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Return of the Seven ** (1966, Yul Brynner, Robert Fuller, Julián Mateos, Warren Oates, Claude Akins, Fernando Rey, Emilio Fernández) – Classic Movie Review 6576

Director Burt Kennedy’s 1966 movie brings Yul Brynner’s welcome return as hired gun Chris Adams in this acceptable but less magnificent sequel to perhaps everybody’s favourite Western, The Magnificent Seven (1960). The trouble is that […]

Jan, 18

Terror in a Texas Town **** (1958, Sterling Hayden, Sebastian Cabot, Carol Kelly) – Classic Movie Review 5983

Director Joseph H Lewis’s 1958 cult Western is tense, moody and unusual, with an effective Gothic climax in which Sterling Hayden’s star character George Hansen faces the six-gun-toting bad guy with a whaling harpoon. The portly […]

Aug, 28

So Dark the Night ***½ (1946, Steven Geray, Ann Codee, Micheline Cheirel, Eugene Borden, Egon Brecher, Helen Freeman) – Classic Movie Review 5631

Director Joseph H Lewis’s stylish 1946 low-budget noir thriller So Dark the Night stars dashing Steven Geray as Henri Cassin, the Parisian copper who comes a cropper when he takes a takes a rare holiday […]

Jun, 18

Fighting Mad *** (1976, Peter Fonda, Lynn Lowry, John Doucette, Philip Carey, Scott Glenn) – Classic Movie Review 5363

Writer-director Jonathan Demme’s third movie (after 1974’s Caged Heat and 1975’s Crazy Mama) is this exciting and effective 1976 Roger Corman-produced cheapie ($600,000) exploitation crime action thriller. Happily, Demme’s expertly handled vengeance movie now enjoys status […]

Apr, 29

Dragonwyck **** (1946, Gene Tierney, Vincent Price, Glenn Langan, Walter Huston, Anne Revere, Spring Byington, Harry Morgan, Jessica Tandy) – Classic Movie Review 4466

‘Dangerously, she dared to love!’ Gene Tierney stars as beautiful Connecticut farm girl Miranda Wells, in the 1946 period mystery thriller film Dragonwyck.  ‘Dangerously, she dared to love!’ Gene Tierney stars as beautiful Connecticut farm girl […]

Oct, 08

Tess **** (1979, Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth, Leigh Lawson) – Classic Movie Review 4407

Co-writer/ director Roman Polanski delivers a rich, faithful, spirited and satisfying 1979 film version of the Thomas Hardy novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles. Tess was nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Picture and went […]

Sep, 24

Dulcima *** (1971, Carol White, John Mills, Stuart Wilson, Bernard Lee, Dudley Foster) – Classic Movie Review 4277

Writer-director Frank Nesbitt’s 1971 British drama stars Carol White (Poor Cow) as pretty young Dulcima Gaskain, who helps out mean, hard-drinking old farmer Mr Parker (John Mills) by cleaning his farm house. Soon she moves in […]

Sep, 01

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