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The Frozen Dead * (1966, Dana Andrews, Anna Palk, Philip Gilbert, Karel Stepanek) – Classic Movie Review 7293

Producer, screenwriter, director Herbert J Leder’s gleefully ridiculous 1966 British zombies plus Nazis mashup horror film The Frozen Dead stars Dana Andrews, Anna Palk, Philip Gilbert, and Karel Stepanek. The frozen dead are refrigerated top Nazis whom […]

Jul, 15

Reunion **** (1989, Jason Robards, Christien Anholt, Samuel West) – Classic Movie Review 6804

Reunion is the haunting story of the broken ‘enchanted friendship’ of two teenage boys of different backgrounds in 1932-33 Germany, with Harold Pinter’s distinguished screenplay adapting Fred Uhlman’s novel. Count Konradin von Lohenburg: ‘I believe in […]

Mar, 14

The Cheap Detective ** (1978, Peter Falk, Ann-Margret, John Houseman, Louise Fletcher, Nicol Williamson, Fernando Lamas, Madeline Kahn, Dom DeLuise) – Classic Movie Review 6793

The actors seem to be having a good time in the 1978 comedy The Cheap Detective sending up Humphrey Bogart’s films in a 1940 San Francisco-set parody with Peter Falk as a Bogart-style character called […]

Mar, 12

Mystery Submarine ** (1950, Macdonald Carey, Märta Torén, Robert Douglas, Carl Esmond, Ludwig Donath) – Classic Movie Review 6674

Director Douglas Sirk’s little-known 1952 thriller stars Macdonald Carey as undercover US Navy Intelligence Officer Dr Brett Young, who sets out to save naive duped widow Madeline Brenner (Swedish star Märta Torén) and kidnapped scientist Euro-boffin Dr Adolph […]

Feb, 10

Betrayed ** (1954, Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Victor Mature, Louis Calhern, O E Hasse) – Classic Movie Review 6,665

MGM’s 1954 romantic spy drama film Betrayed stars Clark Gable as a wartime Dutch spy boss who recruits Carla Van Oven (Lana Turner) to liaise with dashing Resistance leader The Scarf (Victor Mature). MGM’s creakily […]

Feb, 09

Operation Crossbow **** (1965, Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Richard Johnson, Tom Courtenay, Lilli Palmer, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms, Richard Todd) – Classic Movie Review 6449

The star-studded, slap-up 1965 World War Two wartime adventure movie Operation Crossbow stars Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Richard Johnson, and Tom Courtenay.  Director Michael Anderson’s star-studded, slap-up 1965 World War Two […]

Dec, 22

Hitler’s Madman [Hitler’s Hangman] *** (1943, Patricia Morison, John Carradine, Alan Curtis) – Classic Movie Review 6381

Director Douglas Sirk’s 1943 wartime drama was suggested as a World War Two moral-boosting movie by Eleanor Roosevelt, the US First Lady (1933-45), and is based on a tragic real story, though slightly fictionalized. It […]

Dec, 09

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