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The Hoodlum Priest *** (1961, Don Murray, Keir Dullea, Larry Gates, Cindi Wood, Logan Ramsey) – Classic Movie Review 8953

Director Irvin Kershner’s 1961 black and white drama The Hoodlum Priest stars Don Murray as St Louis Jesuit priest, Father Charles Dismas Clark, who tries to keep hoodlum Billy Lee Jackson (Keir Dullea) on the […]

Sep, 30

Canadian Pacific ** (1949, Randolph Scott, Jane Wyatt, Nancy Olson, J Carrol Naish, Victor Jory, Robert Barrat) – Classic Movie Review 8,950

The solid, busy 1949 Western movie Canadian Pacific stars an ideal Randolph Scott as a railroad surveyor who discovers the pass through the Rockies, fights Indians and battles a trapper-boss (Victor Jory). Director Edwin L […]

Sep, 29

Canadian Bacon ** (1995, John Candy, Alan Alda, Rhea Perlman, Kevin Pollak, Rip Torn) – Classic Movie Review 8949

The good cast is mostly wasted in writer-director Michael Moore’s largely misfiring 1995 satire Canadian Bacon – but then it would have been much, much worse without them. Alan Alda is quite funny as the […]

Sep, 29

Danger Within [Breakout] *** (1959, Richard Todd, Bernard Lee, Michael Wilding, Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Donald Houston, Peter Arne) – Classic Movie Review 8939

Director Don Chaffey’s 1959 British in black and white war movie drama Danger Within [Breakout] is old-fashioned (even in 1959) but still involving stuff, boosted by the reliably strong playing from stiff-lipped stalwarts Richard Todd, […]

Sep, 25

Revenge of the Zombies [The Corpse Vanished] *** (1943, John Carradine, Gale Storm, Robert Lowery, Veda Ann Borg, Bob Steele, Mantan Moreland) – Classic Movie Review 8,927

The 1943 American comedy horror film Revenge of the Zombies stars John Carradine as mad scientist Dr Max Heinrich von Altermann, working to create a race of living dead warriors for the Third Reich. ‘DEAD MEN CAN’T DIE… but live […]

Sep, 22

Ne Zha [Nezha zhi motong jiangshi] (2019) – Movie Review

Writer-director Yu Yang [Jiaozi]’s striking 2019 Chinese animated fantasy adventure Ne Zha [Nezha zhi motong jiangshi] is bright, lively, entertaining, sometimes impressive and sometimes just amiably silly. Some of the animation design looks very good […]

Sep, 12

The Purple Heart *** (1944, Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, Farley Granger) – Classic Movie Review 8886

That noble director of war movies Lewis Milestone gave us All Quiet On The Western Front, A Walk In The Sun, Halls of Montezuma and also this World War Two look at the plight of […]

Sep, 08

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