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- Perro Perro *** (2025, Germán Flood, Juan Ramos) – Classic Movie Review 13,907
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- Betrayed Women * (1955, Carole Mathews, Beverly Michaels, Peggy Knudsen, Tom Drake, Sara Haden, John Dierkes, Esther Dale) – Classic Movie Review 13,904
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Bullet for a Badman *** (1964, Audie Murphy, Darren McGavin, Ruta Lee) – Classic Movie Review 7715
Director R G Springsteen’s lusty 1964 B-movie Western Bullet for a Badman stars Audie Murphy as Logan Keliher, a gun-slinging lawman gone good and peaceful, who is forced for the sake of his wife and a […]
Brown of Harvard *** (1926, William Haines, Ralph Bushman, Mary Brian, Jack Pickford) – Classic Movie Review 7640
Director Jack Conway’s 1926 MGM silent drama Brown of Harvard stars William Haines, Jack Pickford and Mary Brian and is based on the hit 1906 Broadway play by Rida Johnson Young, who also co-wrote the popular music for the play with Melvin Ellis. Haines does well […]
The Rounders *** (1965, Glenn Ford, Henry Fonda, Sue Ane Langdon, Chill Wills, Edgar Buchanan) – Classic Movie Review 7627
Director Burt Kennedy’s 1965 The Rounders is an appealingly relaxed, humorous-toned Western with Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda both on excellent form as Ben and Howdy, a fairly dim-seeming pair of aging present-day bronco busters who […]
The House with a Clock in Its Walls ** (2018, Jack Black, Cate Blanchett, Owen Vaccaro, Kyle MacLachlan) – Movie Review
With its thin, rather lame story, The House with a Clock in Its Walls is not great for adults but it is well produced in retro style, quite funny, quite scary, and ideal for its […]
5 Against the House **** (1955, Guy Madison, Kim Novak, Brian Keith, Alvy Moore, Kerwin Mathews, William Conrad) – Classic Movie Review 7612
Director Phil Karlson’s commendable 1955 black and white film noir crime thriller 5 Against the House is especially suspenseful and inventively written. It is notable as an early example of a filmed heist and depiction […]
The Walking Stick ** (1970, David Hemmings, Samantha Eggar, Phyllis Calvert, Ferdy Mayne, Francesca Annis, Bridget Turner, Emlyn Williams, Dudley Sutton) – Classic Movie Review 7585
Director Eric Till’s 1970 British movie The Walking Stick is an only middling suspense thriller. But there is very decent playing by David Hemmings as a handsome, smooth London crook called Leigh Hartley and Samantha […]
Day of the Outlaw *** (1959, Robert Ryan, Burl Ives, Tina Louise, Alan Marshal, Venetia Stevenson, David Nelson, Nehemiah Persoff) – Classic Movie Review 7515
The 1959 Western film Day of the Outlaw stars Robert Ryan, Burl Ives, Tina Louise and Venetia Stevenson. It is directed by Andre DeToth, making his final Western. Philip Yordan called his script ‘one of […]