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Posts Tagged "Mexico"

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Captain from Castile **** (1947, Tyrone Power, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero, Lee J Cobb, Antonio Moreno, Thomas Gomez, Alan Mowbray, John Sutton) – Classic Movie Review 4683

The spirited classic 1947 swashbuckling adventure film Captain from Castile hands the handsome and dashing Tyrone Power a tailor-made role as the 16th-century young Spanish officer Pedro De Vargas. Director Henry King’s spirited classic 1947 […]

Nov, 22

The Matador **** (2005, Pierce Brosnan, Greg Kinnear, Hope Davis, Adam Scott) – Classic Movie Review 4284

Pierce Brosnan scores a hit as a world-weary hit-man, who drags failed salesman Greg Kinnear into his crazy way of life in Mexico. Much later, a desperate Brosnan turns up at Kinnear’s home to seek […]

Sep, 02

Hold Back the Dawn **** (1941, Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard, Victor Francen, Walter Abel, Curt Bois) – Classic Movie Review 4180

Happily, there is no holding back director Mitchell Leisen’s marvellous 1941 vintage romantic comedy, based securely on a top-flight Billy Wilder-Charles Brackett screenplay (based on the story Memo to a Movie Producer by Ketti Frings) that is […]

Aug, 16

Under the Volcano **** (1984, Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews, Katy Jurado, James Villiers) – Classic Movie Review 4,123

John Huston’s intensely smouldering 1984 metaphorical drama film Under the Volcano finds Albert Finney on scalding form, giving a blazing performance as an alcoholic former British consul in Thirties Mexico. Director John Huston’s intensely smouldering […]

Aug, 02

The Black Scorpion ** (1957, Richard Denning, Mara Corday, Carlos Rivas) – Classic Movie Review 3,917

Every Horror You’ve Seen on the Screen Grows Pale Beside the horror of The Black Scorpion (1957). ‘Every Horror You’ve Seen on the Screen Grows Pale Beside the horror of The Black Scorpion!’ Director Edward […]

Jul, 02

Big Jake *** (1971, John Wayne, Richard Boone, Maureen O’Hara, Patrick Wayne, Chris Mitchum, Bobby Vinton, Bruce Cabot) – Classic Movie Review 3410

Director George Sherman’s robust 1971 Western sees an ageing John Wayne coming towards the end of the trail as Big Jake McCandles, an old Texas cattleman chasing John Fain (Richard Boone)’s bloodthirsty gang who have […]

Feb, 26

Monsters **** (2010, Scoot McNairy, Whitney Able, Mario Zuniga Benavides) – Classic Movie Review 3312

Hooray for writer-director Gareth Edwards’s imaginative, stylish, thrilling and very well done 2010 sci-fi thriller, in which aliens have appeared on Earth and the authorities are trying to contain the creatures. The plot focuses on cynical US […]

Feb, 01

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