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Twelve Plus One [12 + 1] [The Thirteen Chairs] ** (1969, Sharon Tate, Vittorio Gassman, Orson Welles, Terry-Thomas, Lionel Jeffries, Tim Brooke-Taylor, William Rushton, Mylène Demongeot) – Classic Movie Review 8847

Co-writer/ director Nicholas Gessner’s 1969 Italian comedy Twelve Plus One [12 + 1] [The Thirteen Chairs] is an interesting but oddly unpersuasive piece, with a hesitant tone, but it is notable for the last screen […]

Aug, 20

Hester Street **** (1975, Carol Kane, Steven Keats, Mel Howard) – Classic Movie Review 5803

Writer-director Joan Micklin Silver’s appealing and atmospheric 1975 little gem is based on the 1896 novella Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto by Abraham Cahan. Carol Kane stars as the Russian Jewish immigrant Gitl who […]

Jul, 23

Kiss of Death ** (1995, David Caruso, Nicolas Cage, Samuel L. Jackson, Helen Hunt, Stanley Tucci) – Classic Movie Review 2067

David Caruso stars as ex-con Jimmy Kilmartin who battles Nicolas Cage’s psychotic mobster Little Junior Brown in a basic, nastily violent crime thriller flick that’s no more than a cheesy B-movie. It’s flashy and atmospheric, but […]

Jan, 10

The Man in the Iron Mask ***** (1939, Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, Warren William) – Classic Movie Review 1034

Director James Whale’s 1939 black and white adventure classic The Man in the Iron Mask is an exuberantly spirited display of swashbuckling, which helps light up this thoroughly enjoyable, lustily entertaining Three Musketeers tale. It […]

Apr, 01

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