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The Fireball ** (1950, Mickey Rooney, Pat O’Brien, Beverly Tyler, Ralph Dumke, Milburn Stone, Marilyn Monroe) – Classic Movie Review 7599

‘Rooney Runs Riot on the Roller Raceways!’ Director Tay Garnett’s 1950 The Fireball stars Mickey Rooney as orphan Johnny Casar, who flees from Father O’Hara (Pat O’Brien)’s orphanage school, becomes a champion star on roller skates, […]

Sep, 20

The Walking Stick ** (1970, David Hemmings, Samantha Eggar, Phyllis Calvert, Ferdy Mayne, Francesca Annis, Bridget Turner, Emlyn Williams, Dudley Sutton) – Classic Movie Review 7585

Director Eric Till’s 1970 British movie The Walking Stick is an only middling suspense thriller. But there is very decent playing by David Hemmings as a handsome, smooth London crook called Leigh Hartley and Samantha […]

Sep, 17

Sister Kenny *** (1946, Rosalind Russell, Alexander Knox, Dean Jagger, Philip Merivale, Beulah Bondi) – Classic Movie Review 7262

A well cast Rosalind Russell was Oscar nominated for her dedicated acting as Sister Elizabeth Kenny in director Dudley Nichols’s stirring 1946 biopic based on Mary Kenny’s own story And They Shall Walk (written with Martha […]

Jul, 07

Breathe ** (2017, Andrew Garfield, Claire Foy, Tom Hollander, Hugh Bonneville, Ed Speleers, Diana Rigg) – Movie Review

Actor Andy Serkis’s directorial debut is a surprisingly traditional and conventional biopic film. It is also straightforward, plain and sentimental, just when something rigorous and offbeat, even experimental, is required. It is very honorable, very English […]

Oct, 04

Night Flight *** (1933, John Barrymore, Helen Hayes, Lionel Barrymore, Clark Gable, Robert Montgomery, Myrna Loy) – Classic Movie Review 6043

When there is an outbreak of polio in Rio de Janeiro, pilots offer to risk their lives in bad weather to fly the medicine over the dangerous Andes mountains. John Barrymore stars as Riviere, who […]

Sep, 24

Jungle Jim *** (1948, Johnny Weissmuller, Virginia Grey, George Reeves) – Classic Movie Review 5734

Johnny Weissmuller, who had retired after 16 years as the screen’s most famous Tarzan, stars in the first low-budget adventure in Columbia Pictures’ 16-film Jungle Jim series (1948-55). Weissmuller’s Jungle Jim sets off with scientist Hilary […]

Jul, 09

Interrupted Melody **** (1955, Glenn Ford, Eleanor Parker, Roger Moore, Cecil Kellaway) – Classic Movie Review 495

Oscar nominated Eleanor Parker gives a most touching performance in one of the highpoints of her career as real-life Australian opera diva Marjorie Lawrence who, after her debut at the Paris Opera and at the […]

Dec, 10

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