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The Secret Invasion *** (1964, Stewart Granger, Raf Vallone, Henry Silva, Mickey Rooney, Edd Byrnes, William Campbell) – Classic Movie Review 7744

Director Roger Corman and writer R Wright Campbell rework their story for Corman’s first film as director, the 1955 Western Five Guns West as a 1964 World War Two wartime mission action thriller involving convicts, in […]

Nov, 03

The Angry Hills ** (1959, Robert Mitchum, Stanley Baker, Gia Scala, Elisabeth Müller) – Classic Movie Review 7594

The 1959 The Angry Hills stars the always-watchable Robert ‘Old Snake Eyes’ Mitchum in a Leon Uris World War Two-set wartime thriller under ace film-maker Robert Aldrich’s cannily stalwart direction. But, with these people, you […]

Sep, 18

Two Thousand Women *** (1944, Phyllis Calvert, Flora Robson, Patricia Roc, Renée Houston, Anne Crawford, Jean Kent) – Classic Movie Review 6970

Co-writer/ director Frank Launder’s solid 1944 British wartime comedy drama from Gainsborough Pictures offers plenty of suspense, wartime atmosphere and detail, and some cheerful humour thrown in as well. It stars the formidable line-up of Phyllis […]

Apr, 27

Passport to Suez ** (1943, Warren William, Ann Savage, Eric Blore, Gavin Muir, Robert Stanford, Sheldon Leonard, Lloyd Bridges) – Classic Movie Review 6841

Director André De Toth’s 1943 thriller is a very passable, more than decently done Lone Wolf series entry, with Warren William back one more time in the last of his nine films as the jewel […]

Mar, 22

Reunion **** (1989, Jason Robards, Christien Anholt, Samuel West) – Classic Movie Review 6804

Reunion is the haunting story of the broken ‘enchanted friendship’ of two teenage boys of different backgrounds in 1932-33 Germany, with Harold Pinter’s distinguished screenplay adapting Fred Uhlman’s novel. Count Konradin von Lohenburg: ‘I believe in […]

Mar, 14

The Cheap Detective ** (1978, Peter Falk, Ann-Margret, John Houseman, Louise Fletcher, Nicol Williamson, Fernando Lamas, Madeline Kahn, Dom DeLuise) – Classic Movie Review 6793

The actors seem to be having a good time in the 1978 comedy The Cheap Detective sending up Humphrey Bogart’s films in a 1940 San Francisco-set parody with Peter Falk as a Bogart-style character called […]

Mar, 12

Escape to Athena *** (1979, Roger Moore, David Niven, Elliott Gould, Sonny Bono, Telly Savalas, Claudia Cardinale, Stefanie Powers, Richard Roundtree) – Classic Movie Review 6792

Director George Pan Cosmatos’s game, high-spirited 1979 British war caper is endearingly daft hokum from Lord Grade just before Raise the Titanic sank his company, ITC, with an all-star cast in a World War Two […]

Mar, 12

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