Director James Parrott’s 1930 comedy short Hog Wild finds Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy at their finest and funniest in a continuous series of perfectly carried out gags, with the most intricate attention paid to […]
Director John Frankenheimer’s 1990 Cold War drama The Fourth War stars Roy Scheider and Jürgen Prochnow as cold warriors who fight it out in the snow, in this old-fashioned action thriller set where the Western […]
Director John Frankenheimer’s 1971 macho action adventure drama The Horsemen is propelled with a sterling performance by Omar Sharif as Uraz, the son of sheikh Tursen (Jack Palance), wounded and humiliated in a barbaric variant […]
Director John Frankenheimer’s 1985 The Holcroft Covenant is a risible political thriller based on Robert Ludlum’s potboiling yarn about the clash over the fate of a $4,000 million potentially dangerous bequest by a German General […]
Director John Frankenheimer’s 1982 American-Japanese macho action movie The Challenge stars Scott Glenn as the down-and-out American boxer Rick, paid to take an inherited sword from the States to Japan and finding himself caught in […]
Elmore Leonard’s excellent 1974 novel 52 Pick-Up is reworked as J Lee Thompson’s watchable and entertaining 1984 political thriller The Ambassador starring Robert Mitchum as the American ambassador to Israel trying to solve the crisis […]
Something is missing in director John Frankenheimer’s 1986 crime thriller film 52 Pick-Up – credibility, pace, wit and brevity for a start. The Cannon Group remake Elmore Leonard’s 1974 novel just 18 months after their […]
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