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Battle Hymn ***½ (1957, Rock Hudson, Martha Hyer, Dan Duryea, Anna Kashfi, Don DeFore, Jock Mahoney, Alan Hale Jr) – Classic Movie Review 6,670
Douglas Sirk’s lavish, sentimental, flag-waving 1957 American war film stars Rock Hudson as Lt Colonel Dean Hess, a real-life US fighter pilot in the Korean War who helped to evacuate hundreds of war orphans to safety. Director […]
The One That Got Away **** (1957, Hardy Kruger, Michael Goodliffe, Terence Alexander, Colin Gordon, Alec McCowen) – Classic Movie Review 5790
Director Roy Ward Baker’s exciting 1957 British wartime adventure film The One That Got Away stars Berlin-born Hardy Kruger, who came to Britain to play Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the real-life German wartime pilot shot […]
The Boys Are Back **** (2009, Clive Owen, George MacKay, Nicholas McAnulty, Emma Booth, Laura Fraser, Julia Blake, Chris Haywood) – Classic Movie Review 4420
Clive Owen does a lovely job of acting as Joe Warr, a real-life top British sports writer dad working in Australia. He wins you over just as he wins over his two sons – teen George […]
Hoosiers [Best Shot] **** (1986, Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper) – Classic Movie Review 3485
Gene Hackman stars as a crusty burnt-out coach who trains Fifties Indiana high-school boys for basketball success, in the poignant, complex 1986 sports drama classic film Hoosiers [Best Shot]. Director David Anspaugh’s poignant and complex […]
Black Mass *** (2015, Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dakota Johnson, Kevin Bacon, Peter Sarsgaard, Jesse Plemons, Adam Scott) – Movie Review
Johnny Depp is good, not brilliant, but good, cast against type as real-life diabolical sociopath Whitey Bulger, the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston. Director Scott Cooper’s fascinating but uneven 2015 gangster […]
The Hitch-Hiker **** (1953, Edmond O’Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman) – Classic Movie Review 2563
Director Ida Lupino’s tense and compelling 1953 film noir The Hitch-Hiker has two fishing-trip travellers Roy Collins and Gilbert Bowen (Edmond O’Brien, Frank Lovejoy) leaving their wives and picking up the sinister hitch-hiker Emmett Myers (William Talman), a […]
The Amityville Horror *** (1979, James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger) – Classic Movie Review 2520
The surprise blockbuster 1979 supernatural horror movie The Amityville Horror recycles the old, old haunted house story once more. It has been used over and over again and yet it is popular every time, though […]