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The Revolutionary *** (1970, Jon Voight, Seymour Cassel, Robert Duvall, Jennifer Salt) – Classic Movie Review 7934

Jon Voight gives a strong and convincing performance as the troubled college revolutionary – just called A – in director Paul Williams’s thoughtful, well-acted, understated and intelligent 1970 film The Revolutionary. Based on his own […]

Dec, 22 · in Reviews

Revolt of the Barbarians [La rivolta dei barbari] * (1964, Roland Carey, Maria Grazia Spina, Mario Feliciani) – Classic Movie Review 7933

Director Guido Malatesta’s 1964 period action adventure drama Revolt of the Barbarians [La Rivolta dei Barbari] is a very moderate Italian sword and sandal epic, in which a Roman consul goes to Gaul to investigate […]

Dec, 22 · in Reviews

Every Sunday *** (1936, Judy Garland, Deanna Durbin, Jack Lindquist) – Classic Movie Review 7932

Director Felix E Feist’s 1936 movie history-making MGM short film Every Sunday features the first notable screen appearances of both upcoming teenage stars Judy Garland (aged 14) and Deanna Durbin (aged 15), who makes her […]

Dec, 22

One Hundred Men and a Girl **** (1937, Deanna Durbin, Adolphe Menjou, Alice Brady, Leopold Stokowski, Eugene Pallette, Mischa Auer, Billy Gilbert) – Classic Movie Review 7931

In director Henry Koster’s 1937 black and white musical One Hundred Men and a Girl, the girl is the 16-year-old Deanna Durbin, playing Patricia Cardwell, the daughter of a struggling musician John Cardwell (Adolphe Menjou), […]

Dec, 22

100 Rifles *** (1969, Jim Brown, Raquel Welch, Burt Reynolds) – Classic Movie Review 7930

Director Tom Gries’s 1969 spaghetti Western 100 Rifles [One Hundred Rifles] stars Burt Reynolds as Native Indian revolutionary Yaqui Joe, an outlaw being pursued by an American lawman Lyedecker (Jim Brown). But then both of […]

Dec, 21

Fuzz *** (1972, Burt Reynolds, Raquel Welch, Jack Weston, Tom Skerritt, Yul Brynner) – Classic Movie Review 7929

Director Richard A Colla’s rumbustious 1972 crime action comedy Fuzz is based on a novel by Evan Hunter (writing as Ed McBain) and stars Burt Reynolds, Jack Weston, Tom Skerritt, Yul Brynner and Raquel Welch. As Boston […]

Dec, 20

Run for the Sun *** (1956, Richard Widmark, Trevor Howard, Jane Greer, Peter van Eyck, Juan García) – Classic Movie Review 3521

Co-writer/director Roy Boulting’s 1956 adventure thriller Run for the Sun is the third version of Richard Connell’s prize-winning short story The Most Dangerous Game. Though it is one of the most anthologised stories of all time […]

Dec, 20

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