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Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier *** (1955, Fess Parker, Buddy Ebsen, Basil Ruysdael) – Classic Movie Review 6485

How many ears has Davy Crockett? Three. Two at the side and a wild frontier! Director Norman Foster’s 1955 Western is the first of two Walt Disney cinema features successfully stitched together for cinema audiences […]

Dec, 29

The Wonderful Country *** (1959, Robert Mitchum, Julie London, Gary Merrill, Charles McGraw, Pedro Armendáriz, Jack Oakie, Albert Dekker) – Classic Movie Review 6352

‘ The pistolero…who was as proud as the mighty black stallion he rode…the man who hungered for the softness of a woman and the clean skies of The Wonderful Country!’ They sure don’t write ’em like […]

Dec, 03

North West Mounted Police *** (1940, Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Paulette Goddard, Preston Foster, Robert Preston, George Bancroft) – Classic Movie Review 6071

The Paramount Pictures studio was rewarded with a hit when it paid for a top cast and Technicolor for producer-director Cecil B DeMille’s somewhat mundane, but well and busily plotted 1940 action adventure about the […]

Oct, 10

The Wheeler Dealers [Separate Beds] *** (1963, James Garner, Lee Remick, Phil Harris, Chill Wills, Jim Backus, Louis Nye, John Astin) – Classic Movie Review 5991

The friendly, glossy 1963 satirical romantic comedy film The Wheeler Dealers stars James Garner as a stock-market mogul who storms the business world with an imaginary product. Even changing the title for the UK from […]

Aug, 29

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre *** (2003, Jessica Biel, Jonathan Tucker, Erica Leerhsen, Mike Vogel, Eric Balfour, Andrew Bryniarski, R Lee Ermey) – Classic Movie Review 5989

Five terrified teens are stuck in a 1973 Texas town and fighting for their lives against a crazy chainsaw-wielding monster, the chilling masked Leatherface (Andrew Bryniarski), and his cannibal family. Director Marcus Nispel’s hit 2003 […]

Aug, 29

Nadine *** (1987, Kim Basinger, Jeff Bridges, Rip Torn, Gwen Verdon, Glenne Headly, Jerry Stiller) – Classic Movie Review 5571

A murder brings together rowing married partners Nadine and Vernon Hightower (played by Kim Basinger and Jeff Bridges) in writer-director Robert Benton’s scatty 1987 screwball comedy thriller helped a lot by the bright and lively […]

Jun, 10

Extreme Prejudice ** (1987, Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe, Michael Ironside) – Classic Movie Review 5460

Director Walter Hill’s disappointing 1987 movie kind of works as a basic action thriller but tells an extremely scrappy, violent and confused story. It reunites Hill with Powers Boothe after Southern Comfort (1981). Nick Nolte stars […]

May, 15

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