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The Ballad of Cable Hogue **** (1970, Jason Robards, Stella Stevens, David Warner, Strother Martin, Slim Pickens, R G Armstrong, L Q Jones) – Classic Movie Review 10,291

Sam Peckinpah’s 1970 The Ballad of Cable Hogue is an entertaining lighter-hearted Western from the director of The Wild Bunch, in which prospector Cable Hogue (Jason Robards) sets out for revenge on the bad guys […]

Sep, 11 · in Reviews

The Ballad of Lucy Whipple *** (2001, Glenn Close, Jena Malone, Bruce McGill) – Classic Movie Review 10,290

Director Jeremy Paul Kagan’s 2001 TV movie The Ballad of Lucy Whipple is a superior, pacy, gripping adventure about a mom, Arvella Whipple (Glenn Close), and her three children heading West after the death of […]

Sep, 10 · in Reviews

The Amazing Mr Blunden **** (1972, Laurence Naismith, Lynne Frederick, Garry Miller, Diana Dors, James Villiers, David Lodge, Graham Crowden, Dorothy Alison) – Classic Movie Review 10,289

Writer-director Lionel Jeffries’s 1972 family mystery fantasy film The Amazing Mr Blunden is a charming adaptation of Antonia Barber’s much loved novel The Ghosts, painstakingly directed by the evergreen Jeffries (The Railway Children). Two 1918 Camden […]

Sep, 10

The Ballad of Josie ** (1967, Doris Day, Peter Graves, George Kennedy, William Talman, Andy Devine, Audrey Christie) – Classic Movie Review 10,288

Director Andrew V McLaglen’s 1967 Technicolor film The Ballad of Josie is an amiable girl-power Western comedy, with Doris Day enjoying herself as the widow Josie Minick, who accidentally kills her drunken husband with a […]

Sep, 10

The Bay Boy *** (1984, Liv Ullmann, Kiefer Sutherland, Peter Donat) – Classic Movie Review 10,287

Writer-director Daniel Petrie’s Canadian 1984 coming-of-age drama/ thriller The Bay Boy [Un Printemps Sous La Neige] stars Liv Ullmann, Kiefer Sutherland and Peter Donat. Life is nasty and brutish for 16-year old Donald Campbell (Sutherland) […]

Sep, 10

Baxter! *** (1973, Patricia Neal, Scott Jacoby, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Britt Ekland) – Classic Movie Review 10,286

Director Lionel Jeffries’s sympathetic 1975 British drama Baxter! stars Patricia Neal as speech therapist Dr Clemm, who tries to solve the problems of disturbed, speech-afflicted 12-year-old Roger Baxter (Scott Jacoby), upset after his parents’ breakup. The […]

Sep, 10

Ghoulies II * (1987, Damon Martin, Royal Dano, Phil Fondacaro) – Classic Movie Review 10,285

Director Albert Band’s 1987 film Ghoulies II stars Damon Martin as Larry, Royal Dano as Uncle Ned and Phil Fondacaro as Sir Nigel Penneyweight, and is based on the characters created by Luca Bercovici and […]

Sep, 09

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