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Love & Money ** (1981, Ray Sharkey, Ornella Muti, Klaus Kinski, Armand Assante) – Classic Movie Review 11,677

Writer-producer-director James Toback’s 1981 thriller Love & Money stars Ray Sharkey, Ornella Muti, Klaus Kinski and Armand Assante. That great eccentric Klaus Kinski stars as a pop-eyed tycoon, Frederic Stockheinz, who draws LA bank employee […]

Oct, 25

Bananas **** (1971, Woody Allen, Louise Lasser, Carlos Montalbán) – Classic Movie Review 10,295

Director/ co-writer Woody Allen’s 1971 political satire comedy Bananas is rough but ready for raising lots of laughs. Allen also stars as New York milksop consumer products tester Fielding Mellish, who runs off to San […]

Sep, 12

The Dogs of War ** (1980, Christopher Walken, Tom Berenger, Colin Blakely, Winston Ntshona, Hugh Millais, Paul Freeman, JoBeth Williams) – Classic Movie Review 8439

Director John Irvin’s 1980 war movie The Dogs of War is a competent but superficial and conventional all-action version of Frederick Forsyth’s bestseller, with a young-looking Christopher Walken miscast but still intriguing and watchable as […]

May, 06

Man-Trap *** (1961, Jeffrey Hunter, David Janssen, Stella Stevens) – Classic Movie Review 7281

‘Too many men… Too many thrills… Soon – Too much violence!’ Producer/ director Edmond O’Brien makes the most of his rare chance to direct (his second and last after 1954’s Shield for Murder) in 1961’s brisk, capable black […]

Jul, 11

The Wild Geese **** (1978, Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris, Hardy Kruger, Stewart Granger, Jack Watson, Frank Finlay, Kenneth Griffith, Barry Foster) – Classic Movie Review 5489

Director Andrew V McLaglen’s intense, realistic and enjoyable 1978 all-star British blood-and-guts war adventure movie The Wild Geese stars Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris and Hardy Kruger as Colonel Allen Faulkener, Lieutenant Shawn Fynn […]

May, 24

The Alamo * (2004, Dennis Quaid, Billy Bob Thornton, Jason Patric, Patrick Wilson, Emilio Echevarría, Jordi Mollà, Leon Rippy, Marc Blucas) – 5055

‘One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.’ – Colonel William Travis. Remember The Alamo? Well, not this version, anyway, for director John Lee Hancock ‘s misjudged, murky-looking and mostly boring 2004 […]

Feb, 24

The Black Book [Reign of Terror] *** (1949, Robert Cummings, Richard Basehart, Arlene Dahl, Beulah Bondi, Richard Hart, Arnold Moss, Norman Lloyd, Charles McGraw) – Classic Movie Review 3324

Anthony Mann’s 1949 film noir-shot adventure drama The Black Book has a complex plot and a well-researched French Revolution background.  Director Anthony Mann’s 1949 film noir-shot black and white adventure drama The Black Book [Reign […]

Feb, 05

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