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Midas Run [A Run on Gold] ** (1969, Fred Astaire, Richard Crenna, Anne Heywood, Ralph Richardson, Roddy McDowall, Adolfo Celi, Maurice Denham, Cesar Romero) – Classic Movie Review 10,682

Director Alf Kjellin’s 1969 Midas Run [A Run on Gold] stars Fred Astaire as a devious veteran British secret service agent called John Pedley, who plots with duped professor Mike Warden (Richard Crenna) to steal a […]

Dec, 19

My American Uncle [Mon Oncle d’Amérique] **** (1980, Gérard Depardieu, Nicole Garcia, Roger Pierre) – Classic Movie Review 9138

Director Alain Renais’s offbeat, humorous 1980 film My American Uncle [Mon Oncle d’Amérique] is a character study of a technical manager at a textile factory (Gérard Depardieu), a self-educated actress (Nicole Garcia) and a writer/politician […]

Dec, 08

The Trap *** (1959, Richard Widmark, Lee J Cobb, Tina Louise, Earl Holliman) – Classic Movie Review 9016

Co-writer/ co-producer/ director Norman Panama’s 1959 action crime thriller The Trap [The Baited Trap] stars Lee J Cobb as low-life law-breaker Victor Massonetti, a wanted mobster who is attempting to hide from the cops before […]

Oct, 24

In Old Arizona **** (1928, Warner Baxter, Edmund Lowe, Dorothy Burgess) – Classic Movie Review 8283

Director Irving Cummings’s 1928 Western In Old Arizona stars Warner Baxter, who won the 1930 Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his first appearance as O Henry’s guitar-strumming bandit, the Cisco Kid. […]

Mar, 23

Wrong Again *** (1929, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dell Henderson, Josephine Crowell, Harry Bernard) – Classic Movie Review 7414

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are on good form in director Leo McCarey’s bizarre and amusing 1929 20-minute two-reel farcical comedy Wrong Again, written by H M Walker (titles), based on a story by Lewis R […]

Aug, 08

Man-Trap *** (1961, Jeffrey Hunter, David Janssen, Stella Stevens) – Classic Movie Review 7281

‘Too many men… Too many thrills… Soon – Too much violence!’ Producer/ director Edmond O’Brien makes the most of his rare chance to direct (his second and last after 1954’s Shield for Murder) in 1961’s brisk, capable black […]

Jul, 11

She Couldn’t Say No [Beautiful but Dangerous] ** (1954, Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Arthur Hunnicutt, Edgar Buchanan) – Classic Movie Review 5712

Director Lloyd Bacon’s 1954 interesting but misfiring would-be comedy is set in a town symbolically called Progress, Arkansas, where a beautiful millionairess called Corby Lane (Jean Simmons) goes home to the place she was brought […]

Jul, 04

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