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Comrade X *** (1940, Clark Gable, Hedy Lamarr, Oscar Homolka, Felix Bressart, Eve Arden, Sig Ruman) – Classic Movie Review 7411

Hedy Lamarr stars as a beautiful Communist Moscow train driver, who is romanced by American reporter Clark Gable in Soviet Moscow, in MGM’s 1940 film Comrade X. This is much pleasure, as well as quite […]

Aug, 07

The Killing Fields **** (1984, Sam Waterston, Haing S Ngor, John Malkovich, Julian Sands, Craig T Nelson, Bill Paterson) – Classic Movie Review 6557

Director Roland Joffé’s 1984 British anti-war film about the friendship of American New York Times journalist Sydney Schanberg (Sam Waterston) and his local journalist guide Dith Pran (Haing S Ngor) is both angry and intelligent. […]

Jan, 14

Volunteers ** (1985, Tom Hanks, John Candy, Rita Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 6173

Tom Hanks and John Candy, the talented comedians from Splash! (1984), sign up together again for director Nicholas Meyer’s cynical but affectionate 1985 spoof comedy set in early Sixties Thailand. There a rich, selfish socialite called Lawrence […]

Nov, 01

Land and Freedom **** (1995, Ian Hart, Rosana Pastor, Icíar Bollaín) – Classic Movie Review 6154

Director Ken Loach’s British 1995 Spanish Civil War wartime drama stars Ian Hart as David Carr, an unemployed Liverpool communist-supporter who leaves to join the anti-Fascist fight in Spain in the spring of 1936. He […]

Oct, 30

The Assassination of Trotsky ** (1972, Richard Burton, Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Valentina Cortese, Jean Desailly) – Classic Movie Review 5839

Something has gone wrong here with director Joseph Losey’s plodding, unmoving 1972 film about the last days of Leon Trotsky (a somewhat miscast Richard Burton) in a Mexican fortress in 1940. Alain Delon plays his […]

Aug, 02

Soldier of Fortune *** (1955, Clark Gable, Susan Hayward, Michael Rennie, Gene Barry) – Classic Movie Review 5493

Director Edward Dmytryk’s glossy and escapist 1955 adventure film Soldier of Fortune is a solidly carpentered, old-fashioned escapade of Americans involved in intrigue out East. Ernest K Gann adapts his own novel. Director Dmytryk makes atmospheric […]

May, 25

Neruda *** (2016, Gael García Bernal, Luis Gnecco, Mercedes Morán) – Movie Review

‘Jackie‘ (2016) and The Club (2015) director Pablo Larraín’s 2016 biographical drama is an unusual, surprising eye-opener of a film. It is most welcome as an intriguing, provocative and different film. It is full of provocative […]

Apr, 08

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