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Swamp Water **** (1941, Walter Brennan, Walter Huston, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Virginia Gilmore, John Carradine, Eugene Pallette, Ward Bond) – Classic Movie Review 8976

Master French film-maker Jean Renoir’s 1941 American début Swamp Water [The Man Who Came Back], made while he was in wartime exile from German-occupied France, is an unusual, dramatic thriller, set in Georgia swamps, where […]

Oct, 12

Eight on the Lam [Eight on the Run] ** (1967, Bob Hope, Phyllis Diller, Jonathan Winters, Shirley Eaton, Jill St John) – Classic Movie Review 8335

Veteran director George Marshall’s 1966 comedy Eight on the Lam [Eight on the Run] stars Bob Hope as a widowed bank clerk who goes on the lam (run) with his seven kids (including his real-life […]

Apr, 05

Castle on the Hudson [Years Without Days] ** (1940, John Garfield, Ann Sheridan, Pat O’Brien, Burgess Meredith, Henry O’Neill, Jerome Cowan) – Classic Movie Review 8022

John Garfield enjoys an acting field day as mobster Tommy Gordon, the gem-crook gangster who refuses to participate in a Sing Sing prison break because it is his unlucky day, in director Anatole Litvak’s 1940 […]

Jan, 16

Breakout *** (1975, Charles Bronson, Robert Duvall, John Huston, Sheree North, Randy Quaid, Jill Ireland) – Classic Movie Review 7780

Director Tom Gries’s 1975 movie Breakout is a strongly cast, decent action thriller and a good star vehicle for Charles Bronson, who plays Nick Colton, a pilot paid to rescue innocent patsy Jay Wagner (Robert Duvall) […]

Nov, 12

The Hoose-Gow *** (1929, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Tiny Sandford, Charlie Hall, Sam Lufkin) – Classic Movie Review 7403

‘Neither Mr Laurel nor Mr Hardy had any thoughts of doing wrong. As a matter of fact, they had no thoughts of any kind.’ Director James Parrott and producer Hal Roach’s 1929 The Hoose-Gow is an amusing, outdoors […]

Aug, 05

Riders of Destiny *** (1933, John Wayne, Cecilia Parker, Forrest Taylor, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Al St John) – Classic Movie Review 7128

The 26-year-old John Wayne plays ‘Singin’ Sandy’ Saunders (but dubbed, with the singing voice courtesy of Smith Ballew), a singing undercover US Government agent who battles against stagecoach robbing villains, and in particular bad guy James […]

Jun, 07

Bureau of Missing Persons *** (1933, Bette Davis, Lewis Stone, Pat O’Brien, Glenda Farrell) – Classic Movie Review 6857

Director Roy Del Ruth’s 1933 Warner Bros crime melodrama quickly made thriller stars Bette Davis as Norma Roberts, who is looking for her husband, and then she is being sought by Chicago police for his murder. […]

Mar, 26

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