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- Whispering Smith Hits London [Whispering Smith vs Scotland Yard] ** (1952, Richard Carlson, Greta Gynt, Herbert Lom, Rona Anderson, Alan Wheatley, Dora Bryan, Reginald Beckwith, Stanley Baker, Danny Green) – Classic Movie Review 12,886
- Miss MacTaggart Won’t Lie Down *** (1966, Barbara Mullen, Eric Woodburn, Andrew Downie) – Classic Movie Review 12,885
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Posts Tagged "circus"
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Trapeze *** (1956, Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Gina Lollobrigida, Katy Jurado, Thomas Gomez, Sidney James) – Classic Movie Review 5709
The alluring stars Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis and Gina Lollobrigida, the exciting trapeze stunts and the tasty circus atmosphere are the main attractions in the 1956 film Trapeze. ‘It happens there in mid-air…in all its […]
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 […]
The Great Waldo Pepper *** (1975, Robert Redford, Bo Svenson, Bo Brundin, Susan Sarandon, Geoffrey Lewis) – Classic Movie Review 5443
Director George Roy Hill’s 1975 period adventure movie showcases Robert Redford at his matinée idol peak, all gleaming and dashing, as a daredevil plane acrobat called Waldo Pepper. Hill, Redford’s director on The Sting (1973) and […]
Two Brothers *** (2004, Guy Pearce, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Freddie Highmore) – Classic Movie Review 5333
Co-producer/ co-writer/ director Jean-Jacques Annaud’s entertaining 2004 adventure is set in French Indochina in the 1920s. Guy Pearce stars as a hunter called Aidan McRory who has a fight on his hands when he unites […]
Captive Wild Woman ** (1943, Evelyn Ankers, Acquanetta, John Carradine, Martha Vickers, Milburn Stone, Lloyd Corrigan, Fay Helm) – Classic Movie Review 5239
Director Edward Dmytryk’s 1943 horror movie stars John Carradine as mad scientist Dr Sigmund Walters, who is experimenting in glandular research and transfuses a woman’s blood into the veins of Cheela, the circus ape. Then, […]
The Serpent’s Egg ** (1977, Liv Ullmann, David Carradine, Gert Fröbe, Heinz Bennent) – Classic Movie Review 4837
The Serpent’s Egg is the 1977 unhappy product of writer-director Ingmar Bergman’s tax-induced exile in Germany from his native Sweden. Despite the copious talent involved, we have seen it done better elsewhere. Its star David […]
Circus World [The Magnificent Showman] *** (1964, John Wayne, Rita Hayworth, Claudia Cardinale, John Smith, Lloyd Nolan, Richard Conte) – Classic Movie Review 4295
The Western meets the circus in director Henry Hathaway’s enjoyable old-style 1964 adventure movie, with John Wayne enjoying himself in a ripe and rich turn as circus owner Matt Masters leading a Wild West show through […]