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Belle of the Nineties **** (1934, Mae West, Roger Pryor, Johnny Mack Brown, John Miljan) – Classic Movie Review 7491

Director Leo McCarey’s irresistible 1934 musical comedy drama Belle of the Nineties is a highspot for the 41-year-old Mae West in her fourth film, following She Done Him Wrong and I’m No Angel, both co-starring Cary […]

Aug, 24

The Iceman Cometh **** (1973, Lee Marvin, Fredric March, Robert Ryan, Jeff Bridges, Bradford Dillman) – Classic Movie Review 7382

Director John Frankenheimer’s remarkable 1973 The Iceman Cometh, made for The American Film Theatre, is an extremely satisfactory filmed-theatre version of Eugene O’Neill’s classic drama set in a 1912 waterfront bar. Lee Marvin, having a […]

Aug, 01

Seven Sinners **** (1940, Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, Albert Dekker, Oskar Homolka, Broderick Crawford, Mischa Auer) – Classic Movie Review 7167

Director Tay Garnett’s fine 1940 black and white adventure comedy knockabout entertainment Seven Sinners expertly mixes romance and brawls, though the scintillating cast is the main reason to watch. Marlene Dietrich and John Wayne show […]

Jun, 15

The New Frontier ** (1935, John Wayne, Muriel Evans, Warner Richmond, Al Bridge, Sam Flint) – Classic Movie Review 7162

John Wayne stars as quick-on-the-draw John Dawson in director Carl Pierson’s very modest, familiar 1935 Republic support Western The New Frontier, in which Wayne’s Dawson character turns lawman to hunt down the man who shot his father […]

Jun, 13

Powder River ** (1953, Rory Calhoun, Cameron Mitchell, Corinne Calvet) – Classic Movie Review 6949

Director Louis King’s 1953 Western stars Cameron Mitchell as Mitch Herdin, an alcoholic doctor with a brain tumour, who helps new Wyatt Earp-like marshal Chino Bullock (Rory Calhoun), who is trying to find his prospecting […]

Apr, 20

The Plainsman ** (1966, Don Murray, Guy Stockwell, Abbie Dalton, Leslie Nielsen, Bradford Dillman, Henry Silva, Simon Oakland) – Classic Movie Review 6840

Don Murray stars as Wild Bill Hickok and Guy Stockwell plays Buffalo Bill Cody in director David Lowell Rich’s plush, handsome but dramatically rather tepid 1966 remake of the Cecil B DeMille Thirties vintage Western […]

Mar, 21

White Fang *** (1936, Michael Whalen, Jean Muir, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charles Winninger, Slim Summerville, Thomas Beck) – Classic Movie Review 6368

Director David Butler’s semi-classic 1936 adventure is a successful, fast-moving and handsomely filmed version of the Jack London story, with Jean Muir and Thomas Beck as siblings Sylvia Burgess and Hal who are bequeathed a mine. […]

Dec, 07

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