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Rosebud * (1975, Peter O’Toole, Richard Attenborough, Cliff Gorman) – Classic Movie Review 6269

Director Otto Preminger’s 1975 terrorist thriller film tells the spectacularly dud tale of wealthy girls abducted by Arabs from the titular yacht Rosebud. A Palestinian terrorist group is responsible. Though more or less a total failure, the […]

Nov, 19

Fathom *** (1967, Raquel Welch, Tony Franciosa, Richard Briers, Clive Revill, Ronald Fraser) – Classic Movie Review 6215

Probably you never expected to see a movie with Raquel Welch and Richard Briers paired up together, but this is it in director Leslie H Martinson’s engagingly daft 1967 British caper. There’s a place for […]

Nov, 09

Joe Versus the Volcano *** (1990, Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, Abe Vigoda, Dan Hedaya, Ossie Davis) – Classic Movie Review 6172

Writer-director John Patrick Shanley’s 1990 dark-toned romantic comedy, satirising and updating Hollywood’s Forties escapist adventure melodramas, is appealing and engaging, even though it is extremely shakily written by Shanley, the Oscar-winning author of Moonstruck. Nevertheless, […]

Nov, 01

There Goes My Heart *** (1938, Fredric March, Virginia Bruce, Patsy Kelly, Nancy Carroll, Eugene Pallette) – Classic Movie Review 5708

Director Norman Z McLeod’s entertaining 1938 romantic comedy stars the formidable team of Fredric March, Virginia Bruce, Patsy Kelly, Nancy Carroll and Eugene Pallette. March plays Bill Spencer, a single reporter who tries to expose […]

Jul, 03

Port of New York *** (1949, Scott Brady, Richard Rober, K T Stevens, Yul Brynner) – Classic Movie Review 5266

Director Laslo Benedek’s 1949 film noir thriller stars a pre-bald Yul Brynner, who makes an auspicious first appearance as the big bad guy Paul Vicola in this story of dope dealing, deceit and death. Scott […]

Apr, 07

The Jewel of the Nile ** (1985, Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito) – Classic Movie Review 4564

Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito re-assemble for director Lewis Teague’s entertaining but less sparkling 1985 adventure sequel to Romancing the Stone. Turner again plays Joan Wilder, the dizzy lady novelist back in trouble […]

Oct, 29

The Woman in Red ** (1935, Barbara Stanwyck, Gene Raymond, John Eldredge, Genevieve Tobin) – Classic Movie Review 4268

Director Robert Florey’s 1935 drama stars Barbara Stanwyck and Gene Raymond as mismatched new couple Shelby and John Wyatt, who struggle through his snobbish family’s dislike of her and charges that she has been fooling […]

Aug, 30

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