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The Fourth War ** (1990, Roy Scheider, Jürgen Prochnow, Tim Reid, Lara Harris, Harry Dean Stanton) – Classic Movie Review 8528

Director John Frankenheimer’s 1990 Cold War drama The Fourth War stars Roy Scheider and Jürgen Prochnow as cold warriors who fight it out in the snow, in this old-fashioned action thriller set where the Western […]

May, 31

Bitter Victory **** (1957, Richard Burton, Curd Jürgens, Ruth Roman) – Classic Movie Review 6698

Curd Jürgens stars as Major David Brand, a jittery, cowardly leader awarded a medal he did not merit for leading a British commando raid on Rommel’s desert fortress headquarters, and Burton as his number two, Captain Jimmy Leith, an […]

Feb, 16

Torpedo Run *** (1958, Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Diane Brewster, Dean Jones, L Q Jones, Philip Ober) – Classic Movie Review 4437

Director Joseph Pevney’s edgy, intelligent and capably directed 1958 World War Two action adventure is helped by Glenn Ford’s earnest, strong-note star role as dogged, semi-crazed American submarine commander Barney Doyle. He vows to stop […]

Sep, 30

Forbidden Planet ***** (1956, Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen) – Classic Movie Review 2555

Director Fred McLeod Wilcox’s 1956 sci-fi version of Shakespeare’s The Tempest is a genre classic, haunting and beautiful looking, gaining an immense amount of other-worldly mood and atmosphere from being all artificially filmed in the […]

Jun, 04

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea **** (1954, Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Peter Lorre, Paul Lukas) – Classic Movie Review 2,517

Walt Disney’s thrilling, double Oscar-winning 1954 film version of the famous Jules Verne classic novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is one of the best of its sci-fi adventure type.  Director Richard Fleischer’s thrilling, double […]

May, 25

Star Trek: Insurrection *** (1998, Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, F Murray Abraham) – Classic Movie Review 1924

Jonathan Frakes returns as director for the 1998 ninth Star Trek episode, the third movie featuring the Next Generation characters. It is a very pleasantly entertaining episode, a notch up from Frakes’s previous movie, Star […]

Dec, 06

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