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One More Train to Rob ** (1971, George Peppard, Diana Muldaur, John Vernon) – Classic Movie Review 9761

The 1971 Western film One More Train to Rob, about the aftermath of an assault on a trainload of gold ending up with the hero being framed and sent to prison, features a star turn […]

May, 13

A Walk in the Spring Rain * (1970, Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Quinn, Fritz Weaver) – Classic Movie Review 9759

Director Guy Green’s 1970 film A Walk in the Spring Rain is a ghastly romantic drama, based on Rachel Maddox’s novel, wasting the talents of the great Ingrid Bergman and Anthony Quinn, both still in […]

May, 13

Avalanche [Escape from Alaska] * (1999, Thomas Ian Griffith, Caroleen Feeney, R Lee Ermey, C Thomas Howell) – Classic Movie Review 9749

Director Steve Kroschel’s 1999 Avalanche is a feeble, cheap-looking action thriller, with Thomas Ian Griffith as a chopper pilot working with an environmentalist couple (C Thomas Howell, Caroleen Feeney) in Alaska, tagging foxes for the […]

May, 11

Avalanche * (1978, Rock Hudson, Mia Farrow, Robert Forster) – Classic Movie Review 9748

Director Corey Allen’s 1978 action drama Avalanche is a minor, just passable disaster movie, unexpectedly from producer Roger Corman, made and distributed by New World Pictures, with a six million-ton avalanche spelling doom for trippers at […]

May, 11

In the Doghouse ** (1961, Leslie Phillips, Peggy Cummins, Hattie Jacques, James Booth, Dick Bentley) – Classic Movie Review 9736

Director Darcy Conyers’s 1961 comedy In the Doghouse has us in mild stitches with James Herriot-type adventures, this time adapted from the novel It’s a Vet’s Life by Alex Duncan, in a screenplay by the […]

May, 09

Rose of Washington Square **** (1939, Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Al Jolson, William Frawley, Joyce Compton) – Classic Movie Review 9726

Director Gregory Ratoff’s 1939 black and white musical Rose of Washington Square stars Alice Faye, who grabs one of her best chances as Rose Sargent, a 1920s New York singer trying to perform a difficult […]

May, 07

Moonlighting **** (1982, Jeremy Irons, Eugene Lipinski, Jirí Stanislav) – Classic Movie Review 9725

Writer-director Jerzy Skolimowski’s 1982 British drama Moonlighting is a fascinating allegorical piece about deceit and theft, with a sterling performance by Jeremy Irons as contractor Nowak, the leader of a small band of Polish workers […]

May, 06

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