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A Girl in a Million ** (1946, Hugh Williams, Joan Greenwood, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne) – Classic Movie Review 10,880

Director Francis Searle’s 1946 comedy A Girl in a Million stars Joan Greenwood and Hugh Williams, features Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne in one of the 11 films they made together (notably Hitchcock’s The Lady […]

Feb, 04

The Brother from Another Planet *** (1984, Joe Morton, Daryl Edwards, Rosanna Carter) – Classic Movie Review 10,396

Writer-director John Sayles’s entertaining, satirical 1984 sci-fi comedy The Brother from Another Planet is about a mute alien extra-terrestrial brother (Joe Morton) from another planet who arrives in Harlem, where he impresses the community and […]

Oct, 09

The Proud Rebel *** (1958, Alan Ladd, Olivia de Havilland, Dean Jagger, David Ladd) – Classic Movie Review 10,035

Alan Ladd and his 11-year-old son David Ladd star together in director Michael Curtiz’s warm and involving 1958 family film The Proud Rebel about the lives of a father, John Chandler (Alan Ladd), and his […]

Jul, 14

Il Grande Silenzio [The Big Silence] [The Great Silence] ***** (1968, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Klaus Kinski, Vonetta McGee, Frank Wolff, Luigi Pistilli) – Classic Movie Review 7813

Jean-Louis Trintignant stars as a mute in Sergio Corbucci’s brilliant 1968 revisionist Spaghetti Western Il Grande Silenzio – a suppressed masterpiece. Co-writer/ director Sergio Corbucci’s ambitious and brilliant Italian-made 1968 revisionist Spaghetti Western Il Grande Silenzio [The Big […]

Nov, 20

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

The Black Sleep *** (1956, Basil Rathbone, Lon Chaney Jr, John Carradine, Bela Lugosi, Akim Tamiroff) – Classic Movie Review 4549

‘Horror beyond belief rising from the depths of a black hell!’ Ah, yes, excellent! But, wait, there’s more: ‘A horror horde of monster mutants walk the Earth!’ Horror icons Basil Rathbone, Lon Chaney Jr, John […]

Oct, 27

The Ghost Ship *** (1943, Richard Dix, Russell Wade, Edith Barrett) – Classic Movie Review 2036

  The rarest of all producer Val Lewton’s films, this 1943 movie offers an odd and brooding tale of mysterious deaths aboard a ship under the command of dotty, power-crazed captain Richard Dix. The RKO studio had […]

Jan, 02

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