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The Mountain **½ (1956, Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Claire Trevor, William Demarest, E G Marshall, Richard Arlen) Classic Movie Review 3398

Talented producer-director Edward Dmytryk’s high-climbing 1956 drama provides more evidence that mountain movies are fiendishly tricky to do, as they higher they climb the farther they fall. Spencer Tracy and Robert Wagner play brothers Zachary […]

Feb, 22

Broken Lance **** (1954, Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Earl Holliman, Hugh O’Brian) – Classic Movie Review 3396

Director Edward Dmytryk’s 1954 complex, consistently rewarding adult Western film Broken Lance is basically an unofficial reworking of Edward G Robinson’s House of Strangers (1947) with a heavy debt to King Lear, with Shakespeare’s daughters […]

Feb, 21

The Bridge at Remagen **** (1969, George Segal, Robert Vaughn, Ben Gazzara, Bradford Dillman, E G Marshall, Peter van Eyck) – Classic Movie Review 2,937

The 1969 American Second World War film The Bridge at Remagen is intelligent, effective and exciting old-style film-making. George Segal, Ben Gazzara and Robert Vaughn head a sterling ensemble cast. Based on a real-life true story, director John […]

Oct, 01

13 Rue Madeleine **** (1947, James Cagney, Annabella, Richard Conte, Frank Latimore) – Classic Movie Review 2602

Director Henry Hathaway’s 1947 wartime spy thriller stars James Cagney, Annabella, Richard Conte and Frank Latimore. Like the previous year’s Cloak and Dagger, it is a tribute to Office of Strategic Services (OSS) operations in […]

Jun, 14

Superman II **** (1980, Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Terence Stamp, Sarah Douglas, Jack O’Halloran) – Classic Movie Review 2240

Superman II was filmed back to back with the 1978 Superman and was three quarters completed when tensions arose between director Richard Donner and the producers Alexander and Ilya Salkind and a decision was made […]

Mar, 07

Absolute Power *** (1997, Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris) – Classic Movie Review 1829

This improbable but modestly good and moderately exciting 1997 thriller stars a usefully employed Clint Eastwood as a veteran career thief named Luther Whitney who witnesses a horrific crime involving the US President. Whitney is a […]

Nov, 10

Compulsion **** (1959, Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman, Orson Welles, E G Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 1,674

Richard Fleischer’s compulsive 1959 real-life thriller film Compulsion provides an engrossing and distinguished version of the deeply disturbing 1924 Chicago Leopold and Loeb murder case. Director Richard Fleischer’s compulsive 1959 real-life thriller film Compulsion provides […]

Sep, 14

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