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The Day the Earth Stood Still ***** (1951, Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe, Hugh Marlowe) – Classic Movie Review 3648

Director Robert Wise’s classic 1951 sci-fi movie The Day the Earth Stood Still stars Michael Rennie as a humanoid alien visitor who arrives on planet Earth in Washington from space to tell us Earthlings that […]

May, 02

Five Fingers **** (1952, James Mason, Danielle Darrieux, Michael Rennie) – Classic Movie Review 3605

Director Joseph L Mankiewicz’s smart, sleek, smooth, suspenseful, satisfying espionage thriller stars a well-cast James Mason, who gives a splendid performance as a Nazi spy, L C Moyzisch aka Cicero, during World War Two. Working […]

Apr, 23

Les Misérables *** (1952, Robert Newton, Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, Edmund Gwenn, Sylvia Sidney, Cameron Mitchell, Elsa Lanchester, James Robertson Justice, Joseph Wiseman) – Classic Movie Review 3147

Robert Newton gives an entertaining, lip-smacking performance as the sneering, over-law-abiding cop Inspector Javert in this well-acted, thoroughly enjoyable if not especially distinguished screen version of the Victor Hugo tale. Michael Rennie perhaps is less […]

Dec, 12

Demetrius and the Gladiators *** (1954, Victor Mature, Susan Hayward, Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, Anne Bancroft, Jay Robinson) – Classic Movie Review 2251

Director Delmer Daves’s routine but entertaining 1954 sword-and-sandal follow-up to the 20th Century Fox blockbuster movie The Robe is cinema’s only sequel to a biblical epic. Made in CinemaScope and Technicolor, it was another huge hit, grossing $26million […]

Mar, 10

The Robe *** (1953, Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Michael Rennie) – Classic Movie Review 2,248

The conscientious 1953 biblical epic film The Robe stars Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature and Michael Rennie, and is notable for being the first film ever to be released in CinemaScope. There are five […]

Mar, 09

Sailor of the King *** (1953, Jeffrey Hunter, Michael Rennie, Wendy Hiller, Bernard Lee, Peter Van Eyck, Victor Maddern) – Classic Movie Review 1645

Director Roy Boulting’s 1953 Second World War-set Royal Navy yarn Sailor of the King, cut from the same cloth as a thousand other wartime adventures, spins the proficient tale of eager young rookie Signalman Brown […]

Sep, 07

The Wicked Lady **** (1945, Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Patricia Roc, Griffith Jones, Michael Rennie) – Classic Movie Review 1335

The 1945 British costume melodrama film The Wicked Lady stars Margaret Lockwood as a nobleman’s wife who becomes a highwayman for the excitement. It enjoyed incredible popularity when 18,400,000 patrons paid to see it. Writer-director […]

Jun, 18

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