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Posts Tagged "romantic triangle"

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Untamed *** (1955, Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Richard Egan, John Justin, Agnes Moorehead, Rita Moreno, Hope Emerson, Brad Dexter, Henry O’Neill) – Classic Movie Review 8314

Director Henry King’s 1955 DeLuxe colour and widescreen adventure Untamed is a busy, complex, handsome-looking, well-done African epic, in which Tyrone Power stars as Boer leader Paul Van Riebeck, who romances impetuous colleen Katie O’Neill […]

Mar, 30

No Sad Songs for Me *** (1950, Margaret Sullavan, Wendell Corey, Viveca Lindfors, Natalie Wood) – Classic Movie Review 7950

Director Rudolph Maté’s 1950 drama No Sad Songs for Me is Margaret Sullavan’s swansong in the movies. It is aptly the story of a terminally ill mother, Mary Scott (Sullavan), who will not tell her […]

Dec, 28

Lucky Me ** (1954, Doris Day, Robert Cummings, Phil Silvers, Eddie Foy Jr, Nancy Walker, Martha Hyer) – Classic Movie Review 7,690

It is lucky there are Doris Day’s vigour and her sparky way with a tune, plus reliable fun from Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker, in the 1954 Warner Bros musical film Lucky Me because it […]

Oct, 21

The Dawn Rider *** (1935, John Wayne, Marion Burns, Dennis Moore) – Classic Movie Review 7130

Writer-director Robert N Bradbury’s 1935 The Dawn Rider is another early John Wayne low-budget B-movie Western with a then lanky young John playing John Mason out for revenge when the bad guys kill his loving father […]

Jun, 07

Whispering Smith **** (1948, Alan Ladd, Robert Preston, Brenda Marshall, Donald Crisp) – Classic Movie Review 6990

Whispering Smith (1948) is notable as Alan Ladd’s first Western and first colour film, moving him on from the film noir movies such as This Gun for Hire (1942), The Glass Key (1942) and The Blue Dahlia (1946) and on to Shane (1953). Ladd stars in […]

May, 02

Out of Season *** (1975, Vanessa Redgrave, Cliff Robertson, Susan George) – Classic Movie Review 6277

Vanessa Redgrave, Cliff Robertson and Susan George spark the drama in the smart British 1975 romantic triangle film Out of Season, set in an English winter resort. Director Alan Bridges’s smart, sensitive and atmospheric but […]

Nov, 21

The Astonished Heart *** (1950, Celia Johnson, Noël Coward, Margaret Leighton, Graham Payn, Joyce Carey) – Classic Movie Review 3049

One of Noël Coward’s Tonight at 8:30 collection of 10 short plays (like Still Life that became Brief Encounter) looks thin and exposed in director Terence Fisher’s poorly directed, sluggish 1950 screen version. It fails […]

Nov, 09

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