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Those Redheads from Seattle ** (1953, Rhonda Fleming, Gene Barry, Agnes Moorehead, Teresa Brewer) – Classic Movie Review 10,552

‘The Big 3D Musical Bonanza!’ In 1953 Rhonda Fleming shot the second of her three films in 3D, Those Redheads From Seattle, with Gene Barry, for Pine-Thomas Productions, following Inferno, with Robert Ryan at Fox. […]

Nov, 17

The Shanghai Gesture *** (1941, Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Victor Mature, Ona Munson) – Classic Movie Review 8924

Director Josef von Sternberg’s stylish directorial flourishes are much in evidence in his exotic 1941 black and white film noir-style crime drama The Shanghai Gesture, a tastefully cleaned-up version of John Colson’s once shocking play, […]

Sep, 21

To Paris with Love ** (1955, Alec Guinness, Odile Versois, Vernon Gray, Elina Labourdette, Jacques François, Austin Trevor) – Classic Movie Review 7753

Director Robert Hamer’s 1954 British comedy drama To Paris with Love stars Alec Guinness as the ageing, greying British widower Colonel Sir Edgar Fraser who takes his grown-up son John Fraser (Vernon Gray) off to […]

Nov, 04

Entebbe [7 Days in Entebbe] * (2018, Rosamund Pike, Daniel Brühl, Eddie Marsan, Denis Ménochet, Lior Ashkenazi) – Movie Review

Entebbe (aka 7 Days in Entebbe) recounts the story of Operation Entebbe, the Israeli commandos’ daring 1976 counter-terrorist hostage-rescue operation in Uganda, after the terrorists hijack an Air France flight en route from Tel Aviv to […]

May, 15

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri ***** (2017, Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, John Hawkes, Peter Dinklage) – Movie Review 

Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell give dazzlingly brilliant performances in writer-director Martin McDonagh’s supremely dark and dangerous black comedy crime drama. McDonagh sure does like living dangerously, as he previously showed in In Bruges (2008) and Seven […]

Oct, 15

London Has Fallen ** (2016, Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett) – Movie Review

Gerard Butler and Aaron Eckhart are back from Olympus Has Fallen (2013) as American Secret Service man Mike Banning and the US President he’s protecting in this surprise sequel to the surprise hit. Banning’s thinking of […]

Mar, 04

Rich and Strange ** (1931, Henry Kendall, Joan Barry, Percy Marmont) – Classic Movie Review 460

This 1931 Alfred Hitchcock early sound film is surprisingly obvious, thin and conservative-minded, so it is a bit of a bad surprise from this director. It plays like a Victorian melodrama with a moral and […]

Nov, 30

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