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The Scotland Yard Mystery [The Living Dead] *** (1934, Gerald du Maurier, George Curzon, Grete Natzler, Belle Chrystall, Leslie Perrins) – Classic Movie Review 10,049

Directed with some flair by Thomas Bentley and acted with much enthusiasm, the vintage 1934 thriller The Scotland Yard Mystery [re-tilted The Living Dead in the US] is the entertaining story of a battle between […]

Jul, 17

Undercurrent *** (1946, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum) – Classic Movie Review 10,039

‘An Irresistible Force That Draws a Man and Woman Together!’ ‘Please Don’t Tell The Terrific Ending!’ A considerably aged, craggy-looking Robert Taylor is rewarded for his three years’ wartime US Navy service with a good […]

Jul, 15

Easy to Love *** (1934, Genevieve Tobin, Adolphe Menjou, Mary Astor, Edward Everett Horton, Guy Kibbee, Patricia Ellis, Hugh Herbert) – Classic Movie Review 9897

Director William Keighley’s 1934 Warner Bros Pre-Code black and white film Easy to Love is an easy-going, skatty romantic comedy, in which a suspicious wife Carol (Genevieve Tobin) pretends that she is having an affair […]

Jun, 12

The Four Just Men [The Secret Four] **** (1939, Hugh Sinclair, Griffith Jones, Francis L Sullivan, Frank Lawton, Anna Lee, Alan Napier, Basil Sydney) – Classic Movie Review 9532

Director Walter Forde’s 1939 British Ealing Studios black and white movie The Four Just Men [The Secret Four] is a spiffing film of Edgar Wallace’s famed spy thriller story about four righteous vigilante Brits (Hugh […]

Mar, 20

Too Many Girls *** (1940, Lucille Ball, Richard Carlson, Ann Miller, Desi Arnaz, Eddie Bracken, Van Johnson) – Classic Movie Review 9529

George Abbott’s 1940 RKO musical comedy Too Many Girls is the movie where Lucille Ball first met Desi Arnaz on the set  – and he said ‘I love Lucy’. Gorgeous gals and gaiety are promised. […]

Mar, 19

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

Hell’s Half Acre *** (1954, Wendell Corey, Evelyn Keyes, Elsa Lanchester, Nancy Gates, Marie Windsor) – Classic Movie Review 8917

‘THROUGH THE TWISTING ALLEYS A WOMAN SEEKS HER MAN AND COLD-BLOODED KILLERS AWAIT HER TOO!’ Producer-director John H Auer’s 1954 black and white drama Hell’s Half Acre from humble Republic Pictures stars Wendell Corey as […]

Sep, 19

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