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The Story of Dr Wassell ** (1944, Gary Cooper, Laraine Day, Signe Hasso, Dennis O’Keefe, Carol Thurston) – Classic Movie Review 11,356

The Story of Dr Wassell (1944): ‘Drama of Loyalty and Love! The Story the Whole World Has Heard About!’ The 1944 wartime action adventure drama Technicolor film The Story of Dr Wassell should have been […]

Jun, 29

The Devil at 4 O’Clock ** (1961, Spencer Tracy, Frank Sinatra, Kerwin Mathews) – Classic Movie Review 10,257

Producer-director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1961 Eastman Color adventure drama The Devil at 4 O’Clock is based on a novel by Max Catto and stars Spencer Tracy as hard-drinking priest Father Matthew Doonan, who enlists the reluctant […]

Sep, 02

The Edge of the World **** (1937, Niall MacGinnis, Belle Chrystall, John Laurie, Finlay Currie, Eric Berry ) – Classic Movie Review 7907

Writer-director Michael Powell puts heart and soul into The Edge of the World, his deeply felt and involving 1937 black and white film about life on Hirta, a bleak, remote Shetland Island, an Outer Hebridean […]

Dec, 15

Dunkirk ** (2017, Fionn Whitehead, Aneurin Barnard, Mark Rylance, Tom Glynn-Carney, Tom Hardy, Kenneth Branagh, James D’Arcy, Cillian Murphy, Harry Styles) – Movie Review

Writer-director Christopher Nolan retells the World War Two Dunkirk story at this weird and unhappy point in Britain’s history with Europe. Why? It’s a mystery. He’s never dabbled in history before, and he provides no clues […]

Jul, 21

Battle Circus ** (1953, Humphrey Bogart, June Allyson, Keenan Wynn, Robert Keith) – Classic Movie Review 4272

Humphrey Bogart and June Allyson seem to be ideally cast as Major Jed Webbe, a cynical, boozy army major surgeon, and Lieutenant Ruth McGara, an idealistic, altruistic nurse, who fall in love while working in a […]

Aug, 31

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