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The Bride and the Beast [Queen of the Gorillas] * (1958, Charlotte Austin, Lance Fuller, Johnny Roth, William Justine, Gil Frye, Jeanne Gerson, Steve Calvert) – Classic Movie Review 4218

Charlotte Austin stars as The Bride who turns her attentions away from her explorer groom (Lance Fuller) to The Beast – his gorilla – in director Adrian Weiss’s incoherent, awesomely terrible 1958 chiller. Under hypnosis, she […]

Aug, 22

The Jungle Book **** (2016, Neel Sethi, voices of Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, Christopher Walken, Idris Elba, Garry Shandling, Scarlett Johansson) – Movie Review

Little Neel Sethi is ideal as the man-cub Mowgli who flees the jungle after a death threat from the tiger Shere Khan. Guided by Ben Kingsley and Bill Murray provide the excellent key voices of Bagheera the panther and the bear […]

Apr, 13

The Saint in New York *** (1938, Louis Hayward, Kay Sutton, Sig Ruman, Jonathan Hale) – Classic Movie Review 3221

‘You’d think someone with the name Violet Throckmorton would have enough trouble in life without you adding to it!’ Director Ben Holmes’s 1938 crime thriller The Saint in New York is the first of eight […]

Jan, 03

Tales That Witness Madness ** (1973, Donald Pleasence, Jack Hawkins, Georgia Brown, Donald Houston, Russell Lewis, David Wood, Suzy Kendall, Peter McEnery, Joan Collins, Michael Jayston, Kim Novak) – Classic Movie Review 3113

‘It happens beyond madness – where your mind won’t believe what your eyes see.’ The follow-up to Vault of Horror (1973), director Freddie Francis’s 1973 all-star British horror movie is a shaky Amicus portmanteau film […]

Nov, 29

The Jungle Book ***** (1967, voices of Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, George Sanders, Louis Prima, Sterling Holloway, J Pat O’Malley, Verna Felton, Bruce Reitherman) – Classic Movie Review 2405

Director Wolfgang Reitherman’s tremendous 1967 Walt Disney Productions animated film, inspired by Rudyard Kipling’s children’s classic book of Mowgli stories, is nothing short of a magical experience. It is the 19th animated feature in the Walt Disney […]

Apr, 18

The Jungle Book 2 ** (2003, voices of John Goodman, Haley Joel Osment, Mae Whitman, Phil Collins, Tony Jay) – Classic Movie Review 2404

Indian boy Mowgli (voice of Haley Joel Osment), raised with the wolves, is torn between his jungle pals and life with his new friend Shanti (voice of Mae Whitman). Director Steve Trenbirth’s 2003 animated feature […]

Apr, 18

Jungle Book **** (1994, Jason Scott Lee, Cary Elwes, Lena Headey) – Classic Movie Review 2403

Director Stephen Sommers’s 1994 family adventure sees the Walt Disney Studio remaking its own beloved 1967 cartoon in a sleek, superbly realised live-action movie. Based on Rudyard Kipling’s children’s classic, it is well pitched between a […]

Apr, 18

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