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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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Posts Tagged "submarine"
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It Came from Beneath the Sea *** (1955, Kenneth Tobey, Faith Domergue, Donald Curtis) – Classic Movie Review 2442
Director Robert Gordon’s 1955 horror monster movie features an enormous octopus, or more properly actually a ‘sexopus’, whose job description is to cause havoc, chaos and destruction. It rises from out of the primordial Mindanao Deep […]
1941 **** (1979, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Treat Williams, Christopher Lee, Ned Beatty, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Tim Matheson, Toshiro Mifune, Warren Oates, Robert Stack) – Classic Movie Review 1,941
Steven Spielberg’s 1979 epic comedy film 1941 about a Japanese submarine arriving off Los Angeles, causing panic in the wake of Pearl Harbor, was a huge, unexpected flop. John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Treat Williams and […]
Black Sea *** (2014, Jude Law, Scoot McNairy, Tobias Menzies, Ben Mendelsohn) – Movie Review
Jude Law manfully battles odd casting, and an odder ‘Scottish’ accent, as grizzled, veteran submarine skipper Captain Robinson, who is a disgruntled, sacked employee of an ocean salvage company. Salvation seems to come when he is […]
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared **** (2013, Robert Gustafsson) – Movie Review
Robert Gustafsson stars as the dynamite expert Allan Karlsson, who escapes through the window from his old folk’s home on his 100th birthday, just when they’re bringing his cake around, along with what turns out to […]
The Abyss **** (1989, Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn) – Classic Movie Review 1293
Writer-director James Cameron’s expensive 1989 sci-fi thriller was a very rare box-office flop for him, taking only $90million worldwide. It’s hard to know quite what went wrong. It looks stunning and the trick work is […]
U-571 ***½ (2000, Matthew McConaughey, Harvey Keitel, Bill Paxton) – Classic Movie Review 1196
Co-writer/director Jonathan Mostow’s 2000 release is a controversial, but exciting, supposedly real-life World War Two submarine action adventure set in 1942, in which a German submarine is boarded by disguised United States Navy submariners seeking to capture […]
Crimson Tide **** (1995, Gene Hackman, Denzel Washington, Viggo Mortensen, James Gandolfini, Danny Nucci, Lillo Brancato, George Dzundza) – Classic Movie Review 755
Director Tony Scott’s sizzling 1995 action thriller Crimson Tide is the world’s first post-Glasnost movie. It takes us, via Scott’s own zap-up-the-Russkies pic Top Gun (1986), right back to the Cuba missile crisis films of the […]