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These Thousand Hills *** (1959, Don Murray, Richard Egan, Lee Remick, Patricia Owens, Stuart Whitman, Albert Dekker) – Classic Movie Review 7799

Director Richard Fleischer’s punchy, intelligent 1958 Western These Thousand Hills is pumped full of admirable acting, robust action, cute romance and thoughtful drama, even if it fails to live up to the manic intensity of Pulitzer-prize […]

Nov, 17

The Wedding March ***** (1928, Erich von Stroheim, Fay Wray, Zasu Pitts) – Classic Movie Review 4227

Ring the bells for this exhilarating silent movie classic, wayward director Erich von Stroheim’s last masterpiece, beautifully restored in a shining new print. The director himself entertainingly over-acts as Prince Nickolas von Wildeliebe-Rauffenburg – Nikki […]

Aug, 24

Easter Parade ***** (1948, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Ann Miller, Peter Lawford) – Classic Movie Review 1116

Director Charles Walters’s beguiling, evergreen Irving Berlin musical Easter Parade was both Judy Garland and Fred Astaire’s most financially successful movie, as well as the highest-grossing musical of the year 1948. This film marked the […]

Apr, 19

Miracle on 34th Street ***** (1947, Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O’Hara, John Payne) – Classic Movie Review 508

In a fondly remembered performance that won him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar, a perfectly cast Edmund Gwenn is a twinkling miracle as merry old Kris Kringle in this delicious 1947 Christmas fantasy film about […]

Dec, 13

Animal House [National Lampoon’s Animal House] ***** (1978, John Belushi, Karen Allen, Tom Hulce, John Vernon, Tim Matheson, Stephen Furst, Verna Bloom) – Classic Movie Review 50

In 1978, the year of Eraserhead and The Deer Hunter, we were also laughing, thank goodness. Debut director John Landis’s outrageous teen comedy National Lampoon’s Animal House is extremely bold and hysterically funny. A landmark movie, […]

Jul, 14

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