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The Last Hurrah **** (1958, Spencer Tracy, Jeffrey Hunter, Dianne Foster, John Carradine, Basil Rathbone, Pat O’Brien) – Classic Movie Review 3388

Director John Ford’s well-staged, effectively acted and involving if rather cosy and cuddly 1958 political drama The Last Hurrah is the second of his three distinguished films with young star Jeffrey Hunter, following The Searchers […]

Feb, 20

Crack-Up *** (1946, Pat O’Brien, Claire Trevor, Herbert Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 3,318

RKO’s entertaining 1946 Hitchcock-style American film noir espionage thriller film Crack-Up stars Pat O’Brien in rather unlikely casting as George Steele, a small museum art expert and curator probing what turns out to be a […]

Feb, 03

The Mummy’s Tomb **½ (1942, Lon Chaney Jr, Turhan Bey, George Zucco, Dick Foran, Wallace Ford, John Hubbard) – Classic Movie Review 3299

Lon Chaney Jnr takes over from Tom Tyler as Kharis the Mummy in director Harold Young’s slightly less good 1942 sequel to The Mummy’s Hand (1940). This time the living Mummy is sent to America […]

Jan, 29

Harvey ***** (1950, James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Peggy Dow, Charles Drake, Cecil Kellaway, Wallace Ford, Ida Moore, Jesse White) – Classic Movie Review 3175

‘The Wonderful Pulitzer Prize Play… becomes one of the Great Motion Pictures of our Time!’ Don’t undersell it, will you? Director Henry Koster’s enchanting 1950 comedy enshrines one of James Stewart’s most delightful and beloved […]

Dec, 20

The Mummy’s Hand *** (1940, Dick Foran, Wallace Ford, George Zucco, Cecil Kellaway, Peggy Moran, Tom Tyler, Eduardo Ciannelli) – Classic Movie Review 2816

‘The tomb of a thousand terrors!’ Director Christy Cabanne’s lusty 1940 American black-and-white horror sequel The Mummy’s Hand is only 67 minutes long but re-uses more than 10 minutes of footage from Universal Pictures’ The […]

Aug, 15

Freaks ***** (1932, Wallace Ford, Olga Baclanova, Leila Hyams, Roscoe Ates, Harry Earles, Daisy Earles, Henry Victor) – Classic Movie Review 2462

‘Gooba-gobble, gooba-gobble. We accept her. One of us, one of us.’ MGM production supervisor Irving Thalberg, a man of discernment who produced immaculately tasteful films like Romeo and Juliet, ordered something that ‘out-horrors Frankenstein’. And director […]

May, 08

The Set-Up ***** (1949, Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias, Alan Baxter, Wallace Ford) – Classic Movie Review 2,388

Robert Wise’s great 1949 fight game movie The Set-Up stars Robert Ryan in a knockout performance as a has-been fighter who won’t take a dive. Director Robert Wise’s great 1949 fight game movie The Set-Up […]

Apr, 14

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