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The Treasure of Pancho Villa ** (1955, Rory Calhoun, Shelley Winters, Gilbert Roland, Joseph Calleia) – Classic Movie Review 11,006

Director George Sherman’s 1955 Western film The Treasure of Pancho Villa is based on a story by J Robert Bren and Gladys Atwater, and stars Rory Calhoun, Shelley Winters, Gilbert Roland and Joseph Calleia. The […]

Mar, 09

Escape from Zahrain * (1962, Yul Brynner, Sal Mineo, Jack Warden, Madlyn Rhue, Anthony Caruso) – Classic Movie Review 9858

Director Ronald Neame’s 1962 Escape from Zahrain is escapist adventure nonsense in which Sharif (Yul Brynner), an Arabian captured rebel leader, is freed by young revolutionaries and flees from the law from the fictitious Arab […]

Jun, 03

The Working Class Go to Heaven [La Classe Operaia Va in Paradiso] ***** (1971, Gian Maria Volontè, Mariangela Melato, Gino Pernice) – Classic Movie Review 8607 –

Director Elio Petri’s 1971 film The Working Class Go to Heaven [La Classe Operaia Va in Paradiso] stars Gian Maria Volontè as factory worker Lulù Massa, who upsets his co-workers and mistress Lidia (Mariangela Melato) […]

Jun, 18

The Revolutionary *** (1970, Jon Voight, Seymour Cassel, Robert Duvall, Jennifer Salt) – Classic Movie Review 7934

Jon Voight gives a strong and convincing performance as the troubled college revolutionary – just called A – in director Paul Williams’s thoughtful, well-acted, understated and intelligent 1970 film The Revolutionary. Based on his own […]

Dec, 22

Frida *** (2002, Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Geoffrey Rush, Antonio Banderas, Roger Rees, Diego Luna) – Classic Movie Review 7195

Director Julie Taymor’s 2002 film Frida is a passionate, swirling and colourful biopic of doomed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, based on the book by Hayden Herrera. It won two Oscars: Best Original Score (Elliot Goldenthal) and Best […]

Jun, 19

Old Gringo ***½ (1989, Jane Fonda, Gregory Peck, Jimmy Smits) – Classic Movie Review 6882

Director Luis Puenzo’s 1989 historical romantic adventure drama stars Jane Fonda as Harriet Winslow, an American spinster who takes a job looking after the children of a wealthy family caught up in the revolution in […]

Apr, 03

A Town Called Bastard [A Town Called Hell] **½ (1971, Telly Savalas, Robert Shaw, Stella Stevens, Martin Landau, Michael Craig, Fernando Rey, Dudley Sutton) – Classic Movie Review 6345

Director Robert Parrish’s cold-blooded, crudely made and excessively violent 1971 Spaghetti Western (or paella Western as it is filmed in Spain), with its main assets in the dependable cast – especially Robert Shaw, Martin Landau, […]

Dec, 02

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