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- The Return of the Whistler **½ (1948, Michael Duane, Lenore Aubert, Richard Lane) – Classic Movie Review 13,259
- Steamboat Round the Bend **** (1935, Will Rogers, Anne Shirley, Eugene Pallette) – Classic Movie Review 13,258
- In Old Kentucky *** (1935, Will Rogers, Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson, Dorothy Wilson, Russell Hardie, Louise Henry, Charles Sellon) – Classic Movie Review 13,257
- The Thirteenth Hour *** (1947, Richard Dix, Karen Morley, John Kellogg, Jim Bannon, Regis Toomey) – Classic Movie Review 13,256
- Guns of Darkness ** (1962, David Niven, Leslie Caron, James Robertson Justice, David Opatoshu) – Classic Movie Review 13,255
- Walk on Water **** (2004, Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters) – Classic Movie Review 13,254
- The Secret of the Whistler *** (1946, Richard Dix, Leslie Brooks, Michael Duane, Mary Currier, Mona Barrie, Claire Du Brey) – Classic Movie Review 13,253
- Kiss the Boys Goodbye **½ (1941, Don Ameche, Mary Martin, Oscar Levant) – Classic Movie Review 13,252
- Forbidden Cargo ** (1954, Nigel Patrick, Elizabeth Sellars, Terence Morgan, Jack Warner, Greta Gynt, Joyce Grenfell, Theodore Bikel) – Classic Movie Review 13,251
- Voice of the Whistler **½ (1945, Richard Dix, Lynn Merrick, Rhys Williams, James Cardwell) – Classic Movie Review 13,250
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Driving Miss Daisy **** (1989, Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd) – Classic Movie Review 7047
Director Bruce Beresford’s 1989 comedy drama is based on his own Pulitzer Prize-winning play by screen-writer Alfred Uhry and triumphed at the box office (it took $106 million in the US) and at the Academy […]
The King and Four Queens ** (1956, Clark Gable, Jo Van Fleet, Eleanor Parker, Barbara Nichols, Jean Willes, Sara Shane) – Classic Movie Review 6805
Director Raoul Walsh’s roistering and raunchy 1956 Western has a tailor-made role for an agreeably ageing Clark Gable (now no longer with his long-term studio MGM) as the King (his movie nickname too as the […]
The Ghost and Mrs Muir **** (1947, Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders, Edna Best, Vanessa Brown, Anna Lee, Natalie Wood, Robert Coote) – Classic Movie Review 6,567
The 1947 fantasy comedy drama film The Ghost and Mrs Muir stars Gene Tierney as the widowed Mrs Lucy Muir, who buys a haunted home on the English coast. Lucy is befriended by the ghost […]
Aquarius **** (2016, Sonia Braga, Maeve Jinkings, Irandhir Santos) – Movie Review
Brazilian film-maker Kleber Mendonca Filho’s exceptional 2016 film boasts a career high performance from Sonia Braga (Kiss of the Spider Woman, 1985). She plays 65-year old widowed retired music critic Clara, the last resident of […]
With Six You Get Eggroll ** (1968, Doris Day, Brian Keith, Pat Carroll, Barbara Hershey, George Carlin) – Classic Movie Review 6365
Director Howard Morris’s 1968 movie With Six You Get Eggroll has a lovely title for a genially amusing Doris Day comedy, in which she plays Abby McClure, a widow juggling a career as a lumberyard […]
A Town Called Bastard [A Town Called Hell] **½ (1971, Telly Savalas, Robert Shaw, Stella Stevens, Martin Landau, Michael Craig, Fernando Rey, Dudley Sutton) – Classic Movie Review 6345
Director Robert Parrish’s cold-blooded, crudely made and excessively violent 1971 Spaghetti Western (or paella Western as it is filmed in Spain), with its main assets in the dependable cast – especially Robert Shaw, Martin Landau, […]
That Certain Woman *** (1937, Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, Ian Hunter, Anita Louise, Donald Crisp) – Classic Movie Review 6291
‘You know, I believe I’m like one of those unfortunate gals you only read about in those dime novels… she only loved once.’ – Mary Donnell. That Certain Woman is a glamorous-looking Bette Davis, who […]