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Sailor Beware *** (1952, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Corinne Calvet, Marion Marshall, Robert Strauss, Leif Erickson, Skip Homeier, Vince Edwards, James Dean) – Classic Movie Review 3478

Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis are up to their old tricks, this time in navy larks as sailors in a submarine, in director Hal Walker’s 1952 remake of a 1942 Dorothy Lamour-William Holden musical The […]

Mar, 18

Strait-Jacket *** (1964, Joan Crawford, Diane Baker, Leif Erickson, Howard St John, John Anthony Hayes, Rochelle Hudson, George Kennedy, Edith Atwater) – Classic Movie Review 3251

‘Tina, bring me the axe’. Joan Crawford stars in the 1964 horror movie Strait-Jacket as an axe-wielding killer. Producer-director William Castle casts the great Joan Crawford, aged 59 in 1964, who follows up her success in […]

Jan, 08

Arabian Nights *** (1942, Jon Hall, Maria Montez, Sabu, John Qualen, Leif Erickson, Turhan Bey, Billy Gilbert, Shemp Howard) – Classic Movie Review 3203

Director John Rawlins’s 1942 movie is delightful, expertly crafted, fast-moving escapist adventure hokum designed to cheer up World War Two wartime audiences – and it can still cheer today! A treat in Technicolor, it was nominated […]

Dec, 31

Conquest [Marie Walewska] **** (1937, Greta Garbo, Charles Boyer, Reginald Owen, Alan Marshal, Henry Stephenson, Dame May Whitty) – Classic Movie Review 2921

Director Clarence Brown’s plush 1937 historical romantic drama stars Greta Garbo in a weepie love story about Countess Marie Walewska, the Polish mistress of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (Charles Boyer). She becomes Napoleon’s mistress at the urging of […]

Sep, 21

Invaders from Mars **** (1953, Helena Carter, Arthur Franz, Jimmy Hunt, Leif Erickson, Hillary Brooke) – Classic Movie Review 2371

Director-designer William Cameron Menzies’s much-loved landmark 1953 sci-fi fantasy favourite stars Jimmy Hunt as David MacLean, a small-town American kid who sees a flying saucer land in the marsh outside his house. But, of course, nobody […]

Apr, 08

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