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My Son John * (1952, Robert Walker, Helen Hayes, Van Heflin, Dean Jagger) – Classic Movie Review 9362

Producer-director Leo McCarey’s 1952 drama My Son John is one of the most glaring examples of 50s Hollywood’s rabid anti-communist attitudes with John Jefferson (Robert Walker) ostracised by his all-American family when he returns home […]

Feb, 09

Wee Willie Winkie **** (1937, Shirley Temple, Victor McLaglen, C Aubrey Smith, June Lang) – Classic Movie Review 9282

Rudyard Kipling’s story about a little boy in 19th-century India is adapted as a vehicle for Shirley Temple in director John Ford’s 1937 adventure Wee Willie Winkie. Kipling wrote about Percival Williams, but Temple plays […]

Jan, 20

Alias Jesse James *** (1959, Bob Hope, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey, Gloria Talbott) – Classic Movie Review 9207

Director Norman Z McLeod’s 1958 Western comedy film Alias Jesse James teams Bob Hope with Rhonda Fleming, reunited after The Great Lover (1949). And, plus, Hope was powerful enough as producer to gather a dazzling […]

Dec, 31

Little Nellie Kelly ** (1940, Judy Garland, George Murphy, Charles Winninger) – Classic Movie Review 9202

Director Norman Taurog’s 1940 MGM black and white family musical comedy Little Nellie Kelly is a forgotten, or at any rate overlooked, Judy Garland movie, although it was a hit at the time, earning MGM […]

Dec, 29

Charlie Chan’s Secret ** (1936, Warner Oland, Rosina Lawrence, Charles Quigley) – Classic Movie Review 9038

Director Gordon Wiles’s modest 1935 mystery Charlie Chan’s Secret is set in a creepy old mansion in San Francisco, where Chan (Warner Oland) endures séances, apparitions, a hurled knife, and Herbert Mundin’s insufferable comic butler […]

Oct, 31

Alfred the Great ** (1969, David Hemmings, Michael York, Prunella Ransome, Colin Blakely, Julian Glover, Ian McKellen, Alan Dobie, Peter Vaughan) – Classic Movie Review 9,004

David Hemmings stars as Alfred, who defeats the invading Danes, led by King Guthrum (Michael York), in the wobbly 1969 British historical epic film Alfred the Great. The ninth-century tale of Alfred the Great (849 […]

Oct, 21

The Current War *** (2017, Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Shannon, Tom Holland, Nicholas Hoult, Katherine Waterston, Matthew Macfadyen, Tuppence Middleton) – Movie Review

Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s The Current War is an impressive staging of a fascinating story, with a quartet of intense performances from Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Shannon, Tom Holland and Nicholas Hoult. Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch) and […]

Jul, 27

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