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Outcast of the Islands *** (1951, Ralph Richardson, Trevor Howard, Robert Morley, Wendy Hiller, Kerima) – Classic Movie Review 8788
Thanks mainly to Trevor Howard’s commanding performance, producer-director Carol Reed has some success in his 1951 adventure Outcast of the Islands filming Joseph Conrad’s novel about a corrupt clerk who fails in his Singapore job […]
A Breed Apart *** (1984, Rutger Hauer, Powers Boothe. Kathleen Turner, Donald Pleasence) – Classic Movie Review 8758
Director Philippe Mora’s 1984 A Breed Apart is a fascinating, intelligent movie and stars a fine quartet in Rutger Hauer, Powers Boothe. Kathleen Turner, and Donald Pleasence. Avaricious billionaire collector J P Whittier (Pleasence) hires […]
Bird of Paradise ** (1932, Dolores del Rio, Joel McCrea, John Halliday) – Classic Movie Review 8365
A very young and handsome looking Joel McCrea stars as adventurer Johnny Baker, who marries lovely South Sea island princess Luana (Dolores Del Rio) when he visits her island, in director King Vidor’s unpersuasive, silly […]
Age of Consent *** (1969, James Mason, Helen Mirren, Jack MacGowran) – Classic Movie Review 8352
The 24-year-old Helen Mirren gets to star with James Mason and be directed by Michael Powell. The 1969 Australian romantic comedy drama Age of Consent is a straggler from the dog days of the glittering […]
It’s Alive III: Island of the Alive *** (1987, Michael Moriarty, Karen Black, Laurene Landon) – Classic Movie Review 8296
Michael Moriarty stars as the monstrous tot’s daddy Stephen Jarvis, who tries to stop the killing of all killer babies segregated on a desert island, in writer-director Larry Cohen’s 1987 horror second sequel It’s Alive […]
Queimada [Burn!] **** (1969, Marlon Brando, Evaristo Márquez, Renato Salvatori) – Classic Movie Review 7962
Director Gillo Pontecorvo’s 1968 Queimada [Burn!] [Battle of the Antilles] is part epic adventure-drama, part critical account of British colonialism. Pontecorvo’s sequel to his 1965 The Battle of Algiers tells the story of the British […]
The Edge of the World **** (1937, Niall MacGinnis, Belle Chrystall, John Laurie, Finlay Currie, Eric Berry ) – Classic Movie Review 7907
Writer-director Michael Powell puts heart and soul into The Edge of the World, his deeply felt and involving 1937 black and white film about life on Hirta, a bleak, remote Shetland Island, an Outer Hebridean […]