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The Keeper ** (1976, Christopher Lee, Tell Schreiber, Sally Gray, Ross Vezarian, Ian Tracey, Bing Jensen) – Classic Movie Review 11,600

Writer-director Tom Y Drake’s 1976 low-budget Canadian movie The Keeper is a modestly made, comfortably familiar horror film with the admirable Christopher Lee as the sinister, crippled asylum head The Keeper and an ancient plot about […]

Sep, 26

Anne of Green Gables *** (1934, Anne Shirley, Tom Brown, O P Heggie, Helen Westley) – Classic Movie Review 10,479

‘FICTION’S MOST BELOVED HEROINE REALLY LIVES!’ Director George Nichols Jr’s 1934 RKO Radio Pictures black and white drama Anne of Green Gables is a lovely adaptation of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s children’s classic about an imaginative […]

Oct, 29

Man in the Wilderness **** (1971, Richard Harris, John Huston, Henry Wilcoxon, John Bindon, Prunella Ransome, Henry Wilcoxon, Ben Carruthers, Percy Herbert, Dennis Waterman) – Classic Movie Review 9122

Director Richard C Sarafian’s 1971 adventure Man in the Wilderness is a gory but involving great outdoors tale propelled with a rousing turn from Richard Harris as Zachary Bass, a beaver hunter marooned in the […]

Dec, 03

Matthias et Maxime [Matthias & Maxime] **** (2019, Xavier Dolan, Gabriel D’Almeida Freitas, Harris Dickinson, Anne Dorval) – Movie Review

Gabriel D’Almeida Freitas and Xavier Dolan star as Matthias & Maxime, which finds writer-director Xavier Dolan in romantic mode, edgy, unconventional romantic mode perhaps, but definitely romantic mode. The French-Canadian film, mostly in French focuses […]

Oct, 02

Canadian Pacific ** (1949, Randolph Scott, Jane Wyatt, Nancy Olson, J Carrol Naish, Victor Jory, Robert Barrat) – Classic Movie Review 8950

Director Edwin L Marin’s solid, busy, sometimes impressive minor 1949 Western movie Canadian Pacific stars an ideal Randolph Scott as manly railroad surveyor Tom Andrews, who discovers the pass through the Rockies, fights Indians and […]

Sep, 29

Canadian Bacon ** (1995, John Candy, Alan Alda, Rhea Perlman, Kevin Pollak, Rip Torn) – Classic Movie Review 8949

The good cast is mostly wasted in writer-director Michael Moore’s largely misfiring 1995 satire Canadian Bacon – but then it would have been much, much worse without them. Alan Alda is quite funny as the […]

Sep, 29

Campbell’s Kingdom ** (1957, Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Michael Craig, Barbara Murray, James Robertson Justice, Athene Seyler, Mary Merrall) – Classic Movie Review 8683

Director Ralph Thomas’s rugged attempt to make a British Western set in the Canadian Rockies – the 1957 Campbell’s Kingdom – stars Dirk Bogarde as noble Englishman Bruce Campbell, who is the claimant to a […]

Jul, 08

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