Tag: Technicolor
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Jesse James vs the Daltons ** (1953, Brett King, Barbara Lawrence, James Griffiths, William Phipps, John Cliff) – Classic Movie Review 12,194
‘THE LAST BRAWLING DAYS OF THE LAWLESS WEST in 3D.’ Director William Castle’s 1953 Western film Jesse James vs the Daltons is a none-too-thrilling but professional and just about tolerable 3D and Technicolor Western, in which the infamous Dalton Gang (James Griffith, William Phipps, John Cliff) join battle with someone alleging that he is the…
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Never Say Goodbye ** (1956, Rock Hudson, Cornell Borchers, George Sanders, Ray Collins, David Janssen, Shelley Fabares) – Classic Movie Review 11,640
Director Jerry Hopper’s 1956 American Technicolor comedy-drama romance film Never Say Goodbye stars Rock Hudson as a surgeon called Dr Mike Parker, who operates on Lisa Gosting (Cornell Borchers), the Viennese wife he walked out on 10 years previously and asks her to return to him, but Suzy Parker (Shelley Fabares), the daughter he has…
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Guns of the Timberland ** (1960, Alan Ladd, Jeanne Crain, Gilbert Roland, Frankie Avalon) – Classic Movie Review 7722
Director Robert D Webb’s 1960 Western adventure Guns of the Timberland is based on Louis L’Amour’s 1955 novel, which sold more than a million copies, and stars Alan Ladd, Jeanne Crain, Gilbert Roland, Frankie Avalon, Lyle Bettger, Noah Beery Jr and Regis Toomey. Loggers are at loggerheads with ranchers who do not want their trees chopped down into…
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My Dream Is Yours *** (1949, Jack Carson, Doris Day, Lee Bowman, Adolphe Menjou, Eve Arden, S Z Sakall) – Classic Movie Review 7688
Director Michael Curtiz’s 1949 musical comedy My Dream Is Yours finds Doris Day on vivacious form as single mother Martha Gibson, a band singer struggling to become a radio star, and Jack Carson bright and breezy as Doug Blake, a talent scout out to help her in her quest for fame and replace conceited singer Gary Mitchell (Lee…
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Ebb Tide *** (1937, Oskar Homolka, Frances Farmer, Ray Milland, Barry Fitzgerald, Lloyd Nolan) – Classic Movie Review 7225
Director James Hogan’s 1937 Paramount Pictures adventure Ebb Tide is a robust but downbeat drama about three boozy sailor adventurers (Ray Milland as Robert Herrick, Oscar Homolka as captain Robert Herrick and Barry Fitzgerald as Huish), who are hit by a typhoon and hove up on a mystery island, where they fight over religious madman Attwater (Lloyd Nolan)’s stash of pearls.…
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Davy ** (1958, Harry Secombe, Ron Randell, Alexander Knox, Susan Shaw, George Relph, Bill Owen) – Classic Movie Review 7089
Director Michael Relph draws the bitter-sweet short straw of making Ealing Studios’ last comedy, the 1957 Davy, which is engaging enough but rather a sad affair. Harry Secombe stars as a young music-hall singing star entertainer called Davy Morgan (Secombe), one of The Mad Morgans comic team, who weighs the chance of opera stardom with…
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The Watcher in the Woods ** (1980, Bette Davis, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Kyle Richards, Carroll Baker, David McCallum, Benedict Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 6180
John Hough directs this intriguing and harmless but flaccid, predictable and listless 1980 Walt Disney Productions chiller, a family horror mystery, nicely shot in Technicolor. With Brian Clemens, Rosemary Anne Sisson and Harry Spalding’s screenplay based on Florence Engel Randall’s 1976 novel A Watcher in the Woods, the usual weird occurrences are taking place in an…