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Hannibal [Annibale] ** (1959, Victor Mature, Gabriele Ferzetti, Rita Gam) – Classic Movie Review 3499

Victor Mature packed up his trunk and went off to Belgrade, Serbia, to film directors Edgar G Ulmer and Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia’s 1959 Italian historical adventure movie about the Carthaginian general Hannibal (247-182 BC). In the story, […]

Mar, 24

The Tartars [I Tartari] *** (1961, Orson Welles, Victor Mature, Liana Orfei) – Classic Movie Review 2668

Director Richard Thorpe’s Italian/Yugoslavian-made 1961 epic The Tartars [I Tartari] stars Orson Welles as Burundai, leader of the nasty Tartars, who battle the apparently less nasty Vikings, led by Oleg, played by Victor Mature. This […]

Jul, 06

The Egyptian * (1954, Edmund Purdom, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Peter Ustinov, Gene Tierney) – Classic Movie Review 2252

For this 1954 movie set in a before-Christ era 18th-dynasty Egypt, a wan-seeming Edmund Purdom replaced Marlon Brando as Sinuhe, a poor orphan boy who becomes a brilliant physician. And, accompanied by his friend Horemheb […]

Mar, 11

Demetrius and the Gladiators *** (1954, Victor Mature, Susan Hayward, Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, Anne Bancroft, Jay Robinson) – Classic Movie Review 2251

Director Delmer Daves’s routine but entertaining 1954 sword-and-sandal follow-up to the 20th Century Fox blockbuster movie The Robe is cinema’s only sequel to a biblical epic. Made in CinemaScope and Technicolor, it was another huge hit, grossing $26million […]

Mar, 10

The Robe *** (1953, Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Michael Rennie) – Classic Movie Review 2,248

The conscientious 1953 biblical epic film The Robe stars Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature and Michael Rennie, and is notable for being the first film ever to be released in CinemaScope. There are five […]

Mar, 09

Cry of the City **** (1948, Victor Mature, Richard Conte, Shelley Winters, Fred Clark) – Classic Movie Review 2162

Director Robert Siodmak’s notable 1948 thriller stars Victor Mature as a cop, Police Lieutenant Candella, who sets out to hunt down his old school buddy, petty crook Martin Rome (Richard Conte), who has shot a […]

Feb, 09

My Darling Clementine ***** (1946, Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell, Victor Mature) – Classic Movie Review 2081

Director John Ford’s splendid 1946 back and white Western tells a fanciful version of the tale of the Gunfight at the OK Corral. Career-best portrayals by Henry Fonda as a thin-lipped, tough, resolute lawman Wyatt […]

Jan, 17

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