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Johnny Got His Gun **** (1971, Timothy Bottoms, Jason Robards Jnr, Marsha Hunt, Donald Sutherland, Kathy Fields, Diane Varsi) – Classic Movie Review 4281

Writer-director Dalton Trumbo’s brilliant and devastating 1971 movie stars Timothy Bottoms as bomb-wounded First World War soldier Joe Bonham who wakes up without half his body. He has no limbs, sight, hearing or speech. When […]

Sep, 01

The Triple Echo [Soldier in Skirts] *** (1972, Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed, Brian Deacon) – Classic Movie Review 4278

Michael Apted directs this intriguing 1972 British film adaptation of an H E Bates story set in Wiltshire during World War Two. In his film debut, 23-year-old Brian Deacon stars as Barton, a young English soldier […]

Sep, 01

The Outlaw Josey Wales ***** (1976, Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Chief Dan George, Sam Bottoms, John Vernon, Bill McKinney, Matt Clark) – Classic Movie Review 4109

Clint Eastwood’s 1976 storming revenge Western is still the last great Western, despite later challenges for the title from Dances with Wolves (1990) and his own Unforgiven (1992). Eastwood directs himself as Josey Wales, a Missouri farmer man of peace who […]

Jul, 31

The Little Minister *** (1934, Katharine Hepburn, John Beal, Alan Hale) – Classic Movie Review 3939

The young Katharine Hepburn exudes sprightly charisma in director Richard Wallace’s 1934 RKO film of J M Barrie’s fanciful novel and play about a staid 19th-century Scots minister called the Reverend Gavin Dishart (John Beal). He […]

Jun, 26

Stage Door Canteen **** (1943, William Terry, Cheryl Walker, Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead) – Classic Movie Review 3,894

Franz Borzage’s glittering 1943 movie Stage Door Canteen is essential viewing for a nostalgic star-spotting look at Broadway’s and Hollywood’s Forties élite. It features 48 stars and six bands.  The 1943 American World War Two […]

Jun, 20

Hollywood Canteen **** (1944, Bette Davis, John Garfield, Joan Leslie, Robert Hutton, Dane Clark, The Andrews Sisters) – Classic Movie Review 3882

Writer-director Delmer Daves’s 1944 World War Two morale-boosting musical and toast to the real-life Hollywood Canteen vastly entertains with its high spirits, good humour, good intentions, and high-quota camp and nostalgia value. As Bette Davis and […]

Jun, 19

Invasion of the Star Creatures * (1962, Robert Ball, Frankie Ray) – Classic Movie Review 3776

Robert Ball and Frankie Ray are putridly unfunny as Private Philbrick and Private Penn, US soldiers who investigate a mysterious crater in an atomic detonation area and uncover the titular lady alien Star Creatures (Dolores Reed […]

May, 28

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