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De Sade * (1969, Keir Dullea, Senta Berger, Lilli Palmer) – Classic Movie Review 9033

Director Cy Endfield’s 1969 biographical historical drama De Sade [Das Ausschweissende Leben des Marquis De Sade] is a flop American co-production bid by American International Pictures with Germany to make a popular European art movie, […]

Oct, 30 · in Reviews

Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round *** (1966, James Coburn, Camilla Sparv, Aldo Ray, Nina Wayne, Robert Webber, Rose Marie) – Classic Movie Review 9032

Writer-director Bernard Girard’s 1966 crime drama Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round is a bright and brash tongue-in-cheek-thriller adventure starring James Coburn as Swinging Sixties ladies’ man crook Eli Kotch, a paroled conman masterminding a gang’s […]

Oct, 30 · in Reviews

The Internecine Project *** (1974, James Coburn, Lee Grant, Harry Andrews, Ian Hendry, Michael Jayston, Christiane Krüger, Keenan Wynn) – Classic Movie Review 9031

Director Ken Hughes’s 1974 The Internecine Project is a clever but heartless British-made thriller, with James Coburn enjoying himself as Professor Robert Elliot, an ambitious business tycoon who tries to erase evidence of his criminal […]

Oct, 30

Lord Love a Duck *** (1966, Roddy McDowall, Tuesday Weld, Lola Albright, Martin West, Ruth Gordon, Harvey Korman) – Classic Movie Review 9030

Director George Axelrod’s 1966 romantic comedy drama Lord Love a Duck stars Roddy McDowall, then 38 in real life, who plays the ever-youthful, brilliant high school senior Alan Musgrave making innocent co-student Barbara Ann Greene […]

Oct, 30

The Alphabet Murders [The ABC Murders] * (1965, Tony Randall, Robert Morley, Anita Ekberg) – Classic Movie Review 9029

Agatha Christie’s A1 vintage thriller novel The ABC Murders about a murderer apparently bumping people off alphabetically is infuriatingly played for broad and easy laughs by a miscast Tony Randall as Eurotec Hercule Poirot, and […]

Oct, 29

84 Charing Cross Road **** (1987, Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench) – Classic Movie Review 9028

Director David Jones’s 1987 drama 84 Charing Cross Road features subtle and affecting performances from Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins, bringing to life this glowing and delightful film version of Helene Hanff’s memoirs (and its […]

Oct, 29

Tom & Viv *** (1994, Willem Dafoe, Miranda Richardson, Rosemary Harris, Tim Dutton, Nickolas Grace) – Classic Movie Review 9027

Director Brian Gilbert’s 1994 British biographical romantic drama Tom & Viv tells the extraordinary story of the doomed marriage of American poet Tom Eliot [T S Eliot] (Willem Dafoe) and the English aristocrat Vivienne Haigh-Wood […]

Oct, 29

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