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Black Bart [Black Bart, Highwayman] *** (1948, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea, Jeffrey Lynn) – Classic Movie Review 11,814

The 1948 Technicolor Western film Black Bart [Black Bart, Highwayman] tells the story of celebrated dancer Lola Montez (Yvonne De Carlo) falling for real-life bandit Charles E Boles, aka Black Bart (Dan Duryea), during her […]

Dec, 30

The Lady and the Bandit ** (1951, Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina, Suzanne Dalbert, Tom Tully, Alan Mowbray, John Williams) – Classic Movie Review 9378

Director Ralph Murphy’s 1951 black and white adventure The Lady and the Bandit [Dick Turpin’s Ride] stars Louis Hayward, who is reasonably well cast as highwayman Dick Turpin, in this jolly, if not brilliant, American-made, […]

Feb, 13

The Wicked Lady ** (1983, Faye Dunaway, Alan Bates, John Gielgud, Denholm Elliott, Prunella Scales, Oliver Tobias, Glynis Barber, Joan Hickson) – Classic Movie Review 7773

In 1983, director Michael Winner remakes the old 1945 Gainsborough Studios bodice-ripper The Wicked Lady, with all the excesses he was famed for. It is an old-fashioned costume romp spiced up with sex and nudity. […]

Nov, 11

The Wicked Lady **** (1945, Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Patricia Roc, Griffith Jones, Michael Rennie) – Classic Movie Review 1335

The 1945 British costume melodrama film The Wicked Lady stars Margaret Lockwood as a nobleman’s wife who becomes a highwayman for the excitement. It enjoyed incredible popularity when 18,400,000 patrons paid to see it. Writer-director […]

Jun, 18

Plunkett & MacLeane **** (1999, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller, Ken Stott, Liv Tyler, Alan Cumming, Michael Gambon) – Classic Film Review 792

Here’s an oddity: an old-style highwayman adventure yarn with a flashy 90s new-style gloss and a welter of anachronisms on the soundtrack, with present-day street language and rock music. The flash is put on it […]

Feb, 02

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