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Revolt of the Mercenaries [La rivolta dei mercenari] ** (1961, Virginia Mayo, Conrado San Martín, Susana Canales) – Classic Movie Review 7937

Director Piero Costa’s 1964 Revolt of the Mercenaries [La Rivolta dei Mercenari] is a lurid and lusty if somewhat mediocre Italian swashbuckler, set during the Renaissance in Friuli, Venezia, in an Italy that was then […]

Dec, 23 · in Reviews

Revolt of the Praetorians [La rivolta dei pretoriani] **(1964, Richard Harrison, Moira Orfei, Piero Lulli) – Classic Movie Review 7936

Handsome, muscular young American actor Richard Harrison stars as the centurion Valerius Rufus [Velerio Rufo], who commands the Imperial Praetorian Guard, in the 1964 Revolt of the Praetorians [La Rivolta dei Pretoriani], yet another exotic and entertaining […]

Dec, 22 · in Reviews

The Revolt of the Slaves [La Rivolta degli Schiavi] ** (1960, Rhonda Fleming, Lang Jeffries, Darío Moreno, Ettore Manni, Gino Cervi, Fernando Rey, Serge Gainsbourg) – Classic Movie Review 7935

Rhonda Fleming stars as ancient Roman patrician’s daughter Fabiola, who falls for a handsome young Christian slave called Vibio (Lang Jeffries). Nevertheless, the fiery Fabiola has Vibio flogged for disobeying an order. Fleming and her […]

Dec, 22

The Revolutionary *** (1970, Jon Voight, Seymour Cassel, Robert Duvall, Jennifer Salt) – Classic Movie Review 7934

Jon Voight gives a strong and convincing performance as the troubled college revolutionary – just called A – in director Paul Williams’s thoughtful, well-acted, understated and intelligent 1970 film The Revolutionary. Based on his own […]

Dec, 22

Revolt of the Barbarians [La rivolta dei barbari] * (1964, Roland Carey, Maria Grazia Spina, Mario Feliciani) – Classic Movie Review 7933

Director Guido Malatesta’s 1964 period action adventure drama Revolt of the Barbarians [La Rivolta dei Barbari] is a very moderate Italian sword and sandal epic, in which a Roman consul goes to Gaul to investigate […]

Dec, 22

Every Sunday *** (1936, Judy Garland, Deanna Durbin, Jack Lindquist) – Classic Movie Review 7932

Director Felix E Feist’s 1936 movie history-making MGM short film Every Sunday features the first notable screen appearances of both upcoming teenage stars Judy Garland (aged 14) and Deanna Durbin (aged 15), who makes her […]

Dec, 22

One Hundred Men and a Girl **** (1937, Deanna Durbin, Adolphe Menjou, Alice Brady, Leopold Stokowski, Eugene Pallette, Mischa Auer, Billy Gilbert) – Classic Movie Review 7931

In director Henry Koster’s 1937 black and white musical One Hundred Men and a Girl, the girl is the 16-year-old Deanna Durbin, playing Patricia Cardwell, the daughter of a struggling musician John Cardwell (Adolphe Menjou), […]

Dec, 22

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