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The Silver Whip ** (1953, Dale Robertson, Rory Calhoun, Robert Wagner) – Classic Movie Review 10,815

‘All its stinging slashing fury explodes like the crack of 1000 six guns… A GREAT SAGA OF THE SILVER WEST MAKES ITS MIGHTY MARK ON THE SCREEN!’ Robert Wagner co-stars as cocky young drifter Jess Harker […]

Jan, 21

Ordet [The Word] **** (1955, Henrik Malberg, Emil Hass Christensen, Preben Lerdorff Rye) – Classic Movie Review 10,814

Writer-director Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1955 black and white classic Danish drama Ordet [The Word] is based on a play by Kaj Munk, a Danish Lutheran priest, first performed in 1932. It follows the lives of […]

Jan, 21

Stopover Tokyo *** (1957, Robert Wagner, Joan Collins, Edmond O’Brien) – Classic Movie Review 10,812

After two box-office disappointments, it seemed that Robert Wagner was unable to make the transition to top-level star. This appeared confirmed when he was the lead in Stopover Tokyo (1957), a CinemaScope and DeLuxe colour […]

Jan, 20

The Happy Years *** (1950, Dean Stockwell, Darryl Hickman, Scotty Beckett, Leon Ames, Margalo Gillmore, Leo G Carroll) – Classic Movie Review 10,808

Director William A Wellman’s 1950 MGM Technicolor comedy The Happy Years stars Dean Stockwell, Darryl Hickman, Scotty Beckett, Leon Ames, Margalo Gillmore and Leo G Carroll. Craggy, crusty but essentially nice fuddy-duddy old Englishman called […]

Jan, 19

The Seduction of Joe Tynan **** (1979, Alan Alda, Barbara Harris, Meryl Streep, Melvyn Douglas, Rip Torn) – Classic Movie Review 10,806

‘There are many ways to be seduced. Fame. Power. Love. Joe Tynan knows them all.’ Director Jerry Schatzberg’s entertaining and involving 1979 political drama The Seduction of Joe Tynan about the slippery path to success […]

Jan, 18

Secrets of the Phantom Caverns [What Waits Below] (1984, Robert Powell, Timothy Bottoms, Lisa Blount, Richard Johnson, Anne Heywood) – Classic Movie Review 10,805

Archaeologists open up a deep cavern in South America and get the shock of their lives when they uncover a lost race of albino aliens in carpet slippers, in the hilariously awful 1984 action horror film […]

Jan, 18

The Frog Prince **** (1985, Jane Snowden, Alexandre Sterling, Diana Blackburn) – Classic Movie Review 10,804

David Puttnam produced director Brian Gilbert’s sweet and relaxing 1985 romance The Frog Prince [The French Lesson], based on a book by Nina Rootes and co-written by the director and The Guardian cartoonist Posy Simmonds, […]

Jan, 18

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