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Lure of the Wilderness *** (1952, Jean Peters, Jeffrey Hunter, Constance Smith, Walter Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 8978

Jean Renoir’s 1941 black and white American début movie Swamp Water is remade here in director Jean Negulesco’s 1952 romantic adventure drama Lure of the Wilderness with the definite advantage of Edward Cronjager’s excellent Technicolor […]

Oct, 13

Swamp Water **** (1941, Walter Brennan, Walter Huston, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Virginia Gilmore, John Carradine, Eugene Pallette, Ward Bond) – Classic Movie Review 8976

Master French film-maker Jean Renoir’s 1941 American début Swamp Water [The Man Who Came Back], made while he was in wartime exile from German-occupied France, is an unusual, dramatic thriller, set in Georgia swamps, where […]

Oct, 12

Cross Creek **** (1983, Mary Steenburgen, Rip Torn, Peter Coyote, Dana Hill, Alfre Woodard) – Classic Movie Review 8691

Director Martin Ritt’s 1983 Cross Creek tells the story of a real-life writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of The Yearling, who in 1926 left her husband and home in the big city to start a […]

Jul, 10

Tammy and the Bachelor [Tammy] *** (1957, Debbie Reynolds, Walter Brennan, Leslie Nielsen, Mala Powers, Fay Wray, Sidney Blackmer, Mildred Natwick) – Classic Movie Review 5511

Debbie Reynolds (1932–2016) stars in the first, and by far the best of the four Tammy films, all loosely based on the stories by Cid Ricketts Sumner. Here the kind-hearted, plucky young riverboat heroine Tammy […]

May, 28

Southern Comfort **** (1981, Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward) – Classic Movie Review 5458

Director Walter Hill’s 1981 man’s man action thriller with Vietnam on its mind is one of this great director’s finest movies. In the screenplay by Hill, producer David Giler and Michael Kane, trigger-happy National Guardsmen […]

May, 15

In the Electric Mist *** (2009, Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, Peter Sarsgaard, Mary Steenburgen, Kelly Macdonald, Justina Machado, Ned Beatty, James Gammon) – Classic Movie Review 4624

Tommy Lee Jones is at his excellent haunted best in a tailor-made role as Dave Robicheaux, a Louisiana cop who finds a connection between the New Orleans murder of a prostitute and the discovery of […]

Nov, 09

Swamp Woman * (1941, Ann Corio, Jack La Rue, Mary Hull) – Classic Movie Review 3,980

‘She lived daringly, loved savagely’. The amusingly campy 1941 poverty row black and white thriller film Swamp Woman stars prominent burlesque striptease artist Ann Corio. Director Elmer Clifton’s 1941 black and white thriller film Swamp […]

Jul, 05

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