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House of Bamboo ***½ (1955, Robert Stack, Robert Ryan, Sessue Hayakawa, Brad Dexter, Shirley Yamaguchi, Cameron Mitchell, Biff Elliot) – Classic Movie Review 3465

Cult writer-director Samuel Fuller’s good-looking 1955 film noir crime thriller about an American protection racket in Tokyo is commendably gritty, tough and edgy. The always reliable actor Robert Stack stars as the undercover agent, US […]

Mar, 11

Hell and High Water **** (1954, Richard Widmark, Bella Darvi, Victor Francen, Cameron Mitchell, Gene Evans, David Wayne) – Classic Movie Review 3457

20th Century Fox’s complex, nail-biting, labyrinthine Cold War thriller about an American submarine’s mission up to the Arctic to put a spoke in the wheels of a Chinese conspiracy to start a war against America […]

Mar, 07

The Big Red One **** (1980, Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine) – Classic Movie Review 3407

Writer-director Samuel Fuller’s semi-autobiographical 1980 war film is spellbinding. His raw, realistic screenplay is based on Fuller’s own experiences of World War Two, as true to historical facts and his personal philosophy as he could make it. The […]

Feb, 25

A Fuller Life ***½ (2013, Samuel Fuller, James Franco, Jennifer Beals, Joe Dante, Tim Roth, Wim Wenders, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Bill Duke) – Movie Review

A Fuller Life is a must-see documentary on the life and movies of maverick film director Sam Fuller, poignantly directed by his daughter Samantha, who bursts with curiosity and pride about her dad. Friends and […]

May, 12

Pickup on South Street ***** (1953, Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter) – Classic Movie Review 2069

Writer-director Samuel Fuller’s brutal 1953 hard-boiled Cold War spy film noir thriller is a little masterpiece of its kind, one of the cult film-maker’s great noir classics. Richard Widmark stars at his arrogant, menacing snarling […]

Jan, 11

The American Friend [Der Amerikanische Freund] **** (1977, Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain) – Classic Movie Review 132

‘There’s no such thing as a perfect murder. That’s just a parlour game, trying to dream one up. Of course you could say there are a lot of unsolved murders. That’s different.’ Patricia Highsmith’s brilliant, […]

Aug, 07

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