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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

The Owl and the Pussycat **** (1970, Barbra Streisand, George Segal, Robert Klein, Allen Garfield, Buck Henry) – Classic Movie Review 2799

Barbra Streisand and George Segal are happily teamed and on their finest powerhouse comic form in director Herbert Ross’s hilarious 1970 comedy. Streisand stars as a New York hooker called Doris and Segal plays her new, bookseller neighbour, […]

Aug, 11

No Way to Treat a Lady **** (1968, Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, George Segal) – Classic Movie Review 2734

Lee Remick plays Kate Palmer, Segal’s bewildered gentile girlfriend, who unfortunately attracts a serial killer (Rod Steiger)’s evil attentions, in director Jack Smight’s tense, clever and extremely creepy 1968 black comedy thriller. Remick had everything […]

Jul, 24

King Rat **** (1965, George Segal, Tom Courtenay, James Fox, John Mills, Denholm Elliott, James Donald) – Classic Movie Review 2422

George Segal makes the most of one his best opportunities as the unscrupulous wheeler-dealing American fast-talker Corporal King, in Bryan Forbes’s excellent, well-crafted 1965 film King Rat. After Paul Newman and Steve McQueen turned the […]

Apr, 24

Flirting with Disaster *** (1996, Ben Stiller, Patricia Arquette, Téa Leoni, George Segal, Mary Tyler Moore, Alan Alda, Lily Tomlin) – Classic Movie Review 1664

Writer-director David O Russell’s offbeat, engaging, highly energised 1996 comedy is his promising debut feature film, after two shorts. It centres on adopted Mel Coplin (Ben Stiller)’s disaster-strewn attempts to find his real parents on a […]

Sep, 12

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ***** (1966, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis) – Classic Movie Review 1395

Director Mike Nichols brings Edward Albee’s vitriolic, soul-searching 1962 play to the screen in a savage, razor-edged 1966 movie. It sounds like fingernails scraping down a blackboard. You might want to turn away from the […]

Jul, 05

The Mirror Has Two Faces *** (1996, Barbra Streisand, Jeff Bridges, Lauren Bacall) – Classic Movie Review 1298

Both faces belong to Barbra Streisand, and (as usual) several hats too, as she’s star, director, co-producer and songwriter of this 1996 release, then her first film for six years. for all its apparent serious […]

Jun, 06

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