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Daughters Courageous *** (1939, Claude Rains, John Garfield, Jeffrey Lynn, Fay Bainter, Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane) – Classic Movie Review 11,901

Director Michael Curtiz’s 1939 follow-up Warner Bros black and white drama film Daughters Courageous stars Claude Rains, John Garfield, Jeffrey Lynn, Fay Bainter, Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane, Gale Page, Donald Crisp, May Robson, […]

Feb, 03

Salmonberries **½ (1991, k d Lang, Rosel Zech, Oscar Kawagley, Chuck Connors) – Classic Movie Review 11,852

Writer-director Percy Adlon’s 1991 German drama film Salmonberries stars k d lang, Rosel Zech, Oscar Kawagley, Chuck Connors and Jane Lind, with dialogue mostly in English. Canadian singer k d lang plays androgynous orphaned Eskimo drifter Kotzebue, […]

Jan, 16

Black Horse Canyon *** (1954, Joel McCrea, Mari Blanchard, Race Gentry, Murvyn Vye) – Classic Movie Review 11,823

Director Jesse Hibbs’s pleasingly done 1954 Universal Pictures Technicolor Western film Black Horse Canyon stars Joel McCrea, Mari Blanchard, Race Gentry, Murvyn Vye. McCrea brings his well-honed brand of careworn integrity to Hibbs’s pleasing frontier […]

Jan, 03

Three Wishes ** (1995, Patrick Swayze, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Joseph Mazzello, Seth Mumy) – Classic Movie Review 10,474

‘If you really believe, magic will find you’. Director Martha Coolidge’s 1995 Three Wishes is a soft-centred, corny feel-good fantasy movie that stars Patrick Swayze as injured vagrant Jack McCloud being invited to move in […]

Oct, 28

The Fugitive Kind *** (1960, Marlon Brando, Joanne Woodward, Anna Magnani) – Classic Movie Review 6948

‘With a guitar and a snakeskin jacket he drifted out of the rain… into the lives of these two women…’ Tennessee Williams’s second-level 1957 tragic play Orpheus Descending gets the extravagant full-monty emoting it needs […]

Apr, 19

Pennies from Heaven *** (1936, Bing Crosby, Edith Fellows, Madge Evans, Louis Armstrong, Donald Meek) – Classic Movie Review 6890

Bing Crosby stars as Larry Poole, a Thirties modern-day troubadour with ambitions to be a singing gondolier in Venice. But, after a short spell in jail on a trumped-up charge, he fulfills a promise to […]

Apr, 06

The Illustrated Man ** (1969, Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom, Robert Drivas) – Classic Movie Review 6848

As 1930s psychotic drifter Carl, Rod Steiger is tattooed from neck to foot for director Jack Smight’s offbeat and fascinating 1969 film from a book by Ray Bradbury. Each of his tattoos tells a disturbing […]

Mar, 24

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