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Lili **** (1953, Leslie Caron, Mel Ferrer, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Kurt Kasznar, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Amanda Blake, Alex Gerry) – Classic Movie Review 6196
Director-choreographer Charles Walters’s captivating, Oscar-winning 1953 MGM musical stars Leslie Caron as the naive French orphan and teenager Lili. She joins a travelling carnival as a waitress and meets a sad puppeteer called Paul (Mel Ferrer) […]
Nightmare Alley **** (1947, Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Helen Walker, Taylor Holmes, Mike Mazurki, Ian Keith) – Classic Movie Review 6128
Director Edmund Goulding’s haunting 1947 black and white film noir thriller Nightmare Alley is based on the novel by William Lindsay Gresham. It stars Tyrone Power as Stanton ‘Stan’ Carlisle, who becomes a carnival barker […]
The Funhouse *** (1981, Elizabeth Berridge, Kevin Conway, William Finley, Miles Chapin, Cooper Huckabee, Sylvia Miles, Shawn Carson, Jeanne Austin) – Classic Movie Review 5985
Directed by Tobe Hooper’s effectively nightmarish, teen-aimed 1981 American slasher horror film stars Elizabeth Berridge, Kevin Conway, William Finley, Cooper Huckabee, Miles Chapin, Largo Woodruff and Sylvia Miles, with Shawn Carson and Jeanne Austin. The film’s plot, in the […]
The Wagons Roll at Night *** (1941, Humphrey Bogart, Sylvia Sidney, Eddie Albert, Joan Leslie, Sig Ruman, Cliff Clark) – Classic Movie Review 5526
In 1941 Warner Bros recycle yet another of their old scripts – this time Kid Galahad (1937) stripped of its boxing theme – as a vehicle for their tough-guy star Humphrey Bogart, who is hardly […]
Gorilla at Large *** (1954, Cameron Mitchell, Anne Bancroft, Lee J Cobb, Lee Marvin, Raymond Burr) – Classic Movie Review 5184
‘You’ve always been this alert, Shaughnessy?’ – Lee J Cobb playing Detective Sergeant Garrison. ‘Always on my toes!’- Lee Marvin as Policeman Shaughnessy. ‘Well, get off ’em. You’re a cop, not a ballet dancer.’ – Detective Sergeant […]
High Rolling * (1977, Joseph Bottoms, Grigor Taylor, Wendy Hughes, John Clayton, Judy Davis) – Classic Movie Review 4997
Director Igor Auzins’s 1977 Australian buddy comedy drama stars Joseph Bottoms and Grigor Taylor as Tex and Alby, two fun-loving carnival men who set off on the Aussie road to Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast in […]
Roustabout **½ (1964, Elvis Presley, Barbara Stanwyck, Sue Ann Langdon, Joan Freeman, Leif Erickson, Raquel Welch, Teri Garr) – Classic Movie Review 4697
Director John Rich’s 1964 musical is a colourful but routine vehicle for Elvis Presley, though it is notable as one the few times that he had the support of a major star – Barbara Stanwyck. […]