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Black Gold * (1962, Philip Carey, Diane McBain, James Best, Fay Spain, Claude Akins, William Phipps) – Classic Movie Review 11,825

Director Leslie H Martinson’s 1962 black and white adventure film Black Gold stars Philip Carey, Diane McBain, James Best, Fay Spain, Claude Akins and William Phipps, and is based on a story by Harry Whittington. […]

Jan, 04

The Farmer Takes a Wife *** (1935, Janet Gaynor, Henry Fonda, Charles Bickford) – Classic Movie Review 10,667

Director Victor Fleming’s sweet 1935 1820s-set romance The Farmer Takes a Wife stars Henry Fonda,  who impresses in his film début (already 30) as the nice farmer Dan Harrow, who courts bargee’s cute housekeeper Molly […]

Dec, 14

Anne of Green Gables *** (1934, Anne Shirley, Tom Brown, O P Heggie, Helen Westley) – Classic Movie Review 10,479

‘FICTION’S MOST BELOVED HEROINE REALLY LIVES!’ Director George Nichols Jr’s 1934 RKO Radio Pictures black and white drama Anne of Green Gables is a lovely adaptation of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s children’s classic about an imaginative […]

Oct, 29

Way Down East ** (1935, Rochelle Hudson, Henry Fonda, Slim Summerville) – Classic Movie Review 10,380

Director Henry King’s 1935 Way Down East is a mostly dull and soppy Fox Studio sound version remake of D W Griffith’s famous 1920 silent melodrama Way Down East about a done-wrong-by young woman called […]

Oct, 04

Juke Girl ** (1942, Ann Sheridan, Ronald Reagan, Richard Whorf) – Classic Movie Review 10,069

Director Curtis Bernhardt’s 1942 black and white mystery crime thriller Juke Girl stars Ann Sheridan and Ronald Reagan, supposedly the first choices to do Casablanca, are Lola Mears and Steve Talbot, migrant fruit and veg […]

Jul, 21

Showdown at Abilene ** (1956, Jock Mahoney, Lyle Bettger, Martha Hyer) – Classic Movie Review 9696

The 1956 Western film Showdown at Abilene provides a fair level of entertainment, in which presumed dead Civil War soldier Jim Trask (Jock Mahoney) comes home to Abilene, Kansas, where he had been sheriff, to […]

May, 01

Devil’s Doorway ** (1950, Robert Taylor, Louis Calhern, Paula Raymond, Marshall Thompson, James Mitchell, Edgar Buchanan) – Classic Movie Review 8998

The 1950 film Devil’s Doorway is a downbeat and unpersuasive Western, but worth a look for Anthony Mann’s pacey direction, John Alton’s impressive black and white camerawork and the strong action finish. Paleface Robert Taylor […]

Oct, 20

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