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A Hole in the Head *** (1959, Frank Sinatra, Edward G Robinson, Eleanor Parker, Carolyn Jones, Thelma Ritter, Eddie Hodges, Keenan Wynn) – Classic Movie Review 4726

Alas, a great stage play, a great cast (Frank Sinatra, Edward G Robinson, Eleanor Parker, Carolyn Jones, Thelma Ritter, Eddie Hodges, Keenan Wynn and Joi Lansing), a great director (Frank Capra) and a great song […]

Nov, 30 · in Uncategorized

Dodge City **** (1939, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Ann Sheridan, (Bruce Cabot, Victor Jory, Douglas Fowley) – Classic Movie Review 4725

Director Michael Curtiz’s archetypal action-packed 1939 Western pairs Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland again for the fifth of their nine movies together. In his first Western, Flynn (who thought that he was miscast in […]

Nov, 30 · in Uncategorized

The Charge of the Light Brigade **** (1968, Trevor Howard, John Gielgud, David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Jill Bennett, Harry Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 4724

Director Tony Richardson’s last great film is a superb reworking of, as well as antidote to, the old romantic and heroic fictionalised Errol Flynn film The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), seen through the […]

Nov, 30

The Charge of the Light Brigade **** (1936, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Patric Knowles, Donald Crisp, C Aubrey Smith, David Niven, Henry Stephenson, Nigel Bruce) – Classic Movie Review 4723

Director Michael Curtiz’s tremendous 1936 gung-ho action adventure film is supposedly based on Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem about the British army’s heroic cavalry charge into disaster at Balaklava in the Crimean War in 1854. ‘Half […]

Nov, 30

The Man with the Golden Arm **** (1958, Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker, Kim Novak, Arnold Stang, Darren McGavin, Robert Strauss, Doro Merande) – Classic Movie Review 4722

Producer-director Otto Preminger’s then controversial 1958 noirish drama stars Frank Sinatra, who was Oscar-nominated Sinatra for his forceful and persuasive performance as drug addict Frankie Machine, the weak-willed Chicago card dealing gambler who tries to […]

Nov, 29

The Joker Is Wild ***½ (1957, Frank Sinatra, Mitzi Gaynor, Jeanne Crain, Eddie Albert, Beverly Garland, Jackie Coogan, Sophie Tucker, Ted De Corsia, Barry Kelley) – Classic Movie Review 4721

Director Charles Vidor’s hit 1957 musical The Joker Is Wild stars Frank Sinatra as Twenties Chicago night-club/ speakeasy singer Joe E Lewis, who is invited to work for the Mob during the Prohibition era, and […]

Nov, 29

Last Summer in the Hamptons **** (1995, Viveca Lindfors, Victoria Foyt, Holland Taylor, Martha Plimpton, Roddy McDowall, André Gregory, Nick Gregory, Diane Salinger, Krisoffer Tabori) – Classic Movie Review 4720

This delicious 1995 ensemble piece is one of co-writer/ director Henry Jaglom’s most successful outings, perfectly capturing the flavour of long but dying summer days and the character of theatrical folk. Viveca Lindfors is magnificent […]

Nov, 29

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