Paul Gregory, Eleanor Hunt, Jack Rutherford, Spencer Charters, Albert Hackett) – Classic Movie Review 8562

Director Thornton Freeland’s 1930 early Technicolor musical Whoopee! showcases one of Eddie Cantor’s quintessential performances based on his hit Ziegfeld Broadway show as the hypochondriac shy guy Henry Williams, who makes romantic whoopee at a […]

Jun, 07

Convoy **** (1978, Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Ernest Borgnine, Burt Young) – Classic Movie Review 8488

Director Sam Peckinpah’s surprisingly relaxed, warm and likeable anarchic 1978 trucker comedy Convoy stars Kris Kristofferson as good ol’ boy Rubber Duck and follows his fight for freedom on the highways, hotly pursued by bad […]

May, 21

The Neanderthal Man * (1953, Robert Shayne, Joyce Terry, Richard Crane) – Classic Movie Review 8346

Director E A Dupont’s 1953 black and white sci-fi  horror movie The Neanderthal Man stars Robert Shayne as mad scientist Professor Clifford Groves, who takes his serum and turns a cat into a saber-tooth tiger […]

Apr, 08

The Man from Utah ** (1934, John Wayne, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Polly Ann Young, Anita Campillo, Edward Peil Sr, Yakima Canutt, George Cleveland) – Classic Movie Review 8235

Young John Wayne sits tall in the saddle in director Robert N Bradbury’s 1934 The Man from Utah, another average, low-budget Thirties Western from the Duke. In the story and screenplay by Lindsley Parsons, Wayne […]

Mar, 13

Smokey and the Bandit II *** (1980, Burt Reynolds, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, Sally Field, Dom DeLuise, Paul Williams, Pat McCormick) – Classic Movie Review 7559

Director Hal Needham’s 1980 action comedy sequel Smokey and the Bandit II (aka Smokey and the Bandit Ride Again) brings Burt Reynolds back from the 1977 hit original Smokey and the Bandit as truck driver […]

Sep, 11

Simple Men **** (1992, Robert John Burke, William Sage, Karen Sillas, Elina Löwensohn, Martin Donovan) – Classic Movie Review 7101

Writer-director Hal Hartley’s striking third feature Simple Men (1992) reaches the parts other movies do not, as a pair of brothers, Bill and Dennis McCabe (Robert John Burke, William Sage) – good boys with bad […]

May, 27

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