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Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion ** (1965, Marshall Thompson, Betsy Drake, Richard Haydn) – Classic Movie Review 8213

Director Andrew Marton’s 1965 children’s and family comedy adventure movie Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion is the pilot for the 89 episode Sixties TV show Daktari (1966–1969), which was given a cinema release. Marshall Thompson stars […]

Mar, 07

Tarzan and the Great River ** (1967, Mike Henry, Jan Murray, Manuel Padilla Jr) – Classic Movie Review 8076

Tarzan and the Great River (1967) is directed briskly and very competently by Robert Day. It is the penultimate of the five Tarzan movies he made in the Sixties. The great river is the Amazon […]

Jan, 30

Hollywood Party *** (1934, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jimmy Durante, Lupe Velez, Mickey Mouse, The Three Stooges) – Classic Movie Review 7449

Take almost the entire MGM comedy team (Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Jimmy Durante, Lupe Velez, and The Three Stooges), throw them into an all-star film in which virtually every comedy director on the lot […]

Aug, 16

Safari * (1956, Victor Mature, Janet Leigh, Roland Culver, John Justin, Earl Cameron) – Classic Movie Review 7264

‘Murderous Mau-Mau! Maddened Beasts! Mighty Jungle Love!’ There are no surprises here in director Terence Young’s fumbling 1956 British adventure film Safari, which has little going for it except the reasonably enjoyable cast. Hired by […]

Jul, 08

The Naked Prey *** (1966, Cornel Wilde, Gert Van Den Berg, Patrick Mynhardt) – Classic Movie Review 7079

‘Stripped, weaponless, alone and only ten desperate seconds ahead of the killers!’ Producer-director Cornel Wilde’s 1966 movie The Naked Prey is a tough, demanding and excellent 19th-century jungle adventure thriller starring himself as the safari guide The […]

May, 21

Charlie Chan in Honolulu *** (1938, Sidney Toler, Phyllis Brooks, Victor Sen Yung, Eddie Collins, John King, Claire Dodd, George Zucco) – Classic Movie Review 6131

Director H Bruce Humberstone’s strongly cast 1938 B-movie thriller finds that it is up to Sidney Toler to take over as Charlie Chan from series star Warner Oland, who died in 1937. Toler proves an […]

Oct, 23

The Wagons Roll at Night *** (1941, Humphrey Bogart, Sylvia Sidney, Eddie Albert, Joan Leslie, Sig Ruman, Cliff Clark) – Classic Movie Review 5526

In 1941 Warner Bros recycle yet another of their old scripts – this time Kid Galahad (1937) stripped of its boxing theme – as a vehicle for their tough-guy star Humphrey Bogart, who is hardly […]

May, 31

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