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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

In this unbelievably old-fashioned 19th-century-set 1996 adventure movie, you expect to find both Tarzan and Allan Quatermain, since it seems to owe much to Edgar Rice Burroughs and Rider Haggard as to any true story […]

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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