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Mister Roberts ***** (1955, Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell, Jack Lemmon) – Classic Movie Review 5,882

Henry Fonda re-creates his Broadway role as the war-mongering officer Lieutenant Roberts aboard a World War Two cargo ship battling with tyrannical ship’s captain Captain Morton (James Cagney), in the 1955 comedy drama film Mr […]

Aug, 08

The Wings of Eagles *** (1957, John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, Dan Dailey, Ward Bond) – Classic Movie Review 3412

This strongly felt, nostalgic 1957 personal project from director John Ford turns out to be an uneven, minor airborne action drama providing an interesting but bumpy ride. But there are lots of incidental real pleasures […]

Feb, 26

xXx2: The Next Level ** (2004, Ice Cube, Samuel L Jackson, Willem Dafoe, Scott Speedman, Xzibit, Peter Strauss, Sunny Mabrey) – Classic Movie Review 3160

So they couldn’t persuade Vin Diesel to do the sequel to the 2002 hit xXx and replaced him with the world’s least likely action man, Ice Cube, who is predictably all at sea as imprisoned […]

Dec, 17

South Pacific ***** (1958, Mitzi Gaynor, Rossano Brazzi, John Kerr, France Nuyen, Juanita Hall, Ray Walston) – Classic Movie Review 2181

South Pacific (1958) is certainly some enchanted evening in the cinema, as original theatre director Joshua Logan brings Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (score)’s classic 1949 Broadway musical to the screen with its […]

Feb, 19

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 […]

Jan, 26

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