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The Mole People * (1956, John Agar, Cynthia Patrick, Hugh Beaumont, Alan Napier, Nestor Paiva) – Classic Movie Review 3,497

The creaky old black and white 1956 chiller film The Mole People stars John Agar as a scientist who starts an expedition to a lost underground city of albino inhabitants who have made slaves of […]

Mar, 24

Sands of Iwo Jima **** (1949, John Wayne, John Agar, Adele Mara, Forrest Tucker, Arthur Franz, Richard Jaeckel, Wally Cassel, Richard Webb, Julie Bishop) – Classic Movie Review 3183

Director Allan Dwan’s 1949 war movie Sands of Iwo Jima is a very free dramatisation of the World War Two Battle of Iwo Jima, in which more than 5,000 Americans lost their lives for a small […]

Dec, 23

The Daughter of Dr Jekyll *** (1957, John Agar, Gloria Talbott, Arthur Shields, John Dierkes) – Classic Movie Review 2764

‘Blood-hungry spawn of the world’s most bestial fiend!’ Director Edgar G Ulmer’s 1957 horror movie intriguingly merges the Jekyll and Hyde and werewolf stories. Gloria Talbott stars as Janet Smith in this tale of a […]

Aug, 01

Fort Apache ***** (1948, John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple, Pedro Armendariz, Ward Bond) – Classic Movie Review 2349

The opening 1948 film in director John Ford’s deservedly renowned and celebrated US Cavalry trilogy with star John Wayne also stars Henry Fonda as a bitter, arrogant, tough lieutenant colonel (based on General Custer) who […]

Apr, 03

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon ***** (1949, John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar,Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jnr, Victor McLaglen, Mildred Natwick) – Classic Movie Review 2348

Director John Ford is working at top level here in 1949 in this thrilling central episode of his US Cavalry trilogy with John Wayne, started with Fort Apache in 1948. Cinematographer Winton C Hoch won […]

Apr, 03

Revenge of the Creature *** (1955, John Agar, Lori Nelson, John Bromfield, Nestor Paiva) – Classic Movie Review 1932

‘Weird Monster Escapes! Terror Seizes City!’ The 1955 monster movie Revenge of the Creature brings scientists back to the Amazon’s Black Lagoon, where the Gill Man (Ricou Browning/ Tom Hennesy) is captured and then transported […]

Dec, 07

Tarantula *** (1955, John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G Carroll) – Classic Movie Review 1,514

Jack Arnold’s fondly regarded 1955 monster movie Tarantula is one of the key Fifties chillers, celebrated in Richard O’Brien’s musical The Rocky Horror Show: ‘I knew Leo G Carroll was over a barrel when Tarantula […]

Aug, 03

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