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Lure of the Wilderness *** (1952, Jean Peters, Jeffrey Hunter, Constance Smith, Walter Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 8978

Jean Renoir’s 1941 black and white American début movie Swamp Water is remade here in director Jean Negulesco’s 1952 romantic adventure drama Lure of the Wilderness with the definite advantage of Edward Cronjager’s excellent Technicolor […]

Oct, 13

Swamp Water **** (1941, Walter Brennan, Walter Huston, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Virginia Gilmore, John Carradine, Eugene Pallette, Ward Bond) – Classic Movie Review 8976

Master French film-maker Jean Renoir’s 1941 American début Swamp Water [The Man Who Came Back], made while he was in wartime exile from German-occupied France, is an unusual, dramatic thriller, set in Georgia swamps, where […]

Oct, 12

The Member of the Wedding **** (1952, Ethel Waters, Julie Harris, Brandon De Wilde) – Classic Movie Review 5919

Director Fred Zinnemann makes a superb job of his stage-to-screen 1952 movie of Carson McCullers’s lovely play and novel The Member of the Wedding about the rites of passage of a tomboyish young girl called […]

Aug, 15

Hurry Sundown * (1967, Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Diahann Carroll, Robert Hooks, Faye Dunaway, Burgess Meredith, George Kennedy, Rex Ingram) – Classic Movie Review 5724

Producer-director Otto Preminger’s well meaning but lurid and clichéd 1967 movie tells the tale of passion and racial discontent in a Georgia town just after the Second World War, as written by Thomas C Ryan and […]

Jul, 07

Tangerines [Mandariinid] **** (2013, Lembit Ulfsak, Elmo Nüganen, Giorgi Nakashidze) – Movie Review

Lembit Ulfsak is extraordinary as elderly Estonian man Ivo, who has stayed behind with his buddy Marcus to harvest his crop of tangerines in evacuated, war-torn in Georgia, Apkhazeti region, in 1990. Apkhazians are fighting to break […]

Sep, 20

The Neon Bible **** (1995, Jacob Tierney, Gena Rowlands, Diana Scarwid, Denis Leary, Frances Conroy) – Classic Movie Review 2,875

Terence Davies’s 1995 British drama film The Neon Bible tells the enchanting story of a 15-year-old boy, David (Jacob Tierney), growing up in Georgia in the Forties, whose life is troubled by his over-bearing parents […]

Sep, 03

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil **½ (1997, Kevin Spacey, John Cusack, Jude Law) – Classic Movie Review 1330

Director Clint Eastwood’s 1997 thriller stars Kevin Spacey, who impresses mightily as Jim Williams, an antiques dealer who shoots dead his employee Billy Hanson (Jude Law) and is on trial for murder. Williams is a self-made millionaire, art collector, […]

Jun, 15

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