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The Frogmen *** (1951, Richard Widmark, Dana Andrews, Gary Merrill, Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter) – Classic Movie Review 10,803

Director Lloyd Bacon’s 1951 American black-and-white World War Two drama The Frogmen stars Richard Widmark as martinet US Navy lieutenant commander John Lawrence, who leads the WW2 wartime Underwater Demolition Team divers of the title, and wins the […]

Jan, 18

Night Nurse **** (1931, Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell, Clark Gable) – Classic Movie Review 10,798

‘Tells the Naked Truth About Happenings in the Dead of Night!’ Director William A Wellman’s 1931 Warner Bros black and white crime thriller Night Nurse stars young Barbara Stanwyck as the nocturnal angel Lora Hart, […]

Jan, 16

The Night of January 16th ** (1941, Robert Preston, Ellen Drew, Nils Asther) – Classic Movie Review 10,797

Director William Clemens’s 1941 Paramount Pictures black and white mystery crime drama B-movie The Night of January 16th stars Ellen Drew as secretary Kit Lane who is actually the brunt of an embezzlement scam involving […]

Jan, 16

Hold-Up *** (1985, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Kim Cattrall, Guy Marchand) – Classic Movie Review 10,786

Director Alexandre Arcady’s 1985 film Hold-Up stars Jean-Paul Belmondo, whose sprightly playing holds up, but not his success at the box-office, for this entertaining French-Canadian heist thriller, based on Jay Cronley’s novel, in which he […]

Jan, 13

Old Ironsides [Sons of the Sea] **** (1926, Wallace Beery, Esther Ralston, George Bancroft, Charles Farrell) – Classic Movie Review 10,779

Paramount Pictures’ jolly silent classic 1926 pirate adventure yarn Old Ironsides from director James Cruze focuses on the Americans on a fighting ship seeing off the wicked Barbary buccaneers in the seas around Tripoli in […]

Jan, 12

Surprise Package ** (1960, Yul Brynner, Mitzi Gaynor, Noël Coward) – Classic Movie Review 10,771

Producer-director Stanley Donen’s 1960 British film Surprise Package is an off-the-wall comedy set on a Greek semi-tropical island, which is home to both a New York hoodlum, Nico March (Yul Brynner) and a European royal […]

Jan, 09

True History of the Kelly Gang** (2019, George MacKay, Essie Davis, Nicholas Hoult ) – Movie Review

Director Justin Kurzel’s 2019 Aussie outlaw epic True History of the Kelly Gang starts with a screenplay by Shaun Grant that is based on Peter Carey’s novel re-telling, totally fancifully, the story of Australian bushranger […]

Jan, 09

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