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Here Come the Waves *** (1944, Bing Crosby, Betty Hutton, Sonny Tufts, Ann Doran) – Classic Movie Review 7393
Director Mark Sandrich’s rather feebly written 1944 wartime patriotic musical Here Come the Waves is rescued by exuberant stars Bing Crosby and Betty Hutton and by one great new song – Harold Arlen (music) and […]
The Fighting Seabees **** (1944, John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Dennis O’Keefe) – Classic Movie Review 7173
In the last year of his five-year contract with Republic Pictures signed just before the success of 1939’s Stagecoach, John Wayne stars as Wedge Donovan in The Fighting Seabees, one of the studio’s typical B-movie wartime […]
Task Force *** (1949, Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Jane Wyatt, Wayne Morris, Julie London, Bruce Bennett) – Classic Movie Review 7,160
Delmer Daves’s respectful and involving 1949 World War Two drama film Task Force stars Gary Cooper as US Navy chief Jonathan L Scott, who tries to persuade his bosses to back aircraft carriers for the […]
HMS Defiant [Damn the Defiant!] **** (1962, Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Anthony Quayle, Tom Bell, Nigel Stock, Maurice Denham) – Classic Movie Review 6,382
Alec Guinness and Dirk Bogarde star in the stirring 1962 Napoleonic Wars sea saga film HMS Defiant [Damn the Defiant!] about the on-board clash on the British vessel in 1797. Alec Guinness and Dirk Bogarde […]
Kiss Them for Me ** (1957, Cary Grant, Jayne Mansfield, Leif Erickson, Ray Walston, Larry Blyden, Suzy Parker, Werner Klemperer) – Classic Movie Review 5878
Director Stanley Donen’s 1957 CinemaScope and DeLuxe Color comedy Kiss Them for Me stars Cary Grant, Jayne Mansfield, Leif Erickson, Ray Walston, Larry Blyden, Suzy Parker, and Werner Klemperer. Cary Grant, Ray Walston and Larry […]
Hit the Deck *** (1955, Tony Martin, Jane Powell, Ann Miller, Debbie Reynolds, Walter Pidgeon, Kay Armen, Vic Damone, Russ Tamblyn, Gene Raymond) – Classic Movie Review 4776
Director Roy Rowland’s 1955 movie is a happy remake of the 1930 musical comedy movie version of Hubert Osborne and Vincent Youmans’s hit 1927 Broadway show Shore Leave. It stars Tony Martin, Jane Powell, Ann Miller, […]
The Wings of Eagles *** (1957, John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, Dan Dailey, Ward Bond) – Classic Movie Review 3412
This strongly felt, nostalgic 1957 personal project from director John Ford turns out to be an uneven, minor airborne action drama providing an interesting but bumpy ride. But there are lots of incidental real pleasures […]