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Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush *** (1968, Barry Evans, Judy Geeson, Moyra Fraser, Denholm Elliott, Michael Bates, Angela Scoular, Sheila White, Adrienne Posta, Diane Keen) – Classic Movie Review 9003

Director Clive Donner’s 1968 British Swinging Sixties British comedy drama Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush stars Barry Evans as schoolboy Jamie McGregor, a virgin who seems to prefer his Walter Mitty fantasies to […]

Oct, 21 · in Reviews

High-Ballin’ ** (1978, Peter Fonda, Jerry Reed, Helen Shaver, Chris Wiggins) – Classic Movie Review 9002

Director Peter Carter’s uninspired, over-familiar-seeming 1978 action adventure High-Ballin’ stars Peter Fonda, Jerry Reed (from Smokey and the Bandit) and Helen Shaver as truckers fighting off the bad guys who want to put them out […]

Oct, 21 · in Reviews

High Art *** (1998, Radha Mitchell, Ally Sheedy, Patricia Clarkson) – Classic Movie Review 9001

Writer-director Lisa Cholodenko’s 1998 romantic drama High Art stars Radha Mitchell as a young woman intern whose magazine career is on the rise, thanks to her relationship with a once beautiful lesbian photographer (Ally Sheedy), […]

Oct, 21

The Devil’s 8 [The Devil’s Eight] ** (1968, Christopher George, Ralph Meeker, Fabian Forte, Tom Nardini, Leslie Parrish, Ross Hagen, Cliff Osmond, Larry Bishop) – Classic Movie Review 9000

This time, in director Burt Topper’s 1968 The Devil’s 8 [The Devil’s Eight], it is a Dirty Half Dozen or So, as US federal government agent Ray Faulkner (Christopher George) lines up an ill-assorted gang […]

Oct, 21

The Hidden II * (1993, Raphael Sbarge, Kate Hodge, Michael Welden, Jovin Montanaro) – Classic Movie Review 8999

Writer-director Seth Pinsker’s 1994 sequel The Hidden II comes without any of the original stars (Kyle MacLachlan, Claudia Christian, Michael Nouri, Ed O’Ross, Clarence Felder, Clu Gulager) from the 1987 The Hidden. So it is […]

Oct, 21

Devil’s Doorway ** (1950, Robert Taylor, Louis Calhern, Paula Raymond, Marshall Thompson, James Mitchell, Edgar Buchanan) – Classic Movie Review 8998

The 1950 film Devil’s Doorway is a downbeat and unpersuasive Western, but worth a look for Anthony Mann’s pacey direction, John Alton’s impressive black and white camerawork and the strong action finish. Paleface Robert Taylor […]

Oct, 20

The Devil’s Disciple *** (1959, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Eva Le Gallienne, Janette Scott, Harry Andrews, Basil Sydney) – Classic Movie Review 8997

Despite the special cast, director Guy Hamilton’s 1959 black and white comedy drama The Devil’s Disciple is an only so-so film of George Bernard Shaw’s intriguing play about Dick Dudgeon (Kirk Douglas), the son of […]

Oct, 20

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