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Black Beauty ** (1933, Esther Ralston, Alexander Kirkland, Hale Hamilton, Gavin Gordon, Don Alvarado, and George Walsh) – Classic Movie Review 11,817

After two silent versions in 1907 and 1921, director Phil Rosen’s 1933 black and white film Black Beauty is the first sound film of the beloved Anna Sewell children’s classic, written in 1877, about a […]

Dec, 31 · in Reviews

Black Beauty *** (1971, Mark Lester, Walter Slezak, Ursula Glas, Patrick Mower, John Nettleton) – Classic Movie Review 11,816

The 1971 film version of the beloved Anna Sewell children’s classic Black Beauty stars Mark Lester, Walter Slezak, Ursula Glas, Patrick Mower, and John Nettleton. Wolf Mankowitz comes up with an appealing, faithful script for […]

Dec, 30 · in Reviews

Black Beauty ** (1946, Mona Freeman, Richard Denning, Evelyn Ankers, J M Kerrigan, Terry Kilburn, Arthur Space) – Classic Movie Review 11,815

Mona Freeman stars as a Victorian English girl called Anne Wendon, who searches for her missing champion colt, now being mistreated as a workhorse, in this solid children’s film distantly related to its source, the […]

Dec, 30

Black Bart [Black Bart, Highwayman] *** (1948, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea, Jeffrey Lynn) – Classic Movie Review 11,814

The 1948 Technicolor Western film Black Bart [Black Bart, Highwayman] tells the story of celebrated dancer Lola Montez (Yvonne De Carlo) falling for real-life bandit Charles E Boles, aka Black Bart (Dan Duryea), during her […]

Dec, 30

Blind Alley **** (1939, Chester Morris, Ralph Bellamy, Ann Dvorak) – Classic Movie Review 11,813

Director Charles Vidor’s 1939 black and white Columbia Pictures film Blind Alley is a trail-blazing psychoanalysis film-noir thriller, about murderously tough hood Hal Wilson (Chester Morris) busting loose from jail and hiding out with a […]

Dec, 28

The Dark Past *** (1948, William Holden, Nina Foch, Lee J Cobb, Adele Jergens, Stephen Dunne, Lois Maxwell, Berry Kroeger) – Classic Movie Review 11,812

Director Rudolph Maté’s American 1948 extended flashback black and white psychological thriller The Dark Past is a suspenseful remake of the 1939 film Blind Alley, based on the 1935 play Blind Alley by James Warwick, with […]

Dec, 28

Venom: Let There Be Carnage * (2021, Tom Hardy, Woody Harrelson, Michelle Williams, Naomie Harris, Reid Scott, Stephen Graham, Peggy Lu) – Movie Review

The 2021 Anglo-American Marvel Comics superhero film Venom: Let There Be Carnage is the very unwelcome sequel to the 2018 Venom. It is nasty, British and short, and aggressively violent, making it no fun at […]

Dec, 28

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