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Great Day in the Morning ** (1956, Virginia Mayo, Robert Stack, Ruth Roman, Alex Nicol, Raymond Burr) – Classic Movie Review 10,214

There are deep divisions down in Denver as both sides in the US Civil War try to get the gold, in Jacques Tourneur’s 1955 Great Day in the Morning, an over-serious Western that is full […]

Aug, 23

The Hard Way *** (1943, Ida Lupino, Joan Leslie, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson) – Classic Movie Review 10,213

Director Vincent Sherman’s attractive 1943 backstage yarn The Hard Way stars Ida Lupino as ambitious steel-town gal Helen Chernen, who boosts her younger sister Katherine (Joan Leslie) into marriage with music man Albert Runkel (Jack […]

Aug, 22

The Hard Way ** (1991, Michael J Fox, James Woods, Stephen Lang) – Classic Movie Review 10,212

Director John Badham ‘s contrived 1991 The Hard Way stars Michael J Fox, playing famous Hollywood action star actor Nick Lang, who joins the police to see life as it really is, and joins forces […]

Aug, 22

Hard Country *** (1981, Jan-Michael Vincent, Kim Basinger, Michael Parks) – Classic Movie Review 10,211

Director David Greene’s 1981 Hard Country stars Jan-Michael Vincent as a shiftless small town Texas drifter Kyle, a factory worker who falls for ambitious young Jodie (Kim Basinger) and becomes her boyfriend. But he just […]

Aug, 22

Hard Contract *** (1969, James Coburn, Lee Remick, Lilli Palmer, Burgess Meredith, Patrick Magee, Sterling Hayden, Helen Cherry, Karen Black) – Classic Movie Review 10,210

Writer-director S Lee Pogostin’s 1969 thriller Hard Contract stars James Coburn, who is ideally cast in a quintessential role as John Cunningham, the cold-blooded American assassin who goes to Europe for one last hit, but […]

Aug, 22

Grandview, USA *** (1984, Jamie Lee Curtis, C Thomas Howell, Patrick Swayze, Troy Donahue, Jennifer Jason Leigh) – Classic Movie Review 10,209

Director Randal Klesier’s 1984 coming-of-age teen drama Grandview, USA stars C Thomas Howell as Tim Pearson, a fleeing 18-year-old school-leaver who arrives in the fictional Grandview in the Mid-West and meets older woman ‘Mike’ Cody […]

Aug, 21

Grandma’s Boy **** (1922, Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Anna Townsend) – Classic Movie Review 10,208

Director Fred C Newmeyer’s 1922 Grandma’s Boy stars Harold Lloyd (for his first feature), who shines in his silent-comedy tale of grandma’s boy, a hopeless coward and country bumpkin (Lloyd, of course) whose grandpa (also […]

Aug, 21

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