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The Overlanders **** (1946, Chips Rafferty, John Nugent Hayward, Daphne Campbell) – Classic Movie Review 4671

Chips Rafferty stars as Dan McAlpine, a cattle boss who leads a group of Northern Australian cattlemen and their herds away from the threat of Japan’s hostile forces by conducting a herd of 1,000 cattle […]

Nov, 20 · in Reviews

Eureka Stockade [Massacre Hill] *** (1949, Chips Rafferty, Ralph Truman, Jane Barrett, Gordon Jackson, Jack Lambert, Peter Illing, Peter Finch) – Classic Movie Review 4670

Britain’s Ealing Studios went Down Under to Australia again (following its success with The Overlanders) for co-writer/ director Harry Watt’s 1949 pseudo-Western about four Victorian period Aussie gold miners, led by Peter Lalor (Chips Rafferty), grouping […]

Nov, 20 · in Reviews

Europa [Zentropa] *** (1991, Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa, Udo Kier, Eddie Constantine) – Classic Movie Review 4669

Cult name director Lars von Trier’s interesting but dodgy 1991 art-movie, with some imaginative work in the pop-video-style visuals by von Trier and his three cinematographers (Henning Bendtsen, Edward Klosinski, Jean-Paul Meurisse) compensating for muddled […]

Nov, 20

Europa Europa **** (1990, Marco Hofschneider, René Hofschneider, Julie Delpy, Solomon Perel) – Classic Movie Review 4668

Marco Hofschneider’s acting career started unexpectedly when he was cast to play the lead in writer-director Agnieszka Holland’s exciting, rousing and highly emotional 1990 true-life war drama. It was the Golden Globe winner for Best Foreign Language […]

Nov, 20

Urban Legends: Final Cut *** (2000, Jennifer Morrison, Matthew Davis, Loretta Devine, Hart Bochner, Joey Lawrence, Aaron Mount, Eva Mendes) – Classic Movie Review 4667

Director John Ottman’s 2000 horror sequel to the 1998 hit Urban Legend is surprisingly smart. In the screenplay by Paul Harris Boardman and Scott Derrickson, this time a student film-maker, Amy Mayfield (Jennifer Morrison), is having grave […]

Nov, 20

The Last of the High Kings [Summer Fling] ***½ (1996, Jared Leto, Gabriel Byrne, Catherine O’Hara, Christina Ricci, Colm Meany, Stephen Rea, Lorraine Pilkington, Emily Mortimer) – Classic Movie Review 4666

Co-writer/ director David Keating’s 1996 Irish comedy drama little winner is appealing and intelligent, with a beautifully crafted script by Keating and Gabriel Byrne. This surprisingly sweet Irish tale is lit up with a cute […]

Nov, 19

The Last of the Mohicans **** (1920, Wallace Beery, Barbara Bedford, Lillian Hall, Harry Lorraine, Theodore Lorch, Alan Roscoe, James Gordon) – Classic Movie Review 4665

Wallace Beery makes a sterling hero as the Indian runner Magua in this famous 1920 silent movie. Directors Maurice Tourneur and Clarence Brown’s exciting, well-made adventure yarn is based on James Fenimore Cooper’s classic tale of the […]

Nov, 19

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