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- The Return of the Whistler **½ (1948, Michael Duane, Lenore Aubert, Richard Lane) – Classic Movie Review 13,259
- Steamboat Round the Bend **** (1935, Will Rogers, Anne Shirley, Eugene Pallette) – Classic Movie Review 13,258
- In Old Kentucky *** (1935, Will Rogers, Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson, Dorothy Wilson, Russell Hardie, Louise Henry, Charles Sellon) – Classic Movie Review 13,257
- The Thirteenth Hour *** (1947, Richard Dix, Karen Morley, John Kellogg, Jim Bannon, Regis Toomey) – Classic Movie Review 13,256
- Guns of Darkness ** (1962, David Niven, Leslie Caron, James Robertson Justice, David Opatoshu) – Classic Movie Review 13,255
- Walk on Water **** (2004, Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters) – Classic Movie Review 13,254
- The Secret of the Whistler *** (1946, Richard Dix, Leslie Brooks, Michael Duane, Mary Currier, Mona Barrie, Claire Du Brey) – Classic Movie Review 13,253
- Kiss the Boys Goodbye **½ (1941, Don Ameche, Mary Martin, Oscar Levant) – Classic Movie Review 13,252
- Forbidden Cargo ** (1954, Nigel Patrick, Elizabeth Sellars, Terence Morgan, Jack Warner, Greta Gynt, Joyce Grenfell, Theodore Bikel) – Classic Movie Review 13,251
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The Cry of the Owl *** (2009, Paddy Considine, Julia Stiles, Karl Pruner) – Classic Movie Review 3550
Director Jamie Thraves also writes the screenplay of this intriguing 2009 thriller, adapting the novel by Patricia Highsmith that had already provided a most satisfying movie version in 1987 from masterly Claude Chabrol, The Cry of the […]
Alice Adams **** (1935, Katharine Hepburn, Fred MacMurray, Evelyn Venable, Fred Stone) – Classic Movie Review 3419
Director George Stevens’s 1935 romantic drama offers the young Hepburn grabs one of her best opportunities as Alice Adams, a pushy, snobbish, spikey, upwardly mobile young woman who catches the eye of eligible society bachelor […]
Village of the Damned ** (1995, Christopher Reeve, Kirstie Alley, Linda Kozlowski, Michael Paré, Mark Hamill) – Classic Movie Review 3194
In a village in Marin County, everyone falls asleep and, when they wake up six hours later, ten women, including a virgin, are pregnant. Nine months after, there are ten lookalike babies all with white […]
Misery **** (1990, James Caan, Kathy Bates, Richard Farnsworth, Frances Sternhagen, Lauren Bacall, Graham Jarvis, J T Walsh) – Classic Movie Review 3,146
Rob Reiner films Stephen King’s gruesome shocker novel Misery with a relentless tension in this engrossing and startling 1990 horror movie starring James Caan, Kathy Bates, Richard Farnsworth, Frances Sternhagen and Lauren Bacall. ‘Oh forgive […]
American Ultra ** (2015, Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Connie Britton, Topher Grace, John Leguizamo, Bill Pullman, Walton Goggins, Tony Hale) – Movie Review
Jesse Eisenberg stars as small-town stoner Mike Howell, who works in a mini-mart and is writing a graphic novel about a superhero monkey (Apollo Ape) but doesn’t know he was trained by the CIA to be a lethal […]
Vivacious Lady **** (1938, Ginger Rogers, James Stewart, Charles Coburn, Beulah Bondi, James Ellison) – Classic Movie Review 2709
Producer-director George Stevens’s expert and delightful 1938 comedy pairs James Stewart and Rogers effectively. The stars are perfectly cast and on their best form. Stewart plays young university professor Peter Morgan who takes a quick […]
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek ***** (1944, Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn, William Demarest, Porter Hall, Brian Donlevy, Akim Tamiroff) – Classic Movie Review 2622
Writer-producer-director Preston Sturges’s much-loved 1944 screwball comedy The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek is one of his handful of great cinema classics. Sturges’s funny, frantic and tasteless attack on many of America’s most sacred cows from […]