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Posts Tagged "assassination"
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The Naked Runner ** (1967, Frank Sinatra, Peter Vaughan, Derren Nesbitt) – Classic Movie Review 7074
Director Sidney J Furie’s run-of-the-mill British 1967 Cold War spy thriller The Naked Runner, based on the novel by Francis Clifford, is often preposterous but thankfully livened up considerably with flashy Sixties visuals so at […]
Nine Hours to Rama ** (1963, Horst Buchholz, José Ferrer, Diane Baker, Robert Morley, Harry Andrews, Valerie Gearon) – Classic Movie Review 6401
Director Mark Robson’s 1962 drama is based on the novel by Stanley Wolpert and handsomely made in India. It offers a fictionalised account of Hindu militant activist Nathuram Godse (Horst Buchholz)’s plan to kill Mahatma […]
Hitler’s Madman [Hitler’s Hangman] *** (1943, Patricia Morison, John Carradine, Alan Curtis) – Classic Movie Review 6381
Director Douglas Sirk’s 1943 wartime drama was suggested as a World War Two moral-boosting movie by Eleanor Roosevelt, the US First Lady (1933-45), and is based on a tragic real story, though slightly fictionalized. It […]
Harum Scarum * (1965, Elvis Presley, Mary Ann Mobley, Fran Jeffries, Michael Ansara) – Classic Movie Review 6233
Director Gene Nelson’s 1965 comedy musical is a ridiculous Elvis Presley vehicle, in which he plays Johnny Tyrone, an action movie star kidnapped by Arabs on the way to his new film’s Middle East premiere […]
Wild Target [Cible émouvante] **** (1993, Jean Rochefort, Guillaume Depardieu, Marie Trintignant) – Classic Movie Review 6069
Jean Rochefort has a whale of a time as a 55-year-old expert hitman called Victor Meynard, who encounters an inept young crook named Antoine (Guillaume Depardieu) on a kill and decides to train him as […]
The Interpreter ***½ (2005, Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, Earl Cameron, Yves Attal, Hugo Speer, Sydney Pollack) – Classic Movie Review 5034
Director Sydney Pollack conjures up a spirited, good old-fashioned Hitchcock-style mystery suspense thriller, with its serious elements slightly struggling against a twisty plot that is a bit predictable and cheesy. But it is all very […]
Jackie *** (2016, Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, John Hurt, Richard E Grant) – Movie Review
Natalie Portman was nominated for a Golden Globe and Bafta award as Best Actress playing – carefully and well – First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, who is interviewed by a Journalist (Billy Crudup) soon after the assassination […]