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Ferry to Hong Kong ** (1959, Curd Jürgens, Orson Welles, Sylvia Syms, Jeremy Spenser, Noel Purcell) – Classic Movie Review 6752

‘It was my nightmare film. It was a dreadful film, and everything was wrong with it, principally Welles.’ Hooray for Curt Jurgens [Curd Jürgens] and Orson Welles, who have a field day hamming it up as, […]

Feb, 28

Davy Crockett and the River Pirates ** (1956, Fess Parker, Buddy Ebsen, Jeff York) – Classic Movie Review 6486

Director Norman Foster’s 1956 cinema feature is the second, less inspiring, of the two Walt Disney films stitched together from hour-long episodes of Fess Parker’s TV series of wholesome children’s outdoor Western adventures. This time […]

Dec, 29

Cyborg ** (1989, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Deborah Richter, Vincent Klyn, Alex Daniels, Dayle Haddon) – Classic Movie Review 5,932

Jean-Claude Van Damme gives an impressive, entertaining display of martial arts prowess, killing off bad guys with his bare hands, in writer-director Albert Pyun’s tacky, low-budget 1989 American futuristic fantasy martial-arts cyberpunk film Cyborg. The young […]

Aug, 18

The Island * (1980, Michael Caine, David Warner, Angela Punch McGregor, Frank Middlemass) – Classic Movie Review 5548

The Jaws writer Peter Benchley adapts his own novel and comes back together with the Jaws producers Richard D Zanuck and David Brown for a movie they would no doubt rather forget. Probably Michael Caine isn’t too […]

Jun, 04

Captain Kidd *** (1945, Charles Laughton, Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton, Reginald Owen, John Carradine, Gilbert Roland, Sheldon Leonard, Henry Daniell, John Qualen) – Classic Movie Review 4.803

Director Rowland V Lee’s lively if slack and unhistorical 1945 adventure movie Captain Kidd has the great virtue of starring the incomparable Charles Laughton as the mischievous pirate captain. He enjoys a fine old time […]

Dec, 21

Spawn of the North **** (1938, George Raft, Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour, Akim Tamiroff, John Barrymore, Louise Platt) – Classic Movie Review 4582

Director Henry Hathaway’s all-action 1938 sea adventure about a salmon-fishing war between the Americans and Russians off Alaska is a high-spirited movie with great Alaskan glacier scenery. The outstanding special effects, sound effects and photographic […]

Nov, 03

Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story **½ (2004, Vince Vaughn, Ben Stiller, Rip Torn, Justin Long, Christine Taylor, Gary Cole) – Classic Movie Review 4356

To save his gym from foreclosure, Vince Vaughn arranges for his gang of gym buddy misfits to fight Ben Stiller’s team for a $50,000 prize at a Las Vegas game of dodgeball. There are as […]

Sep, 13

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