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The Benson Murder Case *** (1930, William Powell, William ‘Stage’ Boyd, Eugene Pallette) – Classic Movie Review 11,311

Director Frank Tuttle’s 1930 American pre-Code crime mystery thriller film The Benson Murder Case, written by creator S S Van Dine and Bartlett Cormack, is the third of four films to star William Powell as […]

Jun, 15

Doctor Bull *** (1933, Will Rogers, Marian Nixon, Vera Allen) – Classic Movie Review 10,185

Director John Ford’s 1933 black and white drama Doctor Bull is a good showcase for Will Rogers, with special interest as a Ford film, in the first of a trio of their collaborations. Rogers plays […]

Aug, 16

Carbine Williams *** (1952, James Stewart, Jean Hagen, Wendell Corey) – Classic Movie Review 10,174

Director Richard Thorpe’s 1952 black and white biographical crime drama Carbine Williams stars James Stewart, who is effectively cast as David ‘Marsh’ Marshall Williams, an embittered jailed bootlegger, who, in the jail tool-shop, invents a new gun […]

Aug, 13

Trooper Hook *** (1957, Joel McCrea, Barbara Stanwyck, Earl Holliman) – Classic Movie Review 9215

Director Charles Marquis Warren’s 1957 star-powered black and white action Western film Trooper Hook stars veteran stalwarts Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea. McCrea plays Sergeant Clovis Hook, who escorts Cora Sutliff (Stanwyck) and her half-breed […]

Jan, 02

Trader Horn *** (1931, Harry Carey Sr, Edwina Booth, Duncan Renaldo) – Classic Movie Review 9187

Director W S Van Dyke II’s 1931 adventure movie Trader Horn stars Harry Carey Sr as explorer Aloysius ‘Trader’ Horn, who meets danger and understandably hostile locals in the jungle of darkest Africa of the […]

Dec, 24

The Holcroft Covenant (1985, Michael Caine, Anthony Andrews, Victoria Tennant, Lilli Palmer) – Classic Movie Review 8526

Director John Frankenheimer’s 1985 The Holcroft Covenant is a risible political thriller based on Robert Ludlum’s potboiling yarn about the clash over the fate of a $4,000 million potentially dangerous bequest by a German General […]

May, 31

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