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The Picasso Summer ** (1969, Albert Finney, Yvette Mimieux, Luis Miguel Dominguín) – Classic Movie Review 10,038

The weird and intriguing 1969 drama film The Picasso Summer is written by Ray Bradbury, based on his 1957 short story In a Season of Calm Weather, and stars Albert Finney and Yvette Mimieux. Serge […]

Jul, 15

Jamaica Run ** (1953, Ray Milland, Arlene Dahl, Wendell Corey, Patric Knowles) – Classic Movie Review 9169

Mayhem and murder ensue when there are six rivals for a family estate in writer-director Lewis R Foster’s routine, production-line 1953 Caribbean ocean-going mystery action thriller Jamaica Run. Ray Milland stars as schooner captain Patrick […]

Dec, 18

The Alligator People *** (1959, George Macready, Beverly Garland, Lon Chaney Jr, Richard Crane, Frieda Inescort, Bruce Bennett) – Classic Movie Review 7166

Director Roy Del Ruth’s fondly regarded 1959 horror movie stars George Macready as Dr Mark Sinclair, a Louisiana bayou doctor who gives as a treatment a reptile serum that is supposed to let his patients […]

Jun, 14

My Girl 2 * (1994, Anna Chlumsky, Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Richard Masur, Christine Ebersole, Austin O’Brien) – Classic Movie Review 5775

Returning director Howard Zieff’s 1994 comedy is the struggling and none too welcome sequel to My Girl (1991), with Anna Chlumsky, Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis and Richard Masur all returning from the original. It […]

Jul, 20

The Pledge **** (2001, Jack Nicholson, Robin Wright Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Patricia Clarkson, Aaron Eckhart, Vanessa Redgrave, Michael O’Keefe, Mickey Rourke) – Classic Movie Review 4362

Jack Nicholson gives his best display of serious acting for years as Jerry Black, a Nevada police chief on the brink of retirement, who pledges to the mother that he will find the killer of […]

Sep, 13

Circus World [The Magnificent Showman] *** (1964, John Wayne, Rita Hayworth, Claudia Cardinale, John Smith, Lloyd Nolan, Richard Conte) – Classic Movie Review 4295

The Western meets the circus in director Henry Hathaway’s enjoyable old-style 1964 adventure movie, with John Wayne enjoying himself in a ripe and rich turn as circus owner Matt Masters leading a Wild West show through […]

Sep, 03

Arabian Nights [Il fiore delle mille e una notte] **** (1974, Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Franco Merli, Ines Pellegrini) – Classic Movie Review 3202

Co-writer/director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1974 movie is the third and finest of his Trilogy of Life movies of mediaeval stories after The Decameron (1971) and The Canterbury Tales (1972), in which tales from Thousand and […]

Dec, 31

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