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The Oregon Trail (1936, John Wayne, Ann Rutherford, Joseph W Girard) – Classic Movie Review 10,630

Director Scott Pembroke’s 1936 Republic Pictures black and white short (59 minutes) Western film The Oregon Trail stars the 29-year-old John Wayne as retired US Army Captain John Delmont, out to avenge his father’s killer, left […]

Dec, 05

When the Daltons Rode **** (1940, Randolph Scott, Kay Francis, Brian Donlevy, Andy Devine, George Bancroft, Stuart Erwin, Broderick Crawford, Frank Albertson) – Classic Movie Review 9812

The notorious Dalton brothers (Brian Donlevy as Grat, Broderick Crawford as Bob, Stuart Erwin as Ben and Frank Albertson as Emmett) ride the range after the greedy railroad guys deprive them of their land and […]

May, 23

Revenge of the Pink Panther ** (1978, Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Burt Kwouk, Dyan Cannon) – Classic Movie Review 8871

Director Blake Edwards’s 1978 comedy Revenge of the Pink Panther is only mildly amusing. Peter Sellers’s last hurrah as Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau has virtually no story and is really no more than just a […]

Aug, 27

King of the Roaring 20s: The Story of Arnold Rothstein ** (1961, David Janssen, Dianne Foster, Jack Carson, Diana Dors, Mickey Rooney) – Classic Movie Review 8486

‘THE HELL-BENT, JAZZ-CRAZED ERA AND THE MAN WHO RULED IT ALL’ Director Joseph M Newman’s 1961 black and white B movie biographical crime drama King of the Roaring 20s – The Story of Arnold Rothstein […]

May, 20

Drum Beat *** (1954, Alan Ladd, Audrey Dalton, Marisa Pavan, Robert Keith, Rodolpho Acosta, Charles Bronson, Warner Anderson, Elisha Cook Jr, Anthony Caruso, Richard Gaines) – Classic Movie Review 6826

Writer-director Delmer Daves’s 1954 Western stars a laid-back Alan Ladd, who plays Indian fighter Johnny MacKay, the man assigned by President Ulysses S Grant (Hayden Rorke) to sort out the problems between the white settlers and […]

Mar, 19

The Legend of the Lone Ranger ** (1981, Klinton Spilsbury, Michael Horse, Christopher Lloyd, Matt Clark, Jason Robards) – Classic Movie Review 6161

‘Who was that masked man?’ ‘I don’t know, he was wearing a mask!’ With a half-hearted hearty heigh-ho Silver, Klinton Spilsbury dons Clayton Moore’s old mask as the Lone Ranger in director William A Fraker’s […]

Oct, 30

Hercules Unchained [Ercole e la regina di Lidia] **½ (1959, Steve Reeves, Sylva Koscina, Sylvia Lopez, Primo Carnera) – Classic Movie Review 923

Co-writer/director Pietro Francisci’s inevitable 1959 sequel to his and Italy’s 1957 international blockbuster hit Hercules brings muscleman Steve Reeves back with Sylva Koscina’s Iole, now the bride of Hercules, to fight the wicked Queen Omphale of […]

Mar, 16

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