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Posts Tagged "remake"

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Geronimo * (1939, Preston Foster, Ellen Drew, Andy Devine, Chief Thundercloud, Gene Lockhart, Ralph Morgan, William Henry) – Classic Movie Review 5,582

Chief Thundercloud plays Geronimo in writer-director Paul H Sloane’s tepid 1939 Paramount Western film Geronimo about three good guys tracking the bad guy Gillespie (Gene Lockhart) who is selling guns to the Native Americans. And, […]

Jun, 11

The Man Who Could Cheat Death ** (1959, Anton Diffring, Hazel Court, Christopher Lee ) – Classic Movie Review 5567

Director Terence Fisher’s 1958 Hammer studios horror thriller is an attractively lurid and Technicolorful version of an old play by Barré Lyndon and 1945 film The Man in Half Moon Street about a mysteriously handsome […]

Jun, 09

My Cousin Rachel ***½ (2017, Rachel Weisz, Sam Claflin, Iain Glen, Holliday Grainger) – Movie Review

Writer-director Roger Michell’s remake of Daphne Du Maurier’s novel, first filmed with Richard Burton and Olivia de Havilland in 1952, also as My Cousin Rachel, is a thoroughly enjoyable dark romance, successfully bringing out the enduring appeal of the […]

Jun, 09

Witness for the Prosecution *** (1982, Ralph Richardson, Deborah Kerr, Beau Bridges, Donald Pleasence, Wendy Hiller, Diana Rigg) – Classic Movie Review 5560

Director Alan Gibson and writer John Gay’s feebler but still quite involving and amusing 1982 TV movie version of Agatha Christie’s ingenious but creaky London-set courtroom thriller, memorably first filmed as Witness for the Prosecution […]

Jun, 06

The Spoilers **½ (1955, Anne Baxter, Jeff Chandler, Rory Calhoun, Barbara Britton) – Classic Movie Review 5524

The two clashing 1899 Alaska adventurers fight for gold and a gal for the fifth time in director Jesse Hibbs’s routine and lesser but still enjoyable 1955 film version of the novel by Rex Beach. […]

May, 30

The Elusive Pimpernel [The Fighting Pimpernel] *** (1950, David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Cyril Cusack, Jack Hawkins) – Classic Movie Review 5,503

David Niven makes an affable if not inspired Scarlet Pimpernel (aka British aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney) in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s costly, colourful 1950 film The Elusive Pimpernel. David Niven makes an affable if […]

May, 26

Cat People *** (1982, Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard) – Classic Movie Review 5485

Co-writer/ director Paul Schrader’s under-rated 1982 horror movie remakes the 1942 chiller classic Cat People. Nastassja Kinski stars as the beautiful young woman called Irena Gallier who was raised by adoptive parents. Now she is […]

May, 20

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