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The Naked Prey *** (1966, Cornel Wilde, Gert Van Den Berg, Patrick Mynhardt) – Classic Movie Review 7079

‘Stripped, weaponless, alone and only ten desperate seconds ahead of the killers!’ Producer-director Cornel Wilde’s 1966 movie The Naked Prey is a tough, demanding and excellent 19th-century jungle adventure thriller starring himself as the safari guide The […]

May, 21

White Hunter Black Heart *** (1990, Clint Eastwood, Jeff Fahey, Charlotte Cornwell) – Classic Movie Review 6743

In his first star character role, aged 60, Clint Eastwood achieves a bravura sustained impersonation of wayward  legendary movie director John Huston who in 1950 sets out, distracted and obsessive, on a quest to shoot […]

Feb, 27

Wind River **** (2017, Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olson, Gil Birmingham, Graham Greene) – Movie Review

Ironically, though it was a sweaty evening at the cinema with the aircon not working, this 2017 crime drama, mystery movie is ultra-chilly in every way. Shot in snowy landscapes, it is very cold, bleak, intense and […]

Sep, 09

King Solomon’s Mines **** (1937, Paul Robeson, Roland Young, John Loder, Anna Lee) – Classic Movie Review 5633

Paul Robeson’s superlative performance (he even gets to sing) as hunter guide Umbopa, a mysterious exiled African chief who helps the explorers in their quest, lights up director Robert Stevenson’s 1937 British movie of the […]

Jun, 19

The Bear *** (1988, Tchéky Karyo, Jack Wallace, André Lacombe) – Classic Movie Review 5334

Director Jean-Jacques Annaud’s 1988 adventure is the beautifully filmed, heartwarming tale of orphaned baby bear cub Douce (played by Youk the Bear), a happy little grizzly who scampers round the British Columbian mountains in the […]

Apr, 23

The Ghost and the Darkness *** (1996, Michael Douglas, Val Kilmer, Tom Wilkinson) – Classic Movie Review 3701

The 1996 historical adventure film The Ghost and the Darkness stars Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas, and is a fictional version of the two man-eating lions that terrorised workers at Tsavo, Kenya, during the building […]

May, 12

The Hunted ** (2003, Tommy Lee Jones, Benicio Del Toro, Connie Nielsen) – Classic Movie Review 3673

Tommy Lee Jones enjoys another one of his popular Fugitive-style dogged tracker roles as L.T. Bonham, the military hero who first trained a mad, bad and dangerous AWOL soldier Aaron Hallam (Benicio Del Toro) to be a […]

May, 08

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