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Posts Tagged "Ku Klux Klan"

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BlacKkKlansman **** (2018, John David Washington, Adam Driver, Laura Harrier, Topher Grace) – Movie Review

BlacKkKlansman is provocative, powerful, damning, and real scary. Spike Lee is on best fighting form, making his 70s-set story relevant, delivered with a mastery of film-making skills. Director Spike Lee’s 2018 BlacKkKlansman is provocative, powerful, […]

Aug, 21

Storm Warning *** (1951, Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day, Steve Cochran) – Classic Movie Review 7,302

Ginger Rogers stands up to the Ku Klux Klan as only she can, with Doris Day as her sister, in the 1951 film noir Storm Warning. Ronald Reagan plays a do-gooding District Attorney. Director Stuart […]

Jul, 17

The FBI Story ***½ (1959, James Stewart, Vera Miles, Murray Hamilton) – Classic Movie Review 6,658

The 1959 thriller film The FBI Story stars James Stewart as Federal Bureau of Investigation agent Chip Hardesty. The FBI controlled every move and the production had J Edgar Hoover breathing down their neck constantly. […]

Feb, 07

Black Legion ***½ (1937, Humphrey Bogart, Erin O’Brien Moore, Dick Foran, Ann Sheridan, Robert Barrat, John Litel) – Classic Movie Review 5,064

The brave, nifty and ever relevant 1937 social drama film Black Legion stars Humphrey Bogart as a car factory worker persuaded into joining a secretive, industrial Ku Klux Klan-style racist sect. Director Archie Mayo’s brave, […]

Feb, 26

Django **** (1966, Franco Nero, Loredana Nusciak, José Bódalo, Ángel Álvarez, José Canalejas) – Classic Movie Review 4926

Co-writer/ director Sergio Corbucci’s 1966 key Spaghetti Western Django stars Franco Nero as the iconic flinty-eyed Django, a coffin-dragging gunslinger who starts off by rescuing half-breed prostitute Maria (Loredana Nusciak) from Mexican bandits. He then sniffs opportunity […]

Jan, 23

The Birth of a Nation ***** (1915, Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Donald Crisp, Ralph Lewis) – Classic Movie Review 3782

Producer-writer-director D W Griffith’s racist 1915 silent movie landmark tale of two families during and after the American Civil War is the American cinema’s first epic and it can still exert a strong hold on […]

May, 29

A Time to Kill *** (1996, Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Samuel L Jackson, Donald Sutherland, Kevin Spacey) – Classic Film Review 1015

Based on the John Grisham bestselling legal thriller novel, director Joel Schumacher’s 1996 movie is an acceptable, quite enjoyable but rather tepid and vaguely botched racially-aware legal thriller. In Mississippi, an African American father Carl Lee […]

Mar, 29

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