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Red Skies of Montana [Smoke Jumpers] ** (1952, Richard Widmark, Constance Smith, Jeffrey Hunter) – Classic Movie Review 9538

The three Richards – Richard Widmark, Richard Boone and Richard Crenna – star in director Joseph M Newman’s 1952 action adventure drama Red Skies of Montana [Smoke Jumpers], a run-of-the-mill tale of US Forest Service […]

Mar, 21

Red Sky at Morning *** (1971, Richard Thomas, Catherine Burns, Desi Arnaz Jr, Richard Crenna, Claire Bloom) – Classic Movie Review 9537

Director James Goldstone’s 1971 drama Red Sky at Morning is based on the novel by Richard Bradford and stars Richard Thomas as young Joshua Arnold, who moves to New Mexico in 1944 as his dad […]

Mar, 20

Man About the House ** (1974, Richard O’Sullivan, Paula Wilcox, Sally Thomsett) – Classic Movie Review 9536

Hammer Films’ tame and tiring 1974 sex comedy Man About the House is spun off from the popular 39-episode Seventies British TV series Man About the House (1973–1976) about two young women, Chrissy and Jo, […]

Mar, 20

A Man, a Woman and a Bank *** (1979, Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Paul Mazursky) – Classic Movie Review 9535

Donald Sutherland and Brooke Adams star as amateur crooks Reese Halperin (Sutherland) and Stacey Bishop (Adams), who find a computerised way to rob a Vancouver bank, in director Noel Black’s generally amusing, often tense Seventies […]

Mar, 20

Mammy *** (1930, Al Jolson, Lois Moran, Lowell Sherman, Louise Dresser, Hobart Bosworth) – Classic Movie Review 9534

Al Jolson stars as minstrel singer Al Fuller, in director Michael Curtiz’s sparky 1930 behind-the-scenes theatre musical Mammy, with a shooting, an Irving Berlin score and Louise Dresser all thrown in as Mammy. Jolson has […]

Mar, 20

Mame * (1974, Lucille Ball, Robert Preston, Bea Arthur, Bruce Davison) – Classic Movie Review 9533

Director Gene Saks’s 1974 Mame is the way less than satisfactory movie of the all-time great Jerry Herman Broadway show, though even so it is a bit of a one-hit wonder – the title track […]

Mar, 20

The Four Just Men [The Secret Four] **** (1939, Hugh Sinclair, Griffith Jones, Francis L Sullivan, Frank Lawton, Anna Lee, Alan Napier, Basil Sydney) – Classic Movie Review 9532

Director Walter Forde’s 1939 British Ealing Studios black and white movie The Four Just Men [The Secret Four] is a spiffing film of Edgar Wallace’s famed spy thriller story about four righteous vigilante Brits (Hugh […]

Mar, 20

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