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- State Secret [The Great Manhunt] **** (1950, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Glynis Johns, Jack Hawkins, Herbert Lom) – Classic Movie Review 13,570
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The Great Sinner *** (1949, Gregory Peck, Walter Huston, Ava Gardner, Agnes Moorehead, Ethel Barrymore, Melvyn Douglas, Frank Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 5429
Gregory Peck stars as a young writer who rescues a countess (Ava Gardner) from gambling but gets the disease himself as a compulsive gambler, in The Great Sinner (1949). Unfortunately director Robert Siodmak’s fascinating […]
Saratoga *** (1937, Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore, Frank Morgan, Walter Pidgeon, Una Merkel, Margaret Hamilton, Hattie McDaniel) – Classic Movie Review 4981
Director Jack Conway’s sad and troubled 1937 MGM movie Saratoga is tragically the last film of the young blonde bombshell Jean Harlow, and marks the last pairing of Clark Gable and Jean Harlow in their […]
California Split **** (1974, George Segal, Elliott Gould, Gwen Welles, Ann Prentiss, Barbara Ruick, Bert Remsen, Jeff Goldblum) – Classic Movie Review 5026
Director Robert Altman’s fine, funny and revealing 1974 comedy character drama stars the very much on-form Elliott Gould and George Segal as wisecracking free spirit Charlie Waters and down on his luck gambler Bill Denny, who are […]
Hardball *** (2001, Keanu Reeves, Diane Lane, John Hawkes, Michael McGlone, Michael B Jordan, D B Sweeney) – Classic Movie Review 4888
In this pleasant, good-hearted 2001 sports drama film, Keanu Reeves scores a home run as Conor O’Neill, who gets into a mess scalping tickets, gambling and drinking. He so is desperate for a loan from […]
Song of the Thin Man *** (1947, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Dean Stockwell, Keenan Wynn) – Classic Movie Review 3685
Director Edward Buzzell’s 1947 MGM comedy crime thriller Song of the Thin Man plays a bitter-sweet song, as it is farewell to married couple sleuths Nick and Nora Charles in their sixth and final MGM […]
The Phenix City Story **** (1955, Richard Kiley, Edward Andrews, John McIntire, Kathryn Crosby) – Classic Movie Review 3542
The Phenix City Story is high up on the hefty list of popular Fifties films devoted to exposing the mob activities of ‘the syndicate’ in one of America’s cities. Director Phil Karlson’s atmospheric and exciting […]
It Happened at the World’s Fair *** (1963, Elvis Presley, Joan O’Brien, Gary Lockwood, Vicky Tiu, Yvonne Craig, Kurt Russell) – Classic Movie Review 2,712
The smooth 1963 musical comedy film It Happened at the World’s Fair stars Elvis Presley and Gary Lockwood as crop-duster plane fliers, and Joan O’Brien as Elvis’s girlfriend, with Kurt Russell in his film debut. […]