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More than just a B-Western but not really an epic, the budget was modest and the cast affordable despite several big names.
Gregg Henry, Chris Lemmon Ralph Seymour, Jamie Rose, Mike Kellin and Katie Powell round off a modest cast of believable deliveries.
This is a very modest, very lovely movie with a great score by Hoagy Carmichael and Frank Loesser with a standout number, We're The Couple In The Castle, that is totally evocative of the period and harks back to Penthouse Serenade just as the opening premise (Hoppity's coming) may well have inspired Fred Saidy and Yip Harburg's opening (Woody's Coming) in Finian's Rainbow six years later.
There is definitely an ample amount of blood, gore & action in the film with a modest amount of suspense.
I knew him well in the last three years or so, and he was a generous, warm, and modest person.
The French Babbette appears at the modest house of two Danish sisters wet, cold, and alone.
Writer-director Dean Bell offered many surprises and engaging moments in this modest yet compelling road film.
Mute Witness is a modest, yet very solid thriller that never really received the attention or good comments it deserves.
I mean, it was not like Mel Gibson or Bruce Willis would do it, he was sensitive and modest.
After achieving modest success through her appearance in 'Lassie Come Home (1943),' young Elizabeth Taylor, age 12, landed her first leading role as Velvet Brown, a passionate schoolgirl with an obsession for horses.
All Nazis are bad, crazy, too proud, and Americans are so modest yet so capable and sensible and human.
Of all the films I have seen Lee direct, this was the brightest and more modest of his films.
There are some more killings, some modest paper work, and finally, the doctor vanishes to where ever rat faced doctors go.
But the modest conceits of this material are lost or misunderstood by the movie's creators who are in full-on "shallow blockbuster" mode.
With our wigs, modest attire, and separate seating, we're a pretty easy target already.
This movie is a modest effort by Spike Lee.
Overall, a mediocre (but decent by SciFi Original standards) movie that rates a modest 4.
Since the start of her career in the 70's and vastly throughout the exuberant 80's, Elvira (Cassandra Peterson) has grown into a modest icon and genuine cult figure in the world of horror & bad monster movies.
While the film has pretty modest pretensions, it makes the most of the material.
This is a modest, character driven comedy, filmed in Brazil on a low budget.
Edward G. Robinson is ultimately impressive in his last role and there's a great (but too modest) supportive role for Joseph Cotton ("Baron Blood", "The Abominable Dr. Phibes").
In many ways the film would have worked better as a shorter (say, 60 minutes), more modest piece.
There's good supporting work from Marjorie Rambeau and Glenda Farrell (who never got as far as she should have), and Jo Swerling's screenplay is modest and efficient.
MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS (as well as SO DARK THE NIGHT from the following year) introduced a director who had mastered the rare and delicate art telling a dark and probing tale swiftly and efficiently on the most modest of budgets.
I have always thought she is very modest, and that's why it is not proper at all to show her in bed with Cassio - although it was happening only in Othello's imagination.
Despite the occasional instance or two of indecipherable, stiff-upper-lip British gibberish, I found this picture to be a winningly modest entertainment, and well presented on this crisp-looking Anchor Bay DVD.
Eytan Fox did it again : move the viewer's heart in a modest story taking place in an overwhelming mess.
Fred Astaire's first forays into the Western genre, the TV medium and moustache-sporting came via this modest "old men's movie" about a trio of retired Texas Rangers who come together to help their old superior who has been wrongly jailed for robbery and murder.
Persons of modest strength survive the traumas of life, why couldn't Claudine?
Like "Cry Havoc" (also made in 1943 but with a small cast and a modest set), this is a film about American Army nurses stranded on Corregidor, Philippines during the horrific time when General MacArthur was ordered to retreat to Australia.
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