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Sodom and Gomorrah ** (1962, Stewart Granger, Pier Angeli, Stanley Baker, Anouk Aimée, Rossana Podestà) – Classic Movie Review 10,565

Ah yes, ‘The Twin Citadels of Sin!’ ‘The cities that mocked the very name of God… The vengeance that tore the Earth asunder!’ Director Robert Aldrich’s costly 1962 Italian, French, US co-production Sodom and Gomorrah [Sodoma […]

Nov, 19

J W Coop **** (1971, Cliff Robertson, Geraldine Page, Cristina Ferrare) – Classic Movie Review 10,564

The 1971 Western drama film J W Coop is a triumph for co-writer-producer-director Cliff Robertson, who also stars as the rodeo cowboy J W Coop who rides back to confront his kinfolks after a decade behind bars, […]

Nov, 19

The Honkers *** (1972, James Coburn, Lois Nettleton, Slim Pickens) Classic Movie Review 10,563

Director Steve Ihnat’s 1972 film The Honkers is an action comedy drama with a western setting, and stars James Coburn, who is compellingly amiable in a profile of a middle-ageing, philandering rodeo rider, Lew Lathrop. […]

Nov, 19

Terminus **** (1961, documentary, director John Schlesinger) – Classic Movie Review 10,562

John Schlesinger’s imaginative, classic 1961 documentary short Terminus, now poignantly dated, about a day in the life of London’s Waterloo station, was made for British Transport Films. It won the 1962 BAFTA Film Award for […]

Nov, 18

Teresa *** (1951, Pier Angeli, John Ericson, Patricia Collinge, Richard Bishop) – Classic Movie Review 10,561

Director Fred Zinnemann’s earnest 1951 MGM black and white drama Teresa stars John Ericson as GI Philip Cass, who serves in Italy during World War Two, marries an Italian girl and brings his new Italian wife […]

Nov, 18

Tenue de Soirée *** (1986, Gérard Depardieu, Michel Blanc, Miou-Miou) – Classic Movie Review 10,560

Writer-director Bertrand Blier’s 1986 crime comedy drama Tenue de Soirée [Evening Dress] [Ménage] stars Gérard Depardieu as a rough-trade bisexual robber who talks a couple (Michel Blanc, Miou-Miou) into a threesome and a crime. This […]

Nov, 18

Term of Trial *** (1962, Laurence Olivier, Simone Signoret, Sarah Miles, Terence Stamp, Hugh Griffith) – Classic Movie Review 10,559

The compelling 1962 British realist drama film Term of Trial is about a student (Sarah Miles) who develops a crush on her schoolteacher (Laurence Olivier), leading him into serious trouble. ‘I always knew she was […]

Nov, 18

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