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Underworld USA **** (1961, Cliff Robertson, Dolores Dorn, Beatrice Kay, Larry Gates, Robert Emhardt, Paul Dubov, Richard Rust) – Classic Movie Review 3656

‘The Facts… The Faces… The Film That Cracks America’s Organized Crime Syndicate Wide Open!’ Writer-producer-director Samuel Fuller’s tough, hard-hitting 1961 neo-noir revenge crime drama thriller Underworld USA is lifted way out of the rut by […]

May, 04

The Big Show ** (1961, Esther Williams, Cliff Robertson, Robert Vaughn, Margia Dean, Nehemiah Persoff, David Nelson) – Classic Movie Review 3400

This familiar-feeling big top melodrama, with its old tale of circus family conflicts, is a sneaky reworking of themes from the big-city drama House of Strangers (1949) and the Western Broken Lance (1954) without actually […]

Feb, 22

Gidget *** (1959, Sandra Dee, James Darren, Cliff Robertson, Arthur O’Connell, Mary LaRoche) – Classic Movie Review 3384

Sandra Dee stars in director Paul Wendkos’s wholesome-as-apple-pie 1959 teen comedy as  young Francie Lawrence aka the Gidget, who is initiated into the California surf culture during one formative summer. As a result, she falls […]

Feb, 19

Obsession *** (1976, Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, John Lithgow) – Classic Movie Review 2188

For director Brian De Palma’s teasing and intriguing 1976 mystery thriller, writer Paul Schrader bases his screenplay on the movie buff’s story he concocted with De Palma. Schrader and De Palma no doubt intend an homage […]

Feb, 18

Escape from L A ** (1996, Kurt Russell, Cliff Robertson, Georges Corraface, A J Langer, Steve Buscemi, Stacy Keach, Bruce Campbell, Peter Fonda, Michelle Forbes, Pam Grier, Valeria Golino) – Classic Movie Review 1176

Director John Carpenter and star Kurt Russell reunite in 1996 for a fairly feeble, low-imagination, low-adrenaline sequel to 1981’s Escape from New York that plays more like a re-make. They shouldn’t have proceeded without a […]

May, 03

Three Days of the Condor **** (1975, Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Max Von Sydow, Cliff Robertson) – Classic Movie Review 1154

Director Sydney Pollack’s sizzling 1975 suspense classic thriller offers an eagerly taken perfect role for Robert Redford as Joseph Turner, an innocent bookish CIA researcher on the run from the evil Joubert (Max Von Sydow) […]

Apr, 28

Spider-Man **** (2002, Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Willem Dafoe, James Franco, Cliff Robertson, Rosemary Harris, J K Simmons, Bill Nunn) – Classic Film Review 582

You’ll believe a boy can spin a web and crawl a wall in Spider-Man, as the last great comic book hero finally gets a film of his own in 2002 thanks to the surges in […]

Dec, 28

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