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Up Periscope *** (1959, James Garner, Edmond O’Brien, Andra Martin) – Classic Movie Review 8325

Director Gordon Douglas’s 1959 Warner Bros drama Up Periscope is a tale of wartime underwater high-jinks, graced with James Garner as an underwater demolitions expert, US Navy Lieutenant Ken Braden, and Edmond O’Brien as an […]

Apr, 02

Hanover Street * (1979, Harrison Ford, Lesley-Anne Down, Christopher Plummer) – Classic Movie Review 7785

After hitting the big time with Star Wars, Harrison Ford went into something completely different – and surely regretted it. He plays – forlornly – David, an American bomber pilot stationed in England who meets […]

Nov, 14

Attack Force Z *** (1981, John Phillip Law, Mel Gibson, Sam Neill, Chris Haywood, John Waters) – Classic Movie Review 7333

Director Tim Burstall’s 1981 action adventure Attack Force Z is short and sharp, with good work from a cast headed by the unfairly fading American star John Phillip Law (once the archangel in Barbarella) as […]

Jul, 23

True Lies **** (1994, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Bill Paxton, Art Malik, Tom Arnold) – Classic Movie Review 5071

So Arnold Schwarzenegger is the new James Bond in 1994, or at any rate somebody very like 007, in director James Cameron’s relentlessly paced, spoofy-toned, escapist gung-ho action thriller. Harry Tasker (Schwarzenegger) leads a double life […]

Feb, 27

Destination Tokyo *** (1943, Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale Jr, Tom Tully, Warner Anderson, John Forsythe, Dane Clark, Faye Emerson) – Classic Movie Review 4,312

You don’t expect to find Cary Grant in heroic mode, at the helm of a submarine, in a World War Two action movie. But here he is in the exciting, persuasive 1943 wartime propaganda film […]

Sep, 07

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