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Green Dolphin Street ** (1947, Lana Turner, Richard Hart, Edmund Gwenn, Van Heflin, Donna Reed, Frank Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 12,515

MGM’s 1947 historical disaster film Green Dolphin Street is an over-busy and unconvincing melodrama set in 19th-century New Zealand, where sisters Lana Turner and Donna Reed are vying for Richard Hart, romantic rival to Van […]

May, 26

In Search of the Castaways *** (1962, Hayley Mills, Maurice Chevalier, George Sanders) – Classic Movie Review 8291

‘A Thousand Thrills, And Hayley Mills!’ ‘An Earthquake of Entertainment!’ ‘Only Walt Disney could tell this incredible Jules Verne adventure!’ Walt Disney’s second raid on Jules Verne (after 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea) boasts a […]

Mar, 24

The Colossus of Rhodes [Il Colosso di Rodi] *** (1961, Rory Calhoun, Lea Massari, Georges Marchal, Conrado San Martín, Ángel Aranda) – Classic Movie Review 8106

Director Sergio Leone’s 1961 The Colossus of Rhodes [Il Colosso di Rodi] is a colossus of a Sixties Euro-production historical epic, with sole American Rory Calhoun (acting with a constant piranha smile) as the outsider […]

Feb, 08

The Night the World Exploded * (1957, Kathryn Grant, William Leslie, Tristram Coffin) – Classic Movie Review 6109

‘Super-quake tilts the earth!’ Director Fred F Sears’s silly and not much fun 1957 science fiction film stars Kathryn Grant as Laura Hutchinson, William Leslie as Dr David Conway, Tristram Coffin as Dr Ellis Morton, Raymond Greenleaf as Governor Chaney and Charles Evans as […]

Oct, 19

Our Man Flint *** (1966, James Coburn, Lee J Cobb, Gila Golan) – Classic Movie Review 5923

Director Daniel Mann’s 1966 spy adventure stars smirking supercool James Coburn as quintessential Swinging Sixties American spy Derek Flint in this first of his series of send-up espionage thrillers (which surprisingly terminated abruptly after the […]

Aug, 16

The Rains Came **** (1939, Myrna Loy, Tyrone Power, George Brent, Brenda Joyce, Nigel Bruce, Maria Ouspenskaya, Henry Travers) – Classic Movie Review 5,202

The 1939 romantic adventure film The Rains Came stars Tyrone Power as an Indian nobleman, trained as a doctor in America, who returns to India, where he dallies with English married woman (Myrna Loy). It […]

Mar, 26

The Son of Kong *** (1933, Robert Armstrong, Helen Mack, Frank Reicher, John Marston, Victor Wong, Lee Kohlmar, Ed Brady) – Classic Movie Review 4658

‘SEE! The cannibals! The earthquake! The sea serpent! The fighting monsters of ages past!’ It is irresistible, isn’t it? Probably the first monster movie sequel, it starts by announcing itself as ‘a serio-comic phantasy’. Producer Merian […]

Nov, 15

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