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We’re Not Dressing **** (1934, Bing Crosby, Carole Lombard, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Leon Errol, Ethel Merman) – Classic Movie Review 12,614

Paramount Pictures’ 1934 screwball musical comedy film We’re Not Dressing stars Bing Crosby, Carole Lombard, George Burns, Gracie Allen and Ethel Merman, and is based on the 1902 J M Barrie play The Admirable Crichton. Director Norman […]

Aug, 18

Sinners in Paradise *** (1938, Madge Evans, John Boles, Bruce Cabot, Marion Martin, Gene Lockhart) – Classic Movie Review 12,044

Director James Whale’s American 1938 South Seas adventure film Sinners in Paradise stars Madge Evans, John Boles, Bruce Cabot, Marion Martin and Gene Lockhart. A passenger aircraft crashes in mid-Pacific and some survivors of the […]

Apr, 05

Return to the Blue Lagoon ** (1991, Brian Krause, Milla Jovovich, Lisa Pelikan) – Classic Movie Review 8931

‘In a secluded paradise… surrounded by a coral sea, a boy and a girl grew up alone. Now they are experiencing the first awakenings of love. A love that can only be threatened… by discovery.’ […]

Sep, 23

Swiss Family Robinson **** (1960, John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Tommy Kirk, Kevin Corcoran, Janet Munro, Sussue Hayakawa, Cecil Parker) – Classic Movie Review 6933

Director Ken Annakin’s 1960 young people’s adventure movie Swiss Family Robinson is an old-style treat, a happy, well-produced, and thoroughly entertaining Disney version of the shipwrecked family stranded on a desert island saga. Based on […]

Apr, 16

Naked Paradise * (1957, Richard Denning, Beverly Garland, Lisa Montell, Leslie Bradley, Dick Miller, Jonathan Haze) – Classic Movie Review 3977

‘Temptation and terror… in a savage land of wild desire!’ Director Roger Corman’s 1957 Sunset Productions/ American International Pictures thriller stars Richard Denning and Beverly Garland as Duke Bradley and Max MacKenzie, with Lisa Montell as Lanai. It co-stars Leslie Bradley as gangster Zach […]

Jul, 05

The Blue Lagoon *** (1980, Brooke Shields, Christopher Atkins, Leo McKern) – Classic Movie Review 1254

Director Randal Kleiser’s striking-looking but daft 1980 romantic adventure movie of Henry De Vere Stacpoole’s novel remakes the 1949 British film The Blue Lagoon with Jean Simmons and Donald Houston, but adds a lot of […]

May, 26

The Thin Red Line ***** (1998, Jim Caviezel, Ben Chaplin, John Cusack, Elias Koteas, Nick Nolte, Sean Penn, Adrien Brody, Woody Harrelson, John C Reilly) – Classic Movie Review 478

An absolutely stonking, gut-wrenching and astounding poetic war movie masterpiece from legendary writer-director Terrence Malick, this was only his third film in three decades. Based on the autobiographical 1962 novel by James Jones (From Here […]

Dec, 07

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