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Crime and Punishment *** (1935, Harry Baur, Pierre Blanchar, Madeleine Ozeray) – Classic Movie Review 10,222

Director Pierre Chenal’s 1935 black and white crime drama Crime and Punishment [Crime et Châtiment] is the simultaneously filmed French version of the Fyodor Dostoevsky classic novel, while Josef Von Sternberg was making his Hollywood […]

Aug, 25

Judge Priest **** (1934, Will Rogers, Tom Brown, Anita Louise, Henry B Walthall, David Landau) – Classic Movie Review 10,126

Director John Ford’s 1934 film Judge Priest stars Will Rogers as 1890s widowed small-town Kentucky Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, who engages his laid-back common-sense and humanity to dispense justice generally, and in particular […]

Aug, 03

Deep Waters ** (1948, Dana Andrews, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero, Dean Stockwell, Anne Revere) – Classic Movie Review 9984

Director Henry King’s minor but appealing 1948 drama Deep Waters is based on the novel Spoonhandle by Ruth Moore, and stars Dean Stockwell, Jean Peters, Dana Andrews and Cesar Romero. It was Oscar nominated for […]

Jul, 01

Lady by Choice *** (1934, Carole Lombard, May Robson, Roger Pryor, Walter Connolly) – Classic Movie Review 9927

Incomparable 1930s players Carole Lombard and May Robson delight in director David Burton’s bubbly 1934 vintage comedy Lady by Choice about a fame-hungry fan-dancer, Alabam Lee (Lombard), who takes in a mean, drunken, down-at-heel old […]

Jun, 18

Cass Timberlane ** (1947, Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner, Zachary Scott, Tom Drake, Mary Astor) – Classic Movie Review 9079

Director George Sidney’s 1947 romantic drama Cass Timberlane stars Lana Turner as poor girl Virginia Marshland, who marries older rich judge Cass Timberlane (Spencer Tracy), loses her baby, and then starts fancying the shifty attorney […]

Nov, 19

…and justice for all **** (1979, Al Pacino, Jack Warden, John Forsythe, Lee Strasberg, Christine Lahti, Sam Levene, Jeffrey Tambor) – Classic Movie Review 8,797

The ironic title of Norman Jewison’s 1979 crime thriller And Justice for All hides a wildly funny and despairing film that shows the US legal system in the worst possible light. It was nominated for […]

Aug, 05

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean *** (1972, Paul Newman, Ava Gardner, Victoria Principal, Anthony Perkins, Frank Soto, Ned Beatty, Jacqueline Bisset, Tab Hunter, Roddy McDowall) – Classic Movie Review 8724

Star Paul Newman and director John Huston are in easy-going mood in the likeable 1972 movie The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, an amusing if unfocused Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid-type Western […]

Jul, 17

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