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The Devil’s 8 [The Devil’s Eight] ** (1968, Christopher George, Ralph Meeker, Fabian Forte, Tom Nardini, Leslie Parrish, Ross Hagen, Cliff Osmond, Larry Bishop) – Classic Movie Review 9000

This time, in director Burt Topper’s 1968 The Devil’s 8 [The Devil’s Eight], it is a Dirty Half Dozen or So, as US federal government agent Ray Faulkner (Christopher George) lines up an ill-assorted gang […]

Oct, 21

Li’l Abner **** (1959, Peter Palmer, Leslie Parrish, Stubby Kaye, Billie Hayes, Howard St John, Stella Stevens, Julie Newmar) – Classic Movie Review 8934

Director Melvin Frank and producer Norman Panama’s 1959 Technicolor musical Li’l Abner is an extremely bright and breezy film version of the delightful 1956 Broadway show based on the comic strip by Al Capp’s comic […]

Sep, 23

And Now for Something Completely Different **** (1971, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Carol Cleveland) – Classic Movie Review 8791

Thank goodness the Monty Python team got the chance to put some of the most famous sketches compiled from their BBC TV series Monty Python’s Flying Circus down on celluloid in Ian MacNaughton’s 1971 And […]

Aug, 04

The Unholy Wife ** (1957, Diana Dors, Rod Steiger, Tom Tryon, Beulah Bondi, Marie Windsor, Arthur Franz) – Classic Movie Review 8484

‘HALF-ANGEL……HALF-DEVIL, she made him HALF-A-MAN! ‘ After I Married a Woman, in August 1956 Diana Dors signed a contract with RKO Pictures to make three more movies, the first of which was the 1957 Technicolor film noir crime […]

May, 19

Godspell *** (1973, Victor Garber, David Haskell, Jerry Sroka, Lynne Thigpen, Katie Hanley, Robin Lamont) – Classic Movie Review 8313

Director David Greene’s 1973 film of the deliberately naïve hit musical Godspell (a stage hit for David Essex in Britain) by Stephen Schwartz (music) and John Michael Tebelak (lyrics) turns the story of Christ into […]

Mar, 30

A Day of Fury ** (1956, Dale Robertson, Mara Corday, Jock Mahoney, Carl Benton Reid, John Dehner, Jan Merlin, James Bell) – Classic Movie Review 8311

Director Harmon Jones’s sturdy 1956 Universal Pictures Western film A Day of Fury stars Dale Robertson as the pistol-slinging cowboy Jagade, unhappy with the cleaned-up town where he dwells, who decides to reopen the saloon […]

Mar, 29

The Man from Utah ** (1934, John Wayne, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Polly Ann Young, Anita Campillo, Edward Peil Sr, Yakima Canutt, George Cleveland) – Classic Movie Review 8235

Young John Wayne sits tall in the saddle in director Robert N Bradbury’s 1934 The Man from Utah, another average, low-budget Thirties Western from the Duke. In the story and screenplay by Lindsley Parsons, Wayne […]

Mar, 13

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