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Full Moon in Blue Water ** (1988, Gene Hackman, Teri Garr, Burgess Meredith) – Classic Movie Review 9468

Director Peter Masterson’s shaky 1988 romantic comedy drama Full Moon in Blue Water is a stagey, wordy character drama with Gene Hackman appearing unhappy and ill at ease as Floyd, a beleaguered hero whose wife […]

Mar, 06

Please Believe Me ** (1950, Deborah Kerr, Robert Walker, Mark Stevens) – Classic Movie Review 9363

Horror expert Val Lewton unexpectedly produced a light-as-air romantic comedy as his last film in which Deborah Kerr plays Alison Kirbe of London, who is pursued aboard ship to the United States by three apparently […]

Feb, 09

Streets of Laredo ** (1949, William Holden, William Bendix, Macdonald Carey, Mona Freeman) – Classic Movie Review 9220

Director Leslie Fenton’s 1949 Western film Streets of Laredo is a routine but sturdy remake of The Texas Rangers (1936), this time starring William Holden and Macdonald Carey as old outlaw buddies Jim Dawkins (Holden) […]

Jan, 03

Alamo Bay **** (1985, Amy Madigan, Ed Harris, Ho Nguyen) – Classic Movie Review 9204

Director Louis Malle tackles the meaty socially conscious theme of racial conflict between Vietnamese immigrants and a fishing bay town community in Texas in his 1985 drama Alamo Bay. The telling of the story, inspired […]

Dec, 30

Barbarosa **** (1982, Willie Nelson, Gary Busey, Isela Vega, Gilbert Roland, George Voskovec) – Classic Movie Review 8,897

Willie Nelson is charismatic as the legendary outlaw on the run and Gary Busey is excellent as the young cowboy protégé he befriends, in Fred Schepisi’s spirited 1982 Western film Barbarosa. Director Fred Schepisi’s spirited […]

Sep, 11

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean *** (1972, Paul Newman, Ava Gardner, Victoria Principal, Anthony Perkins, Frank Soto, Ned Beatty, Jacqueline Bisset, Tab Hunter, Roddy McDowall) – Classic Movie Review 8724

Star Paul Newman and director John Huston are in easy-going mood in the likeable 1972 movie The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, an amusing if unfocused Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid-type Western […]

Jul, 17

Texasville **** (1990, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Timothy Bottoms) – Classic Movie Review 8704

Twenty years on director Peter Bogdanovich films a sequel to his first triumph The Last Picture Show (1971), with almost all the original special cast returning. It is set 32 years on in the summer […]

Jul, 13

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