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The Crowd Roars **** (1938, Robert Taylor, Edward Arnold, Frank Morgan, Maureen O’Sullivan, William Gargan) – Classic Movie Review 8895

Director Richard Thorpe’s tough 1938 MGM black and white boxing drama The Crowd Roars stars pretty boy Robert Taylor [real name Spangler Arlington Brugh] as Tommy McCoy, who fights his way through to a manlier […]

Sep, 10

The Adventures of Quentin Durward **** (1955, Robert Taylor, Kay Kendall, Robert Morley, Ernest Thesiger, Alec Clunes, Marius Goring, Wilfrid Hyde White, George Cole) – Classic Movie Review 3655

Director Richard Thorpe 1955 British movie is a spirited, pacy, good-looking 15th-century action caper, in which Robert Taylor swashes a spirited buckle as Sir Walter Scott’s noble hero, Scottish knight Quentin Durward. Sent to France to […]

May, 03

Ivanhoe **** (1952, Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Emlyn Williams, Robert Douglas, Finlay Currie, Felix Aylmer) – Classic Movie Review 3654

Finding first choice Stewart Granger otherwise engaged, MGM studios cast their then waning star Robert Taylor as the disowned knight Ivanhoe in director Richard Thorpe’s thoroughly enjoyable Normans versus Saxons 1952 mediaeval swashbuckler Ivanhoe, derived […]

May, 03

Knights of the Round Table **** (1953, Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Mel Ferrer, Felix Aylmer, Stanley Baker, Anne Crawford) – Classic Movie Review 3653

Director Richard Thorpe’s 1953 British Arthurian adventure once again examines the endlessly fascinating Camelot love triangle and the battling Knights of the Round Table. MGM sends over its glamorous stars Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner and Mel Ferrer. King […]

May, 03

Broadway Melody of 1938 **** (1937, Robert Taylor, Sophie Tucker, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy, Judy Garland, Buddy Ebsen, Sid Silvers) – Classic Movie Review 3626

Director Roy Del Ruth’s toe-tapping 1937 musical brings Robert Taylor back as a young Broadway producer-impresario – it is exactly the same part but has different character name, Steve Raleigh – who again is urgently seeking […]

Apr, 27

Broadway Melody of 1936 **** (1935, Jack Benny, Eleanor Powell, Robert Taylor, June Knight, Sid Silvers, Buddy Ebsen, Vilma Ebsen, Una Merkel, Frances Langford) – Classic Movie Review 3625

It took MGM quite a while to come up with a sequel to their 1929 Best Picture Oscar-winning  box-office smash, The Broadway Melody, but here finally, six years later in 1935, it is. However, they […]

Apr, 27

Quo Vadis? **** (1951, Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn, Peter Ustinov, Patricia Laffan, Finlay Currie, Abraham Sofaer) – Classic Movie Review 2253

MGM’s plush and lavish 1951 Technicolor biblical epic blockbuster film Quo Vadis? stars Robert Taylor and Deborah Kerr, as the crazed Emperor Nero (Peter Ustinov) fiddles while Rome burns, chariots race, armies march and lions […]

Mar, 11

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