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Dante’s Inferno *** (1935, Spencer Tracy, Claire Trevor, Henry B Walthall, Alan Dinehart, Scotty Beckett) – Classic Movie Review 11,062

‘A Startling Drama of Today… and Forever! Timely as Today’s News… Eternal With its Challenging Truths!’ Director Harry Lachman’s 1935 drama Dante’s Inferno is one of Hollywood’s more bizarre efforts, in which Spencer Tracy stars […]

Mar, 31

One Foot in Hell *** (1960, Alan Ladd, Dan O’Herlihy, Don Murray, Dolores Michaels) – Classic Movie Review 10,101

Director James B Clark’s odd, interesting, often quite compelling 1960 revenge Western film One Foot in Hell stars a well-cast Alan Ladd as the bitter Mitch Barrett taking it out on the Arizona small town […]

Jul, 29

Doctor Faustus ** (1967, Richard Burton, Andreas Teuber, Elizabeth Taylor ) – Classic Movie Review 9884

In the 1967 film Doctor Faustus, Richard Burton records his intense and honourable 1966 stage performance at the Oxford Playhouse with the student actors of the Oxford University Drama Society (OUDS) of Christopher Marlowe’s 16th-century […]

Jun, 09

Motel Hell ** (1980, Rory Calhoun, Paul Linke, Nancy Parsons) – Classic Movie Review 8745

Rory Calhoun stars as an extremely creepy old man called Farmer Vincent Smith, who runs the Motel Hello with his sister Ida (Nancy Parsons), and sells meat that originates with the customers – unsuspecting kidnapped […]

Jul, 22

The Frighteners *** (1996, Michael J Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson) – Classic Movie Review 8418

Director Peter Jackson’s 1996 supernatural black comedy horror thriller The Frighteners, in the style of Beetlejuice complete with a Danny Elfman score, is poundingly pacey, reasonably scary and original enough, but, when the brilliant special […]

May, 01

Hellboy *** (2019, David Harbour, Milla Jovovich, Ian McShane, Daniel Dae Kim) – Movie Review

Director Neil Marshall’s 2019 Hellboy is trashy but lusty, with plenty of guts and gore. Caught between supernatural and human worlds, the part-demon Hellboy re-connects with his human dad Professor Broom (and Ian McShane) and […]

Apr, 13

Cabin in the Sky **** (1943, Ethel Waters, Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson, Lena Horne) – Classic Movie Review 8315

The MGM studio assigned musicals specialist Vincente Minnelli to Cabin in the Sky, the 1943 film of the then rare all-black cast musical, retelling the Faust legend, in which God (Kenneth Spencer as The General […]

Mar, 31

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