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- Night Monster *** (1942, Bela Lugosi, Ralph Morgan, Don Porter, Irene Hervey, Lionel Atwill, Nils Asther, Leif Erickson, Frank Reicher, Francis Pierlot) – Classic Movie Review 13,914
- The Ride Back *** (1957, Anthony Quinn, William Conrad, Lita Milan, Victor Millan) – Classic Movie Review 13,913
- Woman’s World *** (1954, Clifton Webb, Lauren Bacall, Van Heflin, June Allyson, Fred MacMurray, Arlene Dahl, Cornel Wilde) – Classic Movie Review 13,912
- A Woman’s Vengeance [The Giaconda Smile] **** (1948, Charles Boyer, Jessica Tandy, Ann Blyth, Cedric Hardwicke, Mildred Natwick, Rachel Kempson) – Classic Movie Review 13,911
- Terror from the Year 5000 [Cage of Doom] * (1958, Ward Costello, Joyce Holden, John Stratton, Salome Jens) – Classic Movie Review 13,910
- The Puppet Masters ** (1994, Donald Sutherland, Eric Thal, Keith David, Julie Warner, Andrew Robinson) – Classic Movie Review 13,909
- Fuze ** (2025, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Theo James, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Elham Ehsas, Sam Worthington) – Classic Movie Review 13,908
- Perro Perro *** (2025, Germán Flood, Juan Ramos) – Classic Movie Review 13,907
- A Taste of Excitement ** (1969, Eva Renzi, David Buck, Peter Vaughan, Francis Matthews, Sophie Hardy, Paul Hubschmid, Kay Walsh, Peter Bowles) – Classic Movie Review 13,906
- Lone Cowboy ** (1933, Jackie Cooper, Lila Lee, John Wray, Addison Richards) – Classic Movie Review 13,905
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Son of a Gunfighter * (1965, Russ Tamblyn, Kieron Moore, James Philbrook, Fernando Rey, María Granada) – Classic Movie Review 10,572
Director Paul Landres’s game but pedestrian 1966 Sixties Paella Western film Son of a Gunfighter [El Hijo del Pistolero] stars Russ Tamblyn as Johnny Ketchum, the son of notorious gunfighter James ‘Ace’ Ketchum. It is […]
Home Before Dark *** (1958, Jean Simmons, Dan O’Herlihy, Rhonda Fleming, Efrem Zimbalist Jr) – Classic Movie Review 10,571
Rhonda Fleming called Mervyn LeRoy’s 1958 drama film Home Before Dark her favourite role, saying: ‘It was a marvellous stretch’. Jean Simmons, Dan O’Herlihy and Efrem Zimbalist Jr also star. It is written by Eileen […]
Bullwhip ** (1958, Guy Madison, Rhonda Fleming, James Griffith) – Classic Movie Review 10,570
Director Harmon Jones’s 1958 Western film Bullwhip is a traditional Fifties-style comedic look at life on the range, with tepid handling, fumbling the admittedly tricky juggling act between action, humour and romance. To escape a […]
The Invisible Boy *** (1957, Richard Eyer, Philip Abbott, Diane Brewster) – Classic Movie Review 10,569
‘Can science go too far? Can it create life??’ Good question, MGM. In a story by Edmund Cooper, computer boffin Dr Tom Merrinoe (Philip Abbott)’s 10-year-old son Timmie (Richard Eyer) repairs and befriends Forbidden Planet’s […]
Soft Top Hard Shoulder *** (1992, Peter Capaldi, Elaine Collins, Jeremy Northam, Richard Wilson, Frances Barber, Simon Callow, Catherine Russell, Phyllis Logan) *** Classic Movie Review 10,568
Director Stefan Schwartz’s 1992 comedy Soft Top Hard Shoulder is good middle-brow fun, in the Local Hero style, made with an eagle eye for laughs and arresting images. Peter Capaldi has done himself an enormous […]
Sombrero *** (1953, Ricardo Montalban, Pier Angeli, Vittorio Gassman, Yvonne De Carlo, Cyd Charisse, Rick Jason, Nina Foch, Kurt Kasznar) – Classic Movie Review 10,567
Romance and drama down Mexico way are to the fore in three tales of frustrated love in director Norman Foster’s pleasingly peculiar 1953 Technicolor romantic musical Sombrero, based on Josefina Niggli’s book A Mexican Village. […]
Soft Beds, Hard Battles * (1974, Peter Sellers, Lila Kedrova, Curd Jürgens, Béatrice Romand) – Classic Movie Review 10,566
The 1974 British comedy Soft Beds, Hard Battles [Undercovers Hero] is set during the Nazi occupation of France. The Boulting Brothers’ brew of ancient jokes and antique routines results in uneasy entertainment, but there is […]