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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 9004

The ninth-century tale of Alfred the Great (849 – 899) taking over as King of Wessex (871 – 899) and overlord of England from his feeble older brother Ethelred (Alan Dobie) is turned into a […]

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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