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The Brave One **** (1956, Michel Ray, Rodolfo Hoyos Jr, Elsa Cárdenas, Fermin Rivera) – Classic Movie Review 3260

Director Irving Rapper’s 1956 rarely-shown or little-remembered family drama movie can now be properly recalled thanks to the film Trumbo (2015) that tells the story of its writing. The Brave One won an Oscar for […]

Jan, 12

The Falcon in Mexico ** (1944, Tom Conway, Mona Maris, Martha Vickers) – Classic Movie Review 3214

‘Horror-Mask Key Clue As Master-Killer Slays Four!’ Michael Arlen’s débonair detective The Falcon, aka suave amateur sleuth Tom Lawrence (Tom Conway), goes with an artist’s daughter called Barbara Wade (Martha Vickers) to Mexico to investigate […]

Jan, 02

Pocket Money **** (1972, Paul Newman, Lee Marvin, Strother Martin) – Classic Movie Review 2951

Director Stuart Rosenberg’s quirky, relaxed and appealing 1972 modern Western is one heck of a cult item. It is so rare a gem that it’s more or less totally forgotten. Why is that, exactly? Forgotten […]

Oct, 04

Lessons in Love [Some Kind of Beautiful] ** (2014, Pierce Brosnan, Salma Hayek, Jessica Alba, Malcolm McDowell) – Movie Review

Pierce Brosnan plays a Cambridge poetry professor who begins to re-evaluate his lusty life of roving-eye sexual excess after meeting American sisters Salma Hayek and Jessica Alba in London. Director Tom Vaughan’s romcom, written by Matthew Newman, has […]

Sep, 24

War of the Colossal Beast ** (1958, Duncan Dean Parkin, Sally Fraser, Roger Pace, Russ Bender, Rico Alaniz) – Classic Movie Review 2760

In 1958 director Bert I Gordon delivers a quite lively black-and-white science fiction sequel to his The Amazing Colossal Man (1957). It continues that movie’s storyline, but it was not marketed as a sequel and features […]

Jul, 31

The Cyclops *** (1957, James Craig, Gloria Talbott, Lon Chaney Jr, Tom Drake, Duncan Dean Parkin) – Classic Movie Review 2761

Director Bert I Gordon’s 1957 sci-fi monster movie stars Lon Chaney Jnr as boozy, cantankerous, wealthy old Martin ‘Marty’ Melville, who nervously accompanies eager Susan Winter (Gloria Talbott) on an expedition out to a remote area of […]

Jul, 31

Juarez **** (1939, Paul Muni, Claude Rains, Bette Davis, Gale Sondergaard, Brian Aherne, John Garfield) – Classic Movie Review 2704

Director William Dieterle’s stirring and starry 1939 historical epic stars Paul Muni as the Mexican lawyer, politician and revolutionary Benito Pablo Juárez García (21 March 1806 – 18 July 1872). Juárez resisted the French occupation […]

Jul, 26

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