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The Package *** (1989, Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy, Tommy Lee Jones, John Heard, Dennis Franz, Reni Santoni, Pam Grier) – Classic Movie Review 11,210

Director Andrew Davis’s 1989 thriller The Package stars Gene Hackman as Green Beret Sergeant Johnny Gallagher, who has to deliver a package – a psychotic court-martialled serviceman, Airborne Ranger Thomas Boyette (Tommy Lee Jones) – […]

May, 15

Battleground **** (1949, Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, James Whitmore, Marshall Thompson, Scotty Beckett) – Classic Movie Review 6714

Director William Wellman’s important and distinguished, if necessarily grim 1949 iconic war movie won Oscars for its screenplay by Robert Pirosh, who was involved in the actual Battle of the Bulge, and for Paul C […]

Feb, 21

The Music Man **** (1962, Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett) – Classic Movie Review 6516

Producer-director Morton DaCosta’s rousing 1962 film version of the delicious all-time-great hit musical is a stupendous showcase for the talents of the much missed Robert Preston, who always performed with the force of 76 trombones. It […]

Jan, 03

In Harm’s Way *** (1965, John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal, Tom Tyron, Paula Prentiss, Henry Fonda, Brandon de Wilde, Jill Haworth, Dana Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 5922

Director Otto Preminger’s bumpy, but ambitious and sometimes exciting big-name 1965 naval drama set against a background of the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service’s sudden surprise military attack on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the […]

Aug, 16

The Wildcats of St Trinian’s * (1980, Sheila Hancock, Michael Hordern, Joe Melia, Thorley Walters, Rodney Bewes, Maureen Lipman, Julia McKenzie) – Classic Movie Review 5743

Writer-director Frank Launder revived Ronald Searle’s anarchic St Trinian’s schoolgirls for a fifth movie after a 14-year gap in this 1980 British comedy, and seemed to forget to put in the laughs. Launder’s original screenplay […]

Jul, 10

Desperate Journey *** (1942, Errol Flynn, Alan Hale Sr, Ronald Reagan, Nancy Coleman, Raymond Massey, Arthur Kennedy, Ronald Sinclair, Albert Bassermann, Sig Ruman) Classic Movie Review 4782

Director Raoul Walsh’s 1942 wartime action adventure movie tells an amusing shaggy dog story about five guys on a bombing mission shot down in Germany and trying to get back to England with vital information […]

Dec, 10

The Dawn Patrol **** (1938, Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, David Niven, Morton Lowry, Melville Cooper, Donald Crisp, Barry Fitzgerald) – Classic Movie Review 4747

Director Edmund Goulding’s sterling if penny-pinching 1938 remake of Howard Hawks’s 1930 movie The Dawn Patrol ingeniously includes some of the great dogfight footage and munitions depot explosion sequences that distinguished the first version, as […]

Dec, 04

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