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Robbery Under Arms *** (1957, Peter Finch, David McCallum, Ronald Lewis, Laurence Naismith) – 5793
Director Jack Lee’s 1957 Rank Organisation historical action adventure stars London-born Peter Finch, who returns to Australia, where he was brought up after the age of 10, to play, dashingly and appealingly, the notorious Captain Starlight, […]
Seven Keys to Baldpate *** (1947, Phillip Terry, Jacqueline White, Eduardo Ciannelli, Margaret Lindsay, Arthur Shields, Jimmy Conlin, Tony Barrett, Richard Powers) – Classic Movie Review 5752
Director Lew Landers’s 1947 RKO Radio Pictures American mystery thriller film Seven Keys to Baldpate is the seventh attempt to film the Earl Derr Biggers novel, in an attractive movie that is quite tense, pacy […]
Elmer Gantry **** (1960, Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Shirley Jones, Dean Jagger) – Classic Movie Review 5688
Writer-director Richard Brooks’s barnstorming 1960 drama triumphed at the Academy Awards with three Oscar wins – for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Actress in a Supporting Role and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. […]
House of Sand and Fog **** (2003, Jennifer Connelly, Ben Kingsley, Ron Eldard, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Jonathan Ahdout, Kim Dickens, Frances Fisher) – Classic Movie Review 5646
Two people try to follow their own idea of the American dream – with disastrous results. Co-writer/ producer/ director Vadim Perelman’s superlative, provocative 2003 movie version of a hit novel by André Dubus III is […]
My Cousin Rachel ***½ (2017, Rachel Weisz, Sam Claflin, Iain Glen, Holliday Grainger) – Movie Review
Writer-director Roger Michell’s remake of Daphne Du Maurier’s novel, first filmed with Richard Burton and Olivia de Havilland in 1952, also as My Cousin Rachel, is a thoroughly enjoyable dark romance, successfully bringing out the enduring appeal of the […]
The Spoilers *** (1930, Gary Cooper, William Boyd, Betty Compson, Kay Johnson) – Classic Movie Review 5523
‘ The he-man hero who takes what he wants – gold or women!’ Director Edwin Carewe’s rousing 1930 Western is the third version (there are five) – and first talkie – of the 1906 Rex […]
Tammy, Tell Me True ** (1961, Sandra Dee, John Gavin, Charles Drake, Virginia Grey, Beulah Bondi) – Classic Movie Review 5513
Director Harry Keller’s 1961 follow-up film to the first hit Tammy and the Bachelor has Sandra Dee taking over from Debbie Reynolds as kind-hearted Tammy Tyree as she smirks and schmoozes her way through college, […]