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The Return of Ringo [Il Ritorno di Ringo] *** (1965, Giuliano Gemma, Fernando Sancho, Lorella De Luca) – Classic Movie Review 9325

Director Duccio Tessari’s impressive 1965 Italian-Spanish spaghetti Western The Return of Ringo [Il Ritorno di Ringo] is the quick sequel to his popular A Pistol for Ringo (1965) and again stars Giuliano Gemma (again billed […]

Jan, 30

Friendly Persuasion **** (1956, Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins, Marjorie Main) – Classic Movie Review 8,275

Gary Cooper and Dorothy McGuire head the worthy cast of the friendly 1956 movie Friendly Persuasion, a tale of the Quaker Birdwell family’s hardships in Southern Indiana in 1862 during the American Civil War. Gary […]

Mar, 20

Young Tom Edison *** (1940, Mickey Rooney, Fay Bainter, George Bancroft, Eugene Pallette) – Classic Movie Review 7914

Director Norman Taurog’s 1940 biopic Young Tom Edison stars the 19-year-old Mickey Rooney, who is conscientious in the star part in this plush, well-crafted first part of MGM’s two-film biography of the inventor Thomas Alva […]

Dec, 17

The Toast of New York *** (1937, Edward Arnold, Cary Grant, Frances Farmer, Jack Oakie, Donald Meek) – Classic Movie Review 7180

Director Rowland V Lee’s ambitious 1937 RKO Radio Pictures black and white comedy drama tackles the lively subject of 19th-century tycoonery in a fairy tale poor-man-makes-good biopic of Wall Street’s Jim Fisk – not a name on […]

Jun, 17

The Stranger Wore a Gun *** (1953, Randolph Scott, George Macready, Claire Trevor, Joan Weldon, Alfonso Bedoya, Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine) – Classic Movie Review 6687

Randolph Scott – ‘greater than ever in 3D’ – stars as Jeff Travis, a law-abiding citizen who spies for Quantrill’s raiders during the Civil War and then flees to Arizona, where he is forced into a […]

Feb, 14

Raintree County ** (1957, Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint, Nigel Patrick, Lee Marvin, Rod Taylor, Agnes Moorehead, Walter Abel) – Classic Movie Review 6,416

Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor and Eva Marie Saint star in MGM’s extravagant 1957 American epic historical romantic Western war film Raintree County, based on Ross Lockridge Jr’s 1948 novel.  A typecast Elizabeth Taylor settles in comfortably to a tailor-made role […]

Dec, 17

Santa Fe Trail **** (1940, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Raymond Massey, Ronald Reagan, Alan Hale Sr, William Lundigan, Van Heflin) – Classic Movie Review 4,750

Errol Flynn stars in Michael Curtiz’s 1940 American historical drama film Santa Fe Trail as officer Jeb Stuart, who is posted to Kansas in 1854 to help pacify the territory for railroad construction. The 1941 […]

Dec, 05

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