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Gray Lady Down ** (1978, Charlton Heston, David Carradine Stacy Keach, Ned Beatty, Stephen McHattie, Ronny Cox) – Classic Movie Review 6259

‘Trapped underwater… with time running out.’ Charlton Heston stars in director David Greene’s sombre 1978 action adventure disaster movie as a US Navy Captain called Paul Blanchard, whose nuclear submarine The USS Neptune has collided […]

Nov, 15

The People that Time Forgot ** (1977, Doug McClure, Patrick Wayne, Sarah Douglas) – Classic Movie Review 6223

Doug McClure returns as Bowen Tyler in co-writer/ director Kevin Connor’s 1977 sequel to their 1974 Amicus hit The Land that Time Forgot. It is a forgettable, dated-looking affair about Major Ben McBride (Patrick Wayne)’s […]

Nov, 10

Move Over, Darling *** (1963, Doris Day, James Garner, Polly Bergen, Thelma Ritter, Chuck Connors, Fred Clark, Don Knotts) – Classic Movie Review 5,969

When Marilyn Monroe died, 20th Century Fox hastily revamped her unfinished movie Something’s Got To Give with a title change to Move Over, Darling (1963) as a vehicle for Doris Day. In 1962 the screwball comedy My […]

Aug, 25

Born to Dance **** (1936, Eleanor Powell, James Stewart, Virginia Bruce, Sid Silvers, Buddy Ebsen, Raymond Walburn, Una Merkel, Frances Langford) – Classic Movie Review 5,921

James Stewart, Sid Silvers, Buddy Ebsen and Raymond Walburn meet Eleanor Powell, Virginia Bruce, Una Merkel and Frances Langford at the Lonely Hearts Club in New York, in MGM’s lovely 1936 musical film Born to […]

Aug, 15

Tarzan and the Amazons *** (1945, Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Johnny Sheffield, Maria Ouspenskaya, Barton MacLane, Henry Stephenson) – Classic Movie Review 5905

‘ STRANGE ADVENTURE…in the secret wonder city of pagan forest maidens.’ Johnny Weissmuller stars again in RKO’s 1945 adventure as Tarzan, who this time looks after a tribe of women in a hidden Amazon valley threatened […]

Aug, 13

King Solomon’s Mines **** (1937, Paul Robeson, Roland Young, John Loder, Anna Lee) – Classic Movie Review 5633

Paul Robeson’s superlative performance (he even gets to sing) as hunter guide Umbopa, a mysterious exiled African chief who helps the explorers in their quest, lights up director Robert Stevenson’s 1937 British movie of the […]

Jun, 19

Tammy and the Bachelor [Tammy] *** (1957, Debbie Reynolds, Walter Brennan, Leslie Nielsen, Mala Powers, Fay Wray, Sidney Blackmer, Mildred Natwick) – Classic Movie Review 5511

Debbie Reynolds (1932–2016) stars in the first, and by far the best of the four Tammy films, all loosely based on the stories by Cid Ricketts Sumner. Here the kind-hearted, plucky young riverboat heroine Tammy […]

May, 28

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