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Charlie Chan at the Circus ** (1936, Warner Oland, Keye Luke, John McGuire, George Brasno, Olive Brasno, Francis Ford) – Movie Review 9036

Director Harry Lachman’s 1936 mystery thriller Charlie Chan at the Circus is a middling, though still entertaining enough episode, in which Warner Oland stars as Chan, who probes a circus killing, along with the help […]

Oct, 31

The Alphabet Murders [The ABC Murders] * (1965, Tony Randall, Robert Morley, Anita Ekberg) – Classic Movie Review 9029

Agatha Christie’s A1 vintage thriller novel The ABC Murders about a murderer apparently bumping people off alphabetically is infuriatingly played for broad and easy laughs by a miscast Tony Randall as Eurotec Hercule Poirot, and […]

Oct, 29

Trancers [Future Cop] *** (1984, Tim Thomerson, Helen Hunt, Michael Stefani) – Classic Movie Review 9013

Director Charles Band’s 1984 sci-fi action thriller Trancers [Future Cop] stars stand-up comedian – tough guy character actor Tim Thomerson, who acts tough as Trooper Jack Deth, a rogue 23rd-century cop and bounty hunter. He is […]

Oct, 24

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp *** (1926, Harry Langdon, Joan Crawford, Edwards Davis) – Classic Movie Review 9012

Joan Crawford appears and Frank Capra helped to write director Harry Edwards’s 1926 silent comedy Tramp, Tramp, Tramp for star Harry Langdon, who plays the humble, lowly Harry Logan, who takes part in a $25,000 […]

Oct, 23

Hornets’ Nest [Il Vespaio] ** (1970, Rock Hudson, Sylva Koscina, Sergio Fantoni) – Classic Movie Review 9007

Director Phil Karlson’s 1970 Hornets’ Nest [Il Vespaio] stars Rock Hudson as sole surviving American paratrooper captain Turner, who leads the bunch of Italian orphans who have saved him in blowing up a crucial Nazi […]

Oct, 22

Beneath the 12-Mile Reef *** (1953, Robert Wagner, Terry Moore, Gilbert Roland) – Classic Movie Review 9006

Director Robert D Webb’s 1953 adventure Beneath the 12-Mile Reef stars the young and innocent-looking Robert Wagner and Terry Moore as a latter-day Romeo and Juliet, brightening up an early CinemaScope tale of love, hate […]

Oct, 22

Hope and Glory ***** (1987, Sarah Miles, Susan Wooldridge, Ian Bannen, David Hayman, Sebastian Rice-Edwards, Derrick O’Connor, Jean-Marc Barr) – Classic Movie Review 9005

The 1987 British nostalgic wartime comedy drama Hope and Glory is a wonderful, warmest-hearted trip down memory lane as John Boorman writes, produces and directs this semi-autobiographical account of World War Two, as seen through […]

Oct, 22

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