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The Four Feathers **** (1929, Richard Arlen, Fay Wray, Clive Brook, William Powell) – Classic Movie Review 10,071
The Four Feathers (1929) is Paramount Pictures’s final all-silent movie, though with a synchronised score (by William F Peters) and a few sound effects. This silent film with added synchronised sound but no dialogue is […]
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 […]
On Dangerous Ground **** (1951, Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond) – Classic Movie Review 8189
Director Nicholas Ray’s distinguished 1951 film noir drama On Dangerous Ground stars Robert Ryan as brutal, obsessive city police detective Jim Wilson, who sees the error of his savage ways when he is sent upstate […]
Levity ** (2003, Billy Bob Thornton, Morgan Freeman, Holly Hunter, Kirsten Dunst) – Classic Movie Review 7673
Director Ed Solomon’s intelligent, well-made 2003 crime drama Levity finds Billy Bob Thornton working hard and effectively as Manuel Jordan, an ex-con looking for redemption after killing a teen while carrying out a robbery 20 […]
Only the Valiant *** (1951, Gregory Peck, Ward Bond, Gig Young, Lon Chaney Jr, Barbara Payton, Neville Brand, Jeff Corey, Warner Anderson, Steve Brodie) – Classic Movie Review 6952
‘THEY WERE SIX AND THEY FOUGHT LIKE SIX HUNDRED!’ Director Gordon Douglas’s 1950 Western is based on the 1943 novel by Charles Marquis Warren and is basically a dirty-half-dozen, with plenty of manly appeal. Gregory Peck […]
7 Men from Now [Seven Men from Now] **** (1956, Randolph Scott, Gail Russell, Lee Marvin) – Classic Movie Review 6431
In 1955, screenwriter Burt Kennedy wrote a screenplay entitled 7 Men from Now to be filmed by John Wayne’s Batjac Productions with Wayne as star and Budd Boetticher as director. But Wayne was committed to John Ford’s The Searchers and suggested his Republican friend Scott instead after Gary Cooper turned […]
Seven Pounds **** (2008, Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson, Michael Ealy, Barry Pepper, Elpidia Carrillo) – Classic Movie Review 4622
Will Smith plays Ben Thomas, a tax investigator – or actually does he? – in this beautifully crafted, luxurious 2008 epic weepie from Italian romantic expert Gabriele Muccino, the director of Smith’s 2006 hit The […]