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Siege of Syracuse [L’Assedio di Siracusa] ** (1960, Rossano Brazzi, Tina Louise, Sylva Koscina, Enrico Maria Salerno, Gino Cervi) – Classic Movie Review 12,058

Director Pietro Francisci’s 1960 Italian historical drama film Siege of Syracuse [L’Assedio di Siracusa] stars Rossano Brazzi, Tina Louise, Sylva Koscina, Enrico Maria Salerno, and Gino Cervi. It focuses on the Roman Siege of Syracuse […]

Apr, 13

The Last Outpost *** (1935, Cary Grant, Claude Rains, Gertrude Michael) – Classic Movie Review 11,276

Directors Charles Barton and Louis J Gasnier’s 1935 Paramount Pictures black and white romantic action adventure film The Last Outpost stars Cary Grant, Claude Rains and Gertrude Michael. This forgotten film is one of Grant’s […]

Jun, 06

The Man from the Alamo *** (1953, Glenn Ford, Julie Adams, Chill Wills, Victor Jory, Hugh O’Brian) – Classic Movie Review 9,777

Budd Boetticher’s taut, fine looking 1953 Technicolor Western film The Man from the Alamo stars Glenn Ford as Battle of the Alamo sole survivor John Stroud, who sets out for revenge.  Director Budd Boetticher’s 1953 […]

May, 16

Johnny Reno ** (1966, Dana Andrews, Jane Russell, Lon Chaney Jr) – Classic Movie Review 9686

Director R G Springsteen’s humble 1966 American Western film Johnny Reno stars Dana Andrews, Jane Russell and Lon Chaney Jr. Made by A C Lyles Productions and released by Paramount Pictures, it is produced by […]

Apr, 28

The Long Night ** (1947, Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price, Ann Dvorak) – Classic Movie Review 7756

  Using the original screenplay by Jacques Viot as a basis, director Anatole Litvak remakes the 1939 Jean Gabin French classic Le Jour se Lève [Daybreak] to much lesser effect in his 1947 RKO black […]

Nov, 05

The Charge of the Light Brigade **** (1968, Trevor Howard, John Gielgud, David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Jill Bennett, Harry Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 4724

Director Tony Richardson’s last great film is a superb reworking of, as well as antidote to, the old romantic and heroic fictionalised Errol Flynn film The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), seen through the […]

Nov, 30

Resident Evil: Afterlife ***½ (2010, Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Wentworth Miller, Kim Coates, Shawn Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 3971

In that post-apocalyptic world known only to sci-fi writers and movie-makers, Milla Jovovich’s action babe Alice flies to Alaska and finds Ali Larter’s Claire Redfield, from Resident Evil: Extinction (2007). They fly to LA and […]

Jul, 04

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