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The Long, Long Trailer **** (1954, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Marjorie Main, Keenan Wynn, Moroni Olsen) – Classic Movie Review 5,929

The 1954 road movie comedy film The Long, Long Trailer is a sprightly, nimble vehicle for the real-life married pair Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, who star as a couple who buy an all-too-expensive trailer-home […]

Aug, 17

The Hidden Fortress [Kakushi-toride no san-akunin] ***** (1958, Toshirô Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki) Classic Movie Review 5884

Co-writer/ director Akira Kurosawa’s 1958 Japanese adventure is one of Kurosawa’s deservedly admired, classic Samurai movies, and a world cinema landmark. Toshirô Mifune stars as a fearlesss Samurai warrior, General Rokurota Makabe, who during the […]

Aug, 08

Extreme Ops ½ (2002, Devon Sawa, Rufus Sewell, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, Rupert Graves) – Classic Movie Review 5462

Devon Sawa, Rufus Sewell, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras and Rupert Graves star in director Christian Duguay’s handsome-looking but mindless 2002 movie that at least looks like it provided a great winter sports holiday for all concerned. But, […]

May, 16

The Moonlighter ** (1953, Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Ward Bond, William Ching, John Dierkes, Morris Ankrum, Jack Elam) – Classic Movie Review 5223

Director Roy Rowland’s surprisingly limp, sluggish and over-familiar 1953 Western reunites Double Indemnity stars Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray for this Niven Busch story about a cattle rustler villain, Wes Anderson (MacMurray), intent on changing […]

Mar, 31

For Whom the Bell Tolls **** (1943, Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff, Arturo de Cordova, Katina Paxinou) – Classic Movie Review 4807

Gary Cooper is ideally cast as Robert Jordan, Ernest Hemingway’s American soldier fighting in Spain in the 1930s, in producer-director Sam Wood’s lavish 1943 Hollywood golden years epic of the Spanish Civil War. However, Ingrid […]

Dec, 23

Will Penny **** (1968, Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett, Donald Pleasence, Lee Majors, Bruce Dern, Anthony Zerbe, Clifton James, Ben Johnson, William Schallert, Slim Pickens, G D Spradlin) – Classic Movie Review 4535

Co-producer/ writer/ director Tom Gries’s intensely burning 1968 Western is excellent, with a quietly powerful story about Charlton Heston’s aging, saddle-sore cowboy Will Penny, who gets a job on a large cattle spread and finds […]

Oct, 26

The Crimson Rivers [Les Rivières Pourpres] * (2000, Jean Reno, Vincent Cassel, Nadia Farès, Dominique Sanda, Karim Belkhadra, Jean-Pierre Cassel) – Classic Movie Review 4452

The formidable duo of Jean Reno and Vincent Cassel star as Pierre Niemans and Max Kerkerian, a pair of French policemen who are drawn together by a series of grisly murders and a graveyard desecration in Jean-Christophe Grangé’s […]

Oct, 03

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