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Beyond Glory ** (1948 Alan Ladd, Donna Reed, George Macready) – Classic Movie Review 10,116

Alan Ladd stars in ‘an adventure which cowards quit early and weaklings never finish at all!’ Director John Farrow’s 1948 black and white Paramount Pictures drama Beyond Glory stars Alan Ladd as Captain Rockwell ‘Rocky’ Gilman, […]

Jul, 31

The Ambassador’s Daughter ** (1956, Olivia de Havilland, John Forsythe, Myrna Loy, Edward Arnold, Adolphe Menjou) – Classic Movie Review 10,110

‘A gay, bubbly magnum of fun.’ Writer-producer-director Norman Krasna’s 1956 pleasant if past its sell-by date comedy The Ambassador’s Daughter stars Olivia de Havilland and John Forsythe, who give it their best shot, but that […]

Jul, 30

One Foot in Hell *** (1960, Alan Ladd, Dan O’Herlihy, Don Murray, Dolores Michaels) – Classic Movie Review 10,101

Director James B Clark’s odd, interesting, often quite compelling 1960 revenge Western film One Foot in Hell stars a well-cast Alan Ladd as the bitter Mitch Barrett taking it out on the Arizona small town […]

Jul, 29

Sunflower [I Girasoli] * (1970, Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Lyudmila Saveleva) – Classic Movie Review 9999

Director Vittorio De Sica’s 1970 drama Sunflower [I Girasoli] is a soppy wartime romantic melodrama, in which a particularly gorgeous-looking Sophia Loren plays Giovanna, who spends most of her time searching for her husband Antonio […]

Jul, 04

No Room for the Groom ** (1952, Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie, Don DeFore, Spring Byington) – Classic Movie Review 9849

Director Douglas Sirk’s 1952 No Room for the Groom is a frothy light comedy centring on GI Alvah Morrell (Tony Curtis) eloping to marry Lee Kingshead (Piper Laurie) in Las Vegas before she has had […]

May, 31

The Glory Guys ** (1965, Tom Tryon, Harve Presnell, Senta Berger, James Caan, Harve Presnell, Senta Berger, Andrew Duggan, Slim Pickens, Michael Anderson Jr) – Classic Movie Review 9811

Director Arnold Laven’s 1965 film The Glory Guys is a sturdy Sam Peckinpah-scripted glossy Western about an ill-prepared US cavalry attack on the Sioux. Tom Tryon stars as Captain Demas Harrod, the soldier unwilling to send […]

May, 23

Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers **½ (1977, Robin Askwith, Nigel Davenport, George Layton, Robin Nedwell, Warren Mitchell, John le Mesurier, Edward Woodward, Irene Handl) – Classic Movie Review 9739

Leslie Thomas scripts from his own novel, but is the now iconic Seventies cast that is the making of the 1977 British army sex comedy Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers. Director Norman Cohen’s 1977 British army […]

May, 09

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