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The Charge of the Light Brigade **** (1936, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Patric Knowles, Donald Crisp, C Aubrey Smith, David Niven, Henry Stephenson, Nigel Bruce) – Classic Movie Review 4723

Director Michael Curtiz’s tremendous 1936 gung-ho action adventure film is supposedly based on Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem about the British army’s heroic cavalry charge into disaster at Balaklava in the Crimean War in 1854. ‘Half […]

Nov, 30

Nine Men *** (1943, Jack Lambert, Gordon Jackson, Frederick Piper, Grant Sutherland, Bill Blewitt) – Classic Movie Review 4691

Writer-director Harry Watt’s 1943 realist-style World War Two war picture is minor but tense, interesting and impressive. It stars Jack Lambert as Sergeant Watson, Gordon Jackson as the Young ‘un, Frederick Piper as Banger Hill, […]

Nov, 24

The Last of the Mohicans *** (1936, Randolph Scott, Binnie Barnes, Bruce Cabot, Henry Wilcoxon, Heather Angel, Hugh Buckler, Philip Reed, Robert Barrat) – Classic Movie Review 4663

Randolph Scott makes a sterling hero as the noble frontiersman Hawkeye in director George B Seitz’s exciting, lovingly crafted 1936 adventure movie based on James Fenimore Cooper’s classic tale of the French-Native American battles in the […]

Nov, 18

Mohawk * (1956, Scott Brady, Rita Gam, Neville Brand, Ted de Corsia) – Classic Movie Review 3496

Director Kurt Neumann’s 1956 Western adventure is a soppy, risible, penny-pinching little movie with more accent on love tangles than on gun-slinging action. It pushes its luck by re-using extensive archive footage from the outstanding John […]

Mar, 24

Centurion *** (2010, Michael Fassbender, Dominic West, Olga Kurylenko, Imogen Poots, Ulrich Thomsen, David Morrissey, Dave Legeno, Paul Freeman) – Classic Movie Review 3440

Michael Fassbender’s Centurion Quintus Dias, Dominic West’s General Titus Flavius Virilus and a bunch of Roman Centurions of the legendary Ninth Legion are over here in the good old Britain of 117AD, where life is nasty, […]

Mar, 02

The Indian Fighter ***½ (1955, Kirk Douglas, Elsa Martinelli, Walter Matthau, Diana Douglas, Lon Chaney Jnr, Alan Hale Jnr, Elisha Cook Jnr) – Classic Movie Review 3401

Director André de Toth’s upper middle-of-the-range 1955 Western provides a good star role for Kirk Douglas, who plays The Indian Fighter conducting the wagon train across hostile Sioux land when he gets involved with a […]

Feb, 23

Rio Grande ***** (1950, John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, Ben Johnson, Claude Jarman Jnr, Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jnr, Chill Wills, J Carrol Naish, Victor McLaglen) – Classic Movie Review 2352

Director John Ford makes the 1950 closing episode in his US Cavalry trilogy third time lucky and essential old Hollywood viewing. John Wayne again stars, this time as a Cavalry officer dealing with the plundering […]

Apr, 03

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