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The Shaggy Dog *** (1959, Fred MacMurray, Jean Hagen, Tommy Kirk) – Classic Movie Review 8471

Director Charles Barton’s 1959 black and white family fantasy The Shaggy Dog is a daft slapstick comedy tale from the far-off days when the Walt Disney studio had previously not yet so far made a slapstick […]

May, 15

The Shaggy D A ** (1976, Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette, Tim Conway, Keenan Wynn) – Classic Movie Review 8470

Director Robert Stevenson’s 1976 The Shaggy D A is Walt Disney’s belated sequel to the 1959 hit The Shaggy Dog, with Dean Jones in Tommy Kirk’s old part as the barking mad attorney who transforms […]

May, 15

Eyes in the Night *** (1942, Edward Arnold, Ann Harding, Donna Reed) – Classic Movie Review 8,371

The 1942 MGM black and white American crime mystery thriller film Eyes in the Night is a slightly unusual wartime whodunit starring Edward Arnold as a blind detective called Duncan ‘Mac’ Maclain.  Director Fred Zinnemann’s […]

Apr, 17

Day of the Animals ** (1977, Christopher George, Leslie Nielsen, Lynda Day George) – Classic Movie Review 8305

Aerosols have damaged the ozone layer and turned animals above the altitude of 5000 feet into man-killers preying on High Sierra hikers, in director William Girdler’s rather horrible 1977 action horror thriller shocker Day of […]

Mar, 28

The Fox and the Hound ** (1981, Mickey Rooney, Kurt Russell, Pearl Bailey) – Classic Movie Review 8193

Directors Ted Berman, Richard Rich and Art Stevens’s 1981 animated feature The Fox and the Hound is a mild Walt Disney cartoon about a fox’s friendship with a hunting dog, whose owner finds this unnatural, so […]

Mar, 03

Oliver & Company ** (1988, voices of Joey Lawrence, Billy Joel, Cheech Marin) – Classic Movie Review 8185

Director George Scribner’s 1988 animated feature Oliver & Company is colourful children’s entertainment as Oliver Twist is transplanted to America and ‘doggyfied’ in this animated Walt Disney tale of cute canines making mischief in New […]

Mar, 02

Dogman **** (2018, Marcello Fonte, Edoardo Pesce, Nunzia Schiano, Adamo Dionisi) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Matteo Garrone’s 2018 Italian neo-realist relationships drama, crime movie and revenge thriller Dogman has a simmering and then scalding impact. It comes from the director of the 2008 Gomorrah. Dogman is one heck of a strong, hard and […]

Dec, 10

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