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Little Big Horn [The Fighting Seventh] **** (1951, Lloyd Bridges, John Ireland, Marie Windsor, Reed Hadley, Hugh O’Brian) – Classic Movie Review 12,072

Writer-director Charles Marquis Warren’s 1951 black and white Western film Little Big Horn [The Fighting Seventh] stars Lloyd Bridges as Captain Phillip Donlin, the unsuccessful rescuer of General Custer. Donlin and his small troop of […]

Apr, 19

The Long Day’s Dying ** (1968, David Hemmings, Tony Beckley, Tom Bell, Alan Dobie) – Classic Movie Review 11,675

Director Peter Collinson’s grim and gloomy 1968 film The Long Day’s Dying is based on a 1962 novel by Alan White, and stars David Hemmings, Tony Beckley, Tom Bell and Alan Dobie. Despite a screenplay […]

Oct, 24

Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers **½ (1977, Robin Askwith, Nigel Davenport, George Layton, Robin Nedwell, Warren Mitchell, John le Mesurier, Edward Woodward, Irene Handl) – Classic Movie Review 9739

Leslie Thomas scripts from his own novel, but is the now iconic Seventies cast that is the making of the 1977 British army sex comedy Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers. Director Norman Cohen’s 1977 British army […]

May, 09

The Virgin Soldiers *** (1969, Lynn Redgrave, Hywel Bennett, Nigel Davenport, Nigel Patrick, Rachel Kempson) – Classic Movie Review 7707

Hywel Bennett stars in The Virgin Soldiers (1969) as Private Brigg sent to Singapore where he falls for army daughter Phillipa Raskin (Lynn Redgrave). Leslie Thomas’s 1966 comic novel, based on his British Army experiences as […]

Oct, 27

Cult of the Cobra ** (1955, Faith Domergue, Richard Long, Marshall Thompson, Kathleen Hughes) – Classic Movie Review 7230

‘Can a woman’s beauty be changed to a thing of terror?’ Yes, apparently it can. Director Francis D Lyon’s 1955 American black-and-white horror film Cult of the Cobra stars Faith Domergue as Lisa Moya, who heads a […]

Jun, 28

Sunshine on Leith *** (2013, George MacKay, Kevin Guthrie, Peter Mullan, Jane Horrocks, Paul Brannigan, Freya Mavor) – Movie Review

Two Scots soldiers coming home from serving in Afghanistan link arms and dance and sing along the streets of Edinburgh’s old town. How gay is that? If you’re not expecting a musical, or if you’re […]

Sep, 27

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