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Posts Tagged "Sidney Lumet"

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The Wiz ** (1978, Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell, Ted Ross, Richard Pryor, Lena Horne) – Classic Movie Review 3629

Director Sidney Lumet’s 1978 movie version of the hit Broadway show, an all-African American musical of The Wizard of Oz, is generally much maligned and unloved. It was advertised as ‘The Motown remake of The […]

Apr, 29

The Hill **** (1965, Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Ian Hendry, Alfred Lynch, Roy Kinnear, Michael Redgrave, Ossie Davis, Jack Watson) – Classic Movie Review 2114

Director Sidney Lumet’s distinguished, brutal 1965 military drama The Hill is a showcase for tour de force acting from Sean Connery as Joe Roberts, one of the five new prisoners being punished in a British […]

Jan, 25

The Deadly Affair ***** (1966, James Mason, Maximilian Schell, Simone Signoret, Harry Andrews, Harriet Andersson) – Classic Movie Review 2113

Producer-director Sidney Lumet’s important, serious-minded 1966 spy thriller from John le Carré’s Call for the Dead is, as it should be, chilling, dour and downbeat, but rivetingly compelling. James Mason plays le Carré’s famous British […]

Jan, 25

The Morning After **½ (1986, Jane Fonda, Jeff Bridges, Raul Julia) – Classic Movie Review 2044

‘Last night she drank to forget. Today she woke up to a murder. Is he her last hope or the last man she should trust? The Morning After …can be murder”. Director Sidney Lumet’s potboiling […]

Jan, 04

Fail Safe ***** (1964, Henry Fonda, Larry Hagman, Walter Matthau, Dan O’Herlihy, Frank Overton, Edward Binns, Fritz Weaver, Sorrell Booke, Dom DeLuise) – Classic Movie Review 1379

Director Sidney Lumet’s brilliant 1964 nuclear war thriller is sweatily tense throughout and often heart-stopping. Despite its ultra-gripping, important story, dedicated, vital performances, uber-tense mood and deadly message, it was sadly and unfairly wiped out […]

Jun, 29

Murder on the Orient Express **** (1974, Albert Finney, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery, Vanessa Redgrave) – Classic Movie Review 1304

Director Sidney Lumet’s sumptuous, famous 1974 film mystery set a cinema trend, starting a long, profitable train of Agatha Christie hit movies. This film’s tagline is ‘The greatest cast of suspicious characters ever involved in murder.’ […]

Jun, 07

Gloria *** (1999, Sharon Stone, Jeremy Northam, George C Scott, Jean-Luke Figueroa, Cathy Moriarty, Bonnie Bedelia, Mike Starr) – Classic Film Review 1,202

Sharon Stone is a powerful and attractive star presence as a gangster’s moll on the run, in Sidney Lumet’s rickety 1999 Mob thriller remake Gloria. Director Sidney Lumet’s efficient and tolerable 1999 remake of John […]

May, 17

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