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Will Penny **** (1968, Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett, Donald Pleasence, Lee Majors, Bruce Dern, Anthony Zerbe, Clifton James, Ben Johnson, William Schallert, Slim Pickens, G D Spradlin) – Classic Movie Review 4535

Co-producer/ writer/ director Tom Gries’s intensely burning 1968 Western is excellent, with a quietly powerful story about Charlton Heston’s aging, saddle-sore cowboy Will Penny, who gets a job on a large cattle spread and finds […]

Oct, 26

Swamp Woman * (1941, Ann Corio, Jack La Rue, Mary Hull) – Classic Movie Review 3,980

‘She lived daringly, loved savagely’. The amusingly campy 1941 poverty row black and white thriller film Swamp Woman stars prominent burlesque striptease artist Ann Corio. Director Elmer Clifton’s 1941 black and white thriller film Swamp […]

Jul, 05

Beast from Haunted Cave ** (1959, Michael Forest, Sheila Noonan, Frank Wolff) – Classic Movie Review 3919

Monte Hellman made his film directorial debut with Beast from Haunted Cave (1959). It is shot in Deadwood, South Dakota, and Lead, South Dakota, for its mine scenes after the local Chamber of Commerce offered financial incentives to […]

Jul, 02

A Night at the Opera ***** (1935, Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Margaret Dumont, Sig Ruman, Allan Jones, Kitty Carlisle) – Classic Movie Review 3061

Otis B Driftwood: ‘It’s all right, that’s in every contract. That’s what they call a sanity clause.’ Fiorello: ‘You can’t fool me! There ain’t no Santay Claus!’ Director Sam Wood’s hilarious 1935 Marx Brothers comedy […]

Nov, 14

The Parent Trap ** (1998, Lindsay Lohan, Dennis Quaid, Natasha Richardson) – Classic Movie Review 2861

Director Nancy Meyers’s 1998 remake for Walt Disney of its own 1961 Hayley Mills hit The Parent Trap stars a pre-troubled era young Lindsay Lohan. It is based on the 1949 novel Das Doppelte Löttchen […]

Aug, 29

Cabin Fever *** (2003, Rider Strong, Jordan Ladd, James DeBello, Cerina Vincent, Jeoy Kern) – Classic Movie Review 2731

Rider Strong (Paul), Jordan Ladd (Karen), James DeBello (Bert), Cerina Vincent (Marcy) and Joey Kern (Jeff) star as five foolishly intrepid teens who set out for a lonely woodland cabin, but are struck down by a […]

Jul, 22

Secret Window *** (2004, Johnny Depp, Maria Bello, John Turturro) – Classic Movie Review 1627

Writer-director David Koepp’s erratically amusing 2004 thriller has the right star in Johnny Depp, who puts a gloss of polish on Stephen King’s chiller as Mort Rainey, an author afflicted by a bad hairstyle, writer’s […]

Sep, 02

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