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The Scalphunters ***½ (1968, Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters, Telly Savalas, Ossie Davis, Dabney Coleman, Dan Vadis, Nick Cravat, Paul Picerni ) – Classic Movie Review 5041

Director Sydney Pollack’s enjoyable 1968 Western stars Burt Lancaster, who is in his element as rugged, dogged fur trapper Joe Bass, who ends up with well-educated runaway slave Joseph Lee (Ossie Davis) after a group […]

Feb, 21

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans *** (2009, Rhona Mitra, Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy, Steven Mackintosh, Kevin Grevioux, David Aston) – Classic Movie Review 4908

The bad news is there’s no Kate Beckinsale’s Selene (except in a cameo) or Scott Speedman’s Michael Corvin – and series segments without the original star(s) are notoriously difficult to make or enjoy. But the […]

Jan, 19

Band of Angels ** (1957, Clark Gable, Yvonne De Carlo, Sidney Poitier, Efrem Zimbalist Jr, Rex Reason, Patric Knowles) – Classic Movie Review 3978

Director Raoul Walsh’s creaky, unenthusiastic, forgotten 1957 romantic drama Band of Angels stars Clark Gable as handsome but shady Louisiana plantation owner Hamish Bond and Yvonne De Carlo as privileged young southern belle Amantha Starr […]

Jul, 05

Arabian Nights [Il fiore delle mille e una notte] **** (1974, Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Franco Merli, Ines Pellegrini) – Classic Movie Review 3202

Co-writer/director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1974 movie is the third and finest of his Trilogy of Life movies of mediaeval stories after The Decameron (1971) and The Canterbury Tales (1972), in which tales from Thousand and […]

Dec, 31

The Good Earth **** (1937, Luise Rainer, Paul Muni, Walter Connolly, Tilly Losch, Jessie Ralph) – Classic Movie Review 2025

Director Sidney Franklin’s famous 1937 epic drama scored Luise Rainer her second Best Actress Oscar (after the previous year’s The Great Ziegfeld) and she and Paul Muni earned much deserved praise for their roles as […]

Dec, 31

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