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The Shiralee **** (1957, Peter Finch, Dana Wilson, Elizabeth Sellars) – Classic Movie Review 9656

Director Leslie Norman’s 1957 British Australian Western film The Shiralee is produced by Michael Balcon, made by Ealing Studios, and stars Peter Finch, Dana Wilson and Elizabeth Sellars. It is based on the debut full-length […]

Apr, 20

The River Rat *** (1984, Tommy Lee Jones, Brian Dennehy, Martha Plimpton) – Classic Movie Review 9655

Writer-director Thomas [Tom] Rickman’s powerful 1984 Mississippi-set drama The River Rat is all about the growing love between Billy McCain (Tommy Lee Jones) and his plucky 12-year-old daughter Jonsy (Martha Plimpton), who meet for the […]

Apr, 19

Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage *** (1986, Joan Hickson, Paul Eddington, Cheryl Campbell, Robert Lang, Polly Adams) – Classic Movie Review 9,625

The 1986 TV movie Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage again stars Joan Hickson, who takes on her fifth case as the BBC’s Miss Marple, based on Agatha Christie’s first novel to feature Miss […]

Apr, 10

Lure of the Wilderness *** (1952, Jean Peters, Jeffrey Hunter, Constance Smith, Walter Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 8978

Jean Renoir’s 1941 black and white American début movie Swamp Water is remade here in director Jean Negulesco’s 1952 romantic adventure drama Lure of the Wilderness with the definite advantage of Edward Cronjager’s excellent Technicolor […]

Oct, 13

The Third Secret ** (1964, Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Richard Attenborough, Pamela Franklin, Rachel Kempson, Diane Cilento Margaret Leighton, Paul Rogers, Judi Dench) – Classic Movie Review 8000

Director Charles Crichton’s 1964 The Third Secret is a muddled and ponderous suspense thriller that is comprised of a number of short stories joined together by the plot device of having a prominent psychiatrist’s daughter […]

Jan, 11

Tiger of the Seven Seas [La Tigre dei Sette Mare] ** (1962, Gianna Maria Canale, Anthony Steel, Maria Grazia Spina, Andrea Aureli, Carlo Ninchi, John Kitzmiller) – Classic Movie Review 7964

Gianna Maria Canale stars in director Luigi Capuano’s tolerably entertaining 1962 dubbed Italian feminist swashbuckling adventure movie Tiger of the Seven Seas [La Tigre dei Sette Mare] as Consuelo, a pirate captain’s daughter who inherits […]

Dec, 31

The Female Animal ** (1958, Hedy Lamarr, Jane Powell, Jan Sterling, George Nader, James Gleason, Jerry Paris, Ann Doran, Gregg Palmer) – Classic Movie Review 7735

‘It is said that when a woman fights for a man, she is like an ANIMAL!’ Director Harry Keller’s kitsch 1957 film noir romantic melodrama The Female Animal stars Hedy Lamarr in her last movie, […]

Nov, 01

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