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Fedora **** (1978, William Holden, Marthe Keller, Hildegarde Knef, José Ferrer) – Classic Movie Review 2661

Director Billy Wilder’s horribly undervalued final film from 1978 is fittingly a report on the movie business’s excesses and an attack on Hollywood’s youth-oriented culture, told in flashback. Marthe Keller stars as a dotty, reclusive old […]

Jul, 03

Stalag 17 ***** (1953, William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger, Robert Strauss, Harvey Lembeck, Richard Erdman, Peter Graves, Neville Brand, Sig Ruman) – Classic Movie Review 2531

Director Billy Wilder delivers a typically darkly comic adaptation of Donald Bevan’s and Edmund Trzcinski’s Broadway stage play about American airmen’s life in a POW camp in Germany in 1944 towards the end of World […]

May, 28

Executive Suite **** (1954, William Holden, Barbara Stanwyck, June Allyson, Fredric March, Louis Calhern, Walter Pidgeon, Shelley Winters, Paul Douglas, Dean Jagger, Nina Foch) – Classic Movie Review 2526

‘Behind the lighted tower windows the conflict of love and power is reckless and daring!’ Director Robert Wise’s Oscar-nominated 1954 drama stars Barbara Stanwyck as Julia O Tredway, who oversees the candidates for new board […]

May, 27

The Bridge on the River Kwai ***** (1957, Alec Guinness, William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa) – Classic Movie Review 1396

Director David Lean’s 1957 dramatisation of Pierre Boulle’s 1952 French novel about the building of a Burma railway bridge under Japanese coercion by British prisoners-of-war is an enduring, magnificent achievement. It won seven Academy Awards, […]

Jul, 05

Born Yesterday ***** (1950, Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden) – Classic Movie Review 1307

Director George Cukor’s 1950 comedy classic stars the scintillating Judy Holliday, who won a Best Actress Oscar as Billie Dawn, the delightfully ditzy showgirl mistress of brash and boorish millionaire junk-metal dealer Harry Brock (Broderick […]

Jun, 08

The Towering Inferno ***** (1974, Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, William Holden, Fred Astaire, Richard Chamberlain, Robert Wagner, Faye Dunaway) – Classic Movie Review 1207

A blaze breaks out in the Glass Tower, a state-of-the-art San Francisco high-rise building during the glitzy opening ceremony attended by a host of city celebrities, in director John Guillermin‘s terrifyingly nail-biting 1974 skyscraper-on-fire movie The […]

May, 12

Network ***** (1976, Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Robert Duvall, Beatrice Straight) – Classic Movie Review 1,191

Director Sidney Lumet’s 1976 four-Oscar-winner film Network has proved a highly regarded, lasting classic, an American satirical black comedy-drama gem. It has a great script and even greater acting. Network became only the second film to win three of the […]

May, 09

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