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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance **** (1962, James Stewart, John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Vera Miles) – Classic Movie Review 2347

‘Together for the first time – James Stewart and John Wayne – in the masterpiece of four-time Academy Award winner John Ford.’ Well that’s the advertising. The reality is that, though director John Ford’s 1962 Western […]

Apr, 03

The Girl Can’t Help It **** (1956, Jayne Mansfield, Tom Ewell, Edmond O’Brien, Barry Gordon, Henry Jones, John Emery, Juanita Moore, Julie London) – Classic Movie Review 1,147

The enjoyable 1956 musical satirical farce The Girl Can’t Help It was one of the year’s biggest hits and made Jayne Mansfield a movie star. Julie London sings ‘Cry Me a River’; Gene Vincent performs […]

Apr, 26

The Killers ***** (1946, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien, Albert Dekker) – Classic Movie Review 1,137

Burt Lancaster makes an electrifying impact in his film début as the former boxer Ole ‘Swede’ Andreson, whose murder by two professional killers is probed in a series of flashbacks by an insurance investigator, in […]

Apr, 22

White Heat ***** (1949, James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Margaret Wycherly, Edmond O’Brien) – Classic Movie Review 147

James Cagney is brilliant as psychotic, epileptic gangster Cody Jarrett, fixated on his conniving mother Ma Jarrett (Margaret Wycherly), in the awesome 1949 gangster film White Heat. A perfectly cast James Cagney is brilliant as […]

Aug, 10

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