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Heart of Glass [Herz aus Glas] *** (1976, Josef Bierbichler, Stefan Güttler, Clemens Scheitz) – Classic Movie Review 10,195

Director Werner Herzog’s 1976 Heart of Glass [Herz aus Glas] is an odd version of a German folktale, about a Bavarian shepherd who reveals the secrets of glassblowing to a village factory boss whose expert […]

Aug, 19

Hard to Get ** (1938, Dick Powell, Olivia de Havilland, Charles Winninger) – Classic Movie Review 10,194

Director Ray Enright’s 1938 screwball romantic comedy Hard to Get stars Dick Powell, who gets one hit song (‘You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby’) to croon as Bill Davis, an architect working as a […]

Aug, 18

Meet the Applegates * (1990, Ed Begley Jr, Stockard Channing, Dabney Coleman ) – Classic Movie Review 10,193

Director Michael Lehmann’s 1990 Meet the Applegates is a defiantly peculiar surreal fantasy comedy about a colony of giant bugs from South America masquerading as a typical US family. The dad, Richard P Applegate (Ed […]

Aug, 18

Marked for Death * (1990, Steven Seagal, Joanna Pacula, Basil Wallace) – Classic Movie Review 10,192

Director Dwight H Little’s plodding 1990 violence-by-numbers crime ‘thriller’ Marked for Death [Screwface] stars the era’s hot action man Steven Seagal as Chicago DEA agent John Hatcher, a retired drug-busting operative marked for death by […]

Aug, 18

Gable and Lombard * (1976, James Brolin, Jill Clayburgh, Allen Garfield) – Classic Movie Review 10,191

Director Sidney J Furie’s 1976 romantic drama Gable and Lombard is movie tittle-tattle told in flashback about how the two vibrant stars Clark Gable and Carole Lombard met at a Hollywood party, carried on meeting […]

Aug, 17

The Iron Mistress ** (1952, Alan Ladd, Virginia Mayo, Joseph Calleia) – Classic Movie Review 10,123

Director Gordon Douglas’s 1952 film The Iron Mistress stars Alan Ladd, who is neatly cast as Jim Bowie, the frontiersman inventor of the twin-edged knife, in this routine, fictionalised fact-based Western biopic. There is romance […]

Aug, 02

OSS [O.S.S.] **** (1946, Alan Ladd, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Patric Knowles) – Classic Movie Review 10,100

Director Irving Pichel’s 1946 film OSS stars Alan Ladd as John Martin, the leader of a secret American unit of the Office of Strategic Services, dropped behind enemy lines in World War Two France. The […]

Jul, 28

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