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Writer-producer-director James Toback’s 1981 thriller Love & Money stars Ray Sharkey, Ornella Muti, Klaus Kinski and Armand Assante. That great eccentric Klaus Kinski stars as a pop-eyed tycoon, Frederic Stockheinz, who draws LA bank employee […]
Woody Allen’s 1971 political satire comedy film Bananas is rough but ready for raising lots of laughs. It stars Allen as a bumbling New Yorker who becomes involved in a Latin American revolution and Louise Lasser […]
The 1980 war movie The Dogs of War is a competent all-action film version of Frederick Forsyth’s bestseller, with a young Christopher Walken intriguing as a war-scarred mercenary in a fictional West African republic, Zangaro. […]
The 1961 film noir Man-Trap is based on John D MacDonald’s novel Soft Touch and stars Jeffrey Hunter as a Korean War veteran involved in his old buddy David Janssen’s scheme to steal $3.5 million from a Central American dictator. […]
Director Andrew V McLaglen’s intense, realistic and enjoyable 1978 all-star British blood-and-guts war adventure movie The Wild Geese stars Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris and Hardy Kruger as Colonel Allen Faulkener, Lieutenant Shawn Fynn […]
‘One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.’ – Colonel William Travis. Remember The Alamo? Well, not this version, anyway, for director John Lee Hancock ‘s misjudged, murky-looking and mostly boring 2004 […]
Robert Cummings stars in Anthony Mann’s 1949 film noir-shot adventure drama The Black Book, with a complex plot and a well-researched French Revolution background. Director Anthony Mann’s 1949 film noir-shot black and white adventure drama […]