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Tarzan’s Peril ** (1951, Lex Barker, Virginia Huston, George Macready) – Classic Movie Review 8042

Director Byron Haskin and Phil Brandon’s 1951 Tarzan’s Peril stars the 6’4″ blond, virile Lex Barker as the vine-swinging hero in this busy and amusing RKO jungle action adventure, whose biggest peril is the daft […]

Jan, 21

Castle on the Hudson [Years Without Days] ** (1940, John Garfield, Ann Sheridan, Pat O’Brien, Burgess Meredith, Henry O’Neill, Jerome Cowan) – Classic Movie Review 8022

John Garfield enjoys an acting field day as mobster Tommy Gordon, the gem-crook gangster who refuses to participate in a Sing Sing prison break because it is his unlucky day, in director Anatole Litvak’s 1940 […]

Jan, 16

Variety [Varieté] **** (1925, Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Lya De Putti) – Classic Movie Review 7642

Director Ewald André Dupont’s 1925 Variety [aka Varieté, or Jealousy or Vaudeville] is an exciting German classic silent melodrama of fierily aroused passion, with an impressive silent movie performance by Emil Jannings as angry, betrayed trapeze artist […]

Oct, 07

20,000 Years in Sing Sing *** (1932, Spencer Tracy, Bette Davis, Arthur Byron, Louis Calhern) – Classic Movie Review 7440

Director Michael Curtiz’s excellent, tough-edged, vintage 1933 prison escape drama 20,000 Years in Sing Sing sees Spencer Tracy and Bette Davis crackle in their only ever screen pairing. Tracy was at Fox and then MGM and […]

Aug, 13

Pardon Us *** (1931, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Wilfred Lucas, Walter Long, James Finlayson) – Classic Movie Review 7364

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy have fun sending up prison movies in ‘THEIR FIRST FULL LENGTH TALKING PICTURE’. Director James Parrott’s hour-long 1931 black and white comedy Pardon Us (aka Jailbirds) finds Stan Laurel and […]

Jul, 29

Mrs Soffel *** (1984, Diane Keaton, Mel Gibson, Matthew Modine, Edward Herrmann, Trini Alvarado, Jenny Dundas) – Classic Movie Review 7340

Director Gillian Armstrong’s 1984 drama Mrs Soffel looks good on paper: the then new star Mel Gibson on the crest on a wave, Oscar-winning Diane Keaton in mid-career, and bright new star Matthew Modine in […]

Jul, 25

The Longest Yard [The Mean Machine] ***** (1974, Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter, Michael Conrad) – Classic Movie Review 5316

Robert Aldrich said about Burt Reynolds: ‘On occasion he’s a much better actor than he’s given credit for. Not always. Sometimes he acts like a caricature of himself. I thought he was very good in […]

Apr, 17

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