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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
‘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 […]
‘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 […]
‘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 […]
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 […]