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The Amazing Mr X [The Spiritualist] *** (1948, Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari, Cathy O’Donnell, Richard Carlson) – Classic Movie Review 3316

Director Bernard Vorhaus’s intriguing and effectively handled 1948 B-movie film noir mystery thriller stars Lynn Bari as a widow called Christine Faber, who is trying to put her life back together two years after the accidental death […]

Feb, 03

The Best Years of Our Lives ***** (1946, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Myrna Loy, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo, Cathy O’Donnell, Hoagy Carmichael, Harold Russell, Gladys George) – Classic Movie Review 2437

Director William Wyler’s 1946 triumph The Best Years of Our Lives won seven Oscars including Best Picture. It also won the 1947 Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture and the 1948 BAFTA Film Award for […]

Apr, 30

Detective Story **** (1951, Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Cathy O’Donnell, Lee Grant) – Classic Movie Review 2385

Producer-director William Wyler’s 1951 sturdy and thoughtful film noir crime drama provides a great role for Kirk Douglas as hard-nosed cop Detective Jim McLeod. The story finds him confronting a sea of troubles and an ill […]

Apr, 13

The Man from Laramie **** (1955, James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp, Cathy O’Donnell, Alex Nicol) – Classic Movie Review 2050

Director Anthony Mann’s superb 1955 Western is the fifth and final fruit of his splendid collaboration with James Stewart. Stewart plays The Man from Laramie, Will Lockhart, the stranger who rides into town looking for […]

Jan, 04

They Live by Night ***** (1948, Farley Granger, Cathy O’Donnell, Howard DaSilva, Jay C Flippen) – Classic Movie Review 1585

This beautiful, supremely sensitive, highly emotional 1948 poetic film noir about doomed lovers on the run is cult co-writer/director Nicholas Ray’s superb first movie. The prototype for the whole couple on the run genre, it is way […]

Aug, 23

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