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The Dark Light *½ (1951, Albert Lieven, David Greene) – Classic Movie Review 13,001

Vernon Sewell’s entirely adequate 1951 low-budget British black and white second feature thriller film The Dark Light stars Albert Lieven and David Greene in a tale of a lighthouse crew unwittingly rescuing a gang of […]

Jul, 22

Twilight for the Gods ** (1958, Rock Hudson, Cyd Charisse, Arthur Kennedy, Leif Erickson) – Classic Movie Review 10,913

‘Loved…Hated… Feared… Envied… but only this woman wanted him enough to break the laws of Gods and men!’ Director Joseph Pevney’s 1958 Eastmancolor Universal International Pictures adventure Twilight for the Gods is based on a […]

Feb, 14

Typhoon *** (1940, Dorothy Lamour, Robert Preston, Lynne Overman, J Carrol Naish, Frank Reicher, Jack Carson) – Classic Movie Review 6993

The admirable Dorothy Lamour stars again in director Louis King’s jolly, carefully contrived 1940 film vehicle for her as Dea, a beautiful island girl, cast away on the island from when she was a child, discovered […]

May, 03

Ferry to Hong Kong ** (1959, Curd Jürgens, Orson Welles, Sylvia Syms, Jeremy Spenser, Noel Purcell) – Classic Movie Review 6752

‘It was my nightmare film. It was a dreadful film, and everything was wrong with it, principally Welles.’ Hooray for Curt Jurgens [Curd Jürgens] and Orson Welles, who have a field day hamming it up as, […]

Feb, 28

Terror Is a Man ** (1959, Francis Lederer, Greta Thyssen, Richard Derr) – Classic Movie Review 6542

Greta Thyssen plays the voluptuous wife of the secretive scientist Dr Charles Girard (Francis Lederer) in director Gerardo de Leon’s entertaining Z-movie version of H G Wells’s The Island of Dr Moreau. Richard Derr plays William Fitzgerald, who is shipwrecked on […]

Jan, 10

Fury at Smugglers’ Bay *** (1961, Peter Cushing, John Fraser, Bernard Lee, William Franklyn, June Thorburn, Miles Malleson, Michèle Mercier, George Coulouris, Liz Fraser) – Classic Movie Review 4175

Writer-director John Gilling’s fun 1961 period adventure stars Peter Cushing as a Cornish squire who tries to keep the smugglers at bay. Gilling’s British sea saga about a gang of shipwreckers’ reign of terror in […]

Aug, 15

The Most Dangerous Game [The Hounds of Zaroff] ***** (1932, Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks) – Classic Movie Review 1724

Directors Ernest B Schoedsack and Irving Pichel’s still haunting, potent and chilling 1932 horror thriller stars an inspired Leslie Banks as Count Zaroff, a mad Russian nobleman who arranges for a ship to be wrecked […]

Sep, 30

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