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King of the Khyber Rifles *** (1953, Tyrone Power, Terry Moore, Michael Rennie) – Classic Movie Review 12,095

The attractive and popular 1953 adventure film King of the Khyber Rifles stars Tyrone Power and Terry Moore. It was one of the first shot in Technicolor and CinemaScope. Director Henry King’s attractive and popular […]

May, 02

Hotel Imperial *** (1927, Pola Negri, James Hall, George Siegmann) – Classic Movie Review 10,958

‘Pola Negri loving, hating, fighting, running the gamut of every conceivable human emotion. Never has she given such full play to her genius.’ Director Mauritz Stiller’s 1927 American silent film Hotel Imperial is an impressive […]

Feb, 24

Colonel Redl [Oberst Redl] **** (1985, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Hans Christian Blech, Armin Mueller-Stahl) – Classic Movie Review 9344

Hungarian director István Szabó’s 1985 Colonel Redl [Oberst Redl] [Redl Ezredes] is a startlingly powerful film of a subject already familiar from John Osborne’s stage play A Patriot for Me, with a clever screenplay based […]

Feb, 03

Anatahan [The Saga of Anatahan] **** (1953, Akemi Negishi, Tadashi Suganuma, Kisaburo Sawamura) – Classic Movie Review 8926

Director Josef von Sternberg ended his maverick career in style, directing the 1953 Anatahan [The Saga of Anatahan], an astonishing, action-packed, exciting wartime adventure thriller tale of destructive passions. Anatahan [The Saga of Anatahan] is […]

Sep, 21

The Deep Blue Sea *** (1955, Vivien Leigh, Kenneth More, Eric Portman, Emlyn Williams) – Classic Movie Review 8760

Director Anatole Litvak’s 1955 romantic drama The Deep Blue Sea is a stage-bound but generally successful and involving version of the Terence Rattigan play about the romance of a carefree, drunken wartime RAF fighter pilot […]

Jul, 26

The Queen’s Guards ** (1961, Daniel Massey, Raymond Massey, Robert Stephens, Ursula Jeans) – Classic Movie Review 7961

Director Michael Powell handles this 1961 British film The Queen’s Guards as a dull, flag-waving tale of two generations of The Queen’s Grenadier Guards, old Captain Fellowes and young John Fellowes (Raymond Massey and Daniel […]

Dec, 30

Play Dirty **** (1969, Michael Caine, Nigel Davenport, Nigel Green, Harry Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 6838

Director André de Toth’s last movie is Play Dirty from 1969 and it stars Michael Caine as the British captain in charge of a gang of ex-con soldiers who must obliterate Nazi oil supplies deep […]

Mar, 21

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