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White Zombie **** (1932, Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Cawthorn) – Classic Movie Review 4422

Director Victor Halperin’s haunting 1932 74-minute horror movie White Zombie is all too cheaply made and mostly poorly acted. But it is a vintage classic none the less thanks to its exotic sets, eerie atmosphere, strange […]

Sep, 27

Band of Angels ** (1957, Clark Gable, Yvonne De Carlo, Sidney Poitier, Efrem Zimbalist Jr, Rex Reason, Patric Knowles) – Classic Movie Review 3978

Director Raoul Walsh’s creaky, unenthusiastic, forgotten 1957 romantic drama Band of Angels stars Clark Gable as handsome but shady Louisiana plantation owner Hamish Bond and Yvonne De Carlo as privileged young southern belle Amantha Starr […]

Jul, 05

Parrish *** (1961, Troy Donahue, Claudette Colbert, Karl Malden, Dean Jagger, Connie Stevens) – Classic Movie Review 3383

Writer-producer-director Delmer Daves, star Troy Donahue, composer Max Steiner and cinematographer Harry Stradling Sr all reunite after their 1959 success with A Summer Place for this new overwrought 1961 romantic drama, Parrish. The likeable and […]

Feb, 19

Out of Africa **** (1985, Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer) – Classic Movie Review 1958

Producer-director Sydney Pollack’s deliriously plush and gorgeous-looking 1985 real-life romantic drama stars beautiful people Meryl Streep and Robert Redford as Danish baroness, plantation owner Karen Blixen and free-spirited big-game hunter Denys Finch Hatton, who fall […]

Dec, 14

The Letter ***** (1940, Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson, Victor Sen Yung, Gale Sondergaard) – Classic Movie Review 1340

‘Even my agony was a kind of joy!’, yells the great Bette Davis, who sins, kills, lies, cheats and publicly humiliates her forgiving husband Herbert Marshall in director William Wyler’s powerhouse, overwhelmingly haunting 1940 film […]

Jun, 21

Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte ***** (1964, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Mary Astor, Victor Buono, Cecil Kellaway, Wesley Addy) – Classic Movie Review 737

The 1964 follow-up movie Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte is less iconic but perhaps an even smarter mystery horror thriller film, with Bette Davis returning triumphantly from What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?  Director Robert Aldrich’s […]

Jan, 23

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles ***** (1994, Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Antonio Banderas, Christian Slater, Stephen Rea, Kirsten Dunst, Thandie Newton) – Classic Movie Review 88

Director Neil Jordan’s commanding, all-embracing 1994 romantic vampire movie Interview with the Vampire, based on Anne Rice’s 1976 bestselling novel, is a dark, swirling homoerotic meditation on love, death and the hereafter. Along with Dracula […]

Jul, 25

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