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House of Bamboo ***½ (1955, Robert Stack, Robert Ryan, Sessue Hayakawa, Brad Dexter, Shirley Yamaguchi, Cameron Mitchell, Biff Elliot) – Classic Movie Review 3465

Cult writer-director Samuel Fuller’s good-looking 1955 film noir crime thriller about an American protection racket in Tokyo is commendably gritty, tough and edgy. The always reliable actor Robert Stack stars as the undercover agent, US […]

Mar, 11

The Mortal Storm ***** (1940, Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan, Robert Young, Robert Stack) – Classic Movie Review 2701

Director Frank Borzage’s strong, sensitive and significant 1940 drama finds the MGM studio in full patriotic mode, doing its bit for the free world by trying to stir up the wartime American public against the […]

Jul, 16

To Be or Not To Be ***** (1942, Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack) – Classic Movie Review 1,943

Set during the Nazi occupation of Poland, Ernst Lubitsch’s controversial 1942 wartime comedy drama film To Be or Not To Be is incredibly daring, funny and poignant. Jack Benny and Carole Lombard (in her last […]

Dec, 10

1941 **** (1979, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Treat Williams, Christopher Lee, Ned Beatty, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Tim Matheson, Toshiro Mifune, Warren Oates, Robert Stack) – Classic Movie Review 1,941

Steven Spielberg’s 1979 epic comedy film 1941 about a Japanese submarine arriving off Los Angeles, causing panic in the wake of Pearl Harbor, was a huge, unexpected flop. John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Treat Williams and […]

Dec, 10

Written on the Wind **** (1956, Lauren Bacall, Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone) – Classic Movie Review 1545

Director Douglas Sirk’s penetrating, inspired 1956 movie expose of the idle, pointless lives of the self-destructive rich centres on an ultra-wealthy Texas oil family. Dorothy Malone won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress for playing the sex-crazed […]

Aug, 13

Mumford (1999, Loren Dean, Hope Davis, Jason Lee) – Classic Film Review 1115

Producer-writer-director Lawrence Kasdan‘s pleasant enough 1999 film stars Loren Dean as a man who assumes a false identity as a psychologist called Dr Mickey Mumford and uses his intuitive skills to help the neurotic residents of a […]

Apr, 19

Airplane! ***** (1980, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, Peter Graves, Robert Stack) – Classic Movie Review 669

Written and directed by the Zucker Brothers David and Jerry and Jim Abrahams, this 1980 send-up of the Airport movies, group-jeopardy disaster films in general and Arthur Hailey’s 1956 TV movie Flight into Danger (remade as […]

Jan, 11

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