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Slipstream *** (1989, Mark Hamill, Bob Peck, Bill Paxton, Kitty Aldridge, Eleanor David, Robbie Coltrane) – Classic Movie Review 9008

Director Steven M Lisberger’s British shot 1989 science-fiction adventure Slipstream stars Mark Hamill as bearded bounty hunter Will Tasker, who chases murderous android fugitive Byron (Bob Peck), in Star Wars producer Gary Kurtz’s thoughtful sci-fi […]

Oct, 22 · in Reviews

Hornets’ Nest [Il Vespaio] ** (1970, Rock Hudson, Sylva Koscina, Sergio Fantoni) – Classic Movie Review 9007

Director Phil Karlson’s 1970 Hornets’ Nest [Il Vespaio] stars Rock Hudson as sole surviving American paratrooper captain Turner, who leads the bunch of Italian orphans who have saved him in blowing up a crucial Nazi […]

Oct, 22 · in Uncategorized

Beneath the 12-Mile Reef *** (1953, Robert Wagner, Terry Moore, Gilbert Roland) – Classic Movie Review 9006

Director Robert D Webb’s 1953 adventure Beneath the 12-Mile Reef stars the young and innocent-looking Robert Wagner and Terry Moore as a latter-day Romeo and Juliet, brightening up an early CinemaScope tale of love, hate […]

Oct, 22

Hope and Glory ***** (1987, Sarah Miles, Susan Wooldridge, Ian Bannen, David Hayman, Sebastian Rice-Edwards, Derrick O’Connor, Jean-Marc Barr) – Classic Movie Review 9005

The 1987 British nostalgic wartime comedy drama Hope and Glory is a wonderful, warmest-hearted trip down memory lane as John Boorman writes, produces and directs this semi-autobiographical account of World War Two, as seen through […]

Oct, 22

Alfred the Great ** (1969, David Hemmings, Michael York, Prunella Ransome, Colin Blakely, Julian Glover, Ian McKellen, Alan Dobie, Peter Vaughan) – Classic Movie Review 9,004

David Hemmings stars as Alfred, who defeats the invading Danes, led by King Guthrum (Michael York), in the wobbly 1969 British historical epic film Alfred the Great. The ninth-century tale of Alfred the Great (849 […]

Oct, 21

Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush *** (1968, Barry Evans, Judy Geeson, Moyra Fraser, Denholm Elliott, Michael Bates, Angela Scoular, Sheila White, Adrienne Posta, Diane Keen) – Classic Movie Review 9003

Director Clive Donner’s 1968 British Swinging Sixties British comedy drama Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush stars Barry Evans as schoolboy Jamie McGregor, a virgin who seems to prefer his Walter Mitty fantasies to […]

Oct, 21

High-Ballin’ ** (1978, Peter Fonda, Jerry Reed, Helen Shaver, Chris Wiggins) – Classic Movie Review 9002

Director Peter Carter’s uninspired, over-familiar-seeming 1978 action adventure High-Ballin’ stars Peter Fonda, Jerry Reed (from Smokey and the Bandit) and Helen Shaver as truckers fighting off the bad guys who want to put them out […]

Oct, 21

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