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The Bamboo Prison ** (1954, Robert Francis, Brian Keith, E G Marshall, Jerome Courtland, Dianne Foster) – Classic Movie Review 11,736

Director Lewis Seiler’s 1954 Columbia Pictures black and white film The Bamboo Prison stars Robert Francis, Brian Keith, E G Marshall, Jerome Courtland, and Dianne Foster. A good cast kicks some oomph into a below-par, […]

Nov, 20

Missing in Action ** (1984, Chuck Norris, M Emmet Walsh, David Tress) – Classic Movie Review 10,312

Director Joseph Zito’s 1984 Missing in Action stars Chuck Norris, who chucks himself back into Asian action as Vietnam vet Colonel James Braddock to find men missing in action. Norris is supposed to be an […]

Sep, 16

Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious ** (1965, Alec Guinness, Mike Connors, Robert Redford) – Classic Movie Review 9945

The 1965 US-German co-production black and white comedy Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious is based on actor Robert Shaw’s novel The Hiding and is produced and directed by Gottfried Reinhardt, the son of the […]

Jun, 21

Danger Within [Breakout] *** (1959, Richard Todd, Bernard Lee, Michael Wilding, Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Donald Houston, Peter Arne) – Classic Movie Review 8939

Director Don Chaffey’s 1959 British in black and white war movie drama Danger Within [Breakout] is old-fashioned (even in 1959) but still involving stuff, boosted by the reliably strong playing from stiff-lipped stalwarts Richard Todd, […]

Sep, 25

The Purple Heart *** (1944, Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, Farley Granger) – Classic Movie Review 8886

That noble director of war movies Lewis Milestone gave us All Quiet On The Western Front, A Walk In The Sun, Halls of Montezuma and also this World War Two look at the plight of […]

Sep, 08

Back Door to Hell ** (1964, Jimmie Rodgers, Jack Nicholson, John Hackett) – Classic Movie Review 7847

The 1964 black and white movie Back Door to Hell is a youthful partnership of director Monte Hellman and star Jack Nicholson in a war film about a World War Two Philippines reconnaissance mission by […]

Nov, 27

Dark Journey **** (1937, Conrad Veidt, Vivien Leigh, Joan Gardner, Anthony Bushell, Ursula Jeans, Eliot Makeham, Austin Trevor) – Classic Movie Review 7806

Sparkling performances from the sleek and sexy team of Vivien Leigh and Conrad Veidt light up producer-director Victor Saville’s 1937 thriller Dark Journey [The Anxious Years], an involvingly dark and complex British espionage movie set […]

Nov, 19

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