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The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek ***** (1944, Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn, William Demarest, Porter Hall, Brian Donlevy, Akim Tamiroff) – Classic Movie Review 2622
Writer-producer-director Preston Sturges’s much-loved 1944 screwball comedy The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek is one of his handful of great cinema classics. Sturges’s funny, frantic and tasteless attack on many of America’s most sacred cows from […]
Charley Varrick ***** (1973, Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Jacqueline Scott, Felicia Farr, Andy Robinson, John Vernon, Sheree North, Norman Fell) – Classic Movie Review 2,581
Don Siegel’s gritty 1973 neo-noir crime thriller Charley Varrick is a total humdinger, with Walter Matthau as an ex-stunt pilot who accidentally lifts a Mafia fortune. Joe Don Baker is a great villain as the […]
Rio Bravo ***** (1959, John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan, Ward Bond, John Russell, Claude Akins) – Classic Movie Review 2540
Director Howard Hawks’s classic 1959 Western Rio Bravo stars John Wayne as the southwest Texas small town lawman Sheriff John T Chance, who prevents a killer called Joe Burdette (Claude Akins) from escaping out of […]
In the Heat of the Night ***** (1967, Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, William Schallert, Lee Grant, Scott Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 2,512
Director Norman Jewison’s stupendous 1967 detective thriller In the Heat of the Night showcases Rod Steiger’s storming Oscar-winning performance as racist bigot Southern sheriff Police Chief Bill Gillespie and Sidney Poitier’s distinguished, graceful performance as […]
The Brain Eaters ** (1958, Ed Nelson, Alan Frost, Joanna Lee, Jack Hill) – Classic Movie Review 2486
Director Bruno VeSota’s silly 1958 tame tingler is more science fiction than horror movie. It rejoices in a mundane plot about hairy alien parasites from the centre of the earth attaching themselves to the backs […]
Superman and the Mole Men *** (1951, George Reeves, Phyllis Coates, Jeff Corey) – Classic Movie Review 2243
After a couple of serials, director Lee Sholem’s engaging 1951 comic book fantasy Superman and the Mole Men is the first Superman cinema feature. George Reeves takes over from Kirk Alyn as Superman/Clark Kent and Phyllis […]
Waking Ned Devine *** (1998, Ian Bannen, David Kelly, Fionnula Flanagan, James Nesbitt, Susan Lynch) – Classic Movie Review 2118
Writer-director Kirk Jones’s whimsical 1998 Irish comedy is funny and has charm to spare. Lottery fever grips the small Irish village of Tullymore, when it’s found someone there holds a jackpot-wining ticket. There’s one small […]