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Battle Beyond the Stars *** (1980, Richard Thomas, Robert Vaughn, John Saxon, George Peppard, Sam Jaffe) – Classic Movie Review 8592

Director Jimmy T Murakami’s 1980 movie Battle Beyond the Stars is a cheeky and entertaining slice of sci-fi from executive producer Roger Corman and New World Pictures, cheerfully mixing The Magnificent Seven with Star Wars. […]

Jun, 14 · in Uncategorized

Android **** (1982, Klaus Kinski, Don Keith Opper, Brie Howard) – Classic Movie Review 8591

Director Aaron Lipstadt’s 1982 Android is a sprightly, enjoyable low-budget Roger Corman-produced reworking of themes and ideas that also appear in Blade Runner and numerous other sci-fi films of the late Seventies and early Eighties, […]

Jun, 14 · in Uncategorized

The Don Is Dead ** (1973, Anthony Quinn, Frederic Forrest, Robert Forster, Al Lettieri, Angel Tompkins, Charles Cioffi) – Classic Movie Review 8590

‘In the Fall of 1971, Don Angelo DiMorra began an innocent affair with a beautiful woman. It started the bloodiest carnival of murder in the history of American crime.’ Frederic Forrest and Al Lettieri star […]

Jun, 14

The Andromeda Strain **** (1971, James Olson, Arthur Hill, David Wayne, Kate Reid, Paula Kelly) – Classic Movie Review 8589

Arthur Hill stars as concerned scientist Dr Stone, who sacrifices himself for humanity in director Robert Wise’s tense, suspenseful, intelligent and just plain excellent 1971 sci-fi adventure The Andromeda Strain, adapted by screen-writer Nelson Gidding from […]

Jun, 13

Mandingo *** (1975, James Mason, Susan George, Perry King, Richard Ward, Brenda Sykes, Ken Norton) – Classic Movie Review 8588

James Mason is surprisingly cast and equally surprisingly successful as Warren Maxwell, a rotten, racist Southern plantation owner, in director Richard Fleischer’s steamy and provocative 1840s-set Louisiana melodrama Mandingo from 1975. Maxwell arranges a marriage […]

Jun, 13

Marooned ** (1969, Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, David Janssen, James Franciscus, Gene Hackman, Lee Grant, Nancy Kovak, Mariette Hartley) – Classic Movie Review 8587

Director John Sturges’s well-crafted but slow and sombre 1969 Sci-Fi space adventure Marooned finds a fine cast headed by Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, David Janssen, James Franciscus, Gene Hackman, Lee Grant, Nancy Kovak and Mariette […]

Jun, 13

Count Three and Pray *** (1955, Van Heflin, Joanne Woodward, Philip Carey, Raymond Burr, Allison Hayes, Myron Healey) – Classic Movie Review 8586

Director George Sherman’s 1955 Count Three and Pray is a very decent little Technicolor CinemaScope Western with a punchy performance by the sometimes too-quiet actor Van Heflin as the homecoming Civil War veteran Luke Fargo, […]

Jun, 12

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