Recent Posts
- Alex Strangelove *** (2018, Daniel Doheny, Antonio Marziale, Madeline Weinstein) – Classic Movie Review 12,855
- Viharsarok [Land of Storms] *** (2014, András Sütö, Ádám Varga, Sebastian Urzendowsky) – Classic Movie Review 12,854
- The Normal Heart **** (2014, Mark Ruffalo, Matt Bomer, Taylor Kitsch, Jim Parsons, Alfred Molina, Joe Mantello, Jonathan Groff, Julia Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 12,853
- Concrete Night [Betoniyö] *** (2013, Johannes Brotherus, Jari Virman, Anneli Karppinen, Juhan Ulfsak) – Classic Movie Review 12,852
- The Snorkel *** (1958, Peter Van Eyck, Betta St John, Mandy Miller, William Franklyn, Grégoire Aslan) – Classic Movie Review 12,851
- The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe [Robinson Crusoe] **** (1954, Dan O’Herlihy, Jaime Fernández) – Classic Movie Review 12,850
- The Cat from Outer Space ** (1978, Ken Berry, Sandy Duncan, Roddy McDowall, Harry Morgan, McLean Stevenson) 2024 – Classic Movie Review 12,849
- The Fall of the House of Usher * (1950, Gwen Watford, Kay Tendeter) – Classic Movie Review 12,848
- Disappearance ** (2002, Harry Hamlin, Susan Dey) – Classic Movie Review 12,847
- For Them That Trespass *½ (1949, Richard Todd, Patricia Plunkett, Stephen Murray) – Classic Movie Review 12,846
Posts Tagged "jewel"
Check out all of the posts tagged with "jewel".
The New Adventures of Tarzan ** (1935, Bruce Bennett, Ula Holt, Frank Baker) – Classic Movie Review 8087
Director Edward A Kull’s 1935 feature film The New Adventures of Tarzan stars Bruce Bennett [aka Herman Brix back then], who is the way more than adequate gentleman vine-swinger in this much better than just […]
Rough Cut ** (1980, Burt Reynolds, Lesley-Anne Down, David Niven) – Classic Movie Review 6787
Director Don Siegel’s 1980 penultimate movie stars Burt Reynolds as twinkling, sophisticated jewel thief Jack Rhodes, with one eye on the jewels and the other on the ladies. Reynolds is rightly compared to Cary Grant, […]
Son of Ali Baba *** (1952, Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie, Susan Cabot, Victor Jory, Hugh O’Brian, William Reynolds, Morris Ankrum) – Classic Movie Review 4541
Director Kurt Neumann’s 1952 cutely escapist adventure stars the young and handsome pair Tony Curtis and Piper Laurie (re-teamed after their 1951 The Prince Who Was a Thief was a hit), who whizz us off to old Bagdad […]
Danger: Diabolik **** (1967, John Phillip Law, Marisa Mell, Michel Piccoli, Adolfo Celi, Terry-Thomas) – Classic Movie Review 3,528
Mario Bava’s bravura 1967 live-action comic film Danger: Diabolik stars the engaging John Phillip Law as black-clad master thief Diabolik, and rattles along from one hairy adventure to the next. It is a triumph of […]
The Ghoul *** (1933, Boris Karloff, Ernest Thesiger, Ralph Richardson, Kathleen Harrison, Cedric Hardwicke) – Classic Movie Review 2905
Director T Hayes Hunter’s 1933 horror movie The Ghoul finds Boris Karloff returning in triumph to Britain after Frankenstein (1931) turned him into a star in Hollywood. He gives a rousing turn as the misguided […]
Satan Met a Lady *** (1936, Bette Davis, Warren William, Alison Skipworth, Marie Wilson, Arthur Treacher, Winifred Shaw, Porter Hall) – Classic Movie Review 2466
When Warner Bros tried to re-release its pre-Code 1931 film of The Maltese Falcon early in 1936, the Production Code Office was censoring movies and it refused approval due to the film’s supposedly ‘lewd’ content. So, with censorship […]
Ride with the Devil **** (1999, Tobey Maguire, Skeet Ulrich) – Classic Movie Review 1325
Director Ang Lee’s splendid 1999 American Civil War Western flopped at the box office but it is a near-masterpiece with great ambition, scope and visual sweep. Tobey Maguire and Skeet Ulrich star as Missouri boys Jake […]