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Operation Amsterdam ** (1959, Peter Finch, Eva Bartok, Tony Britton, Alexander Knox) – Classic Movie Review 9145

Co-writer/ director Michael McCarthy’s 1958 Operation Amsterdam is a decent though low-tension real-life World War Two action drama about British-Netherlands trio Jan Smit (Peter Finch), Walter Keyser (Alexander Knox) and Major Dillon (Tony Britton) linking […]

Dec, 11

Green Ice ** (1981, Ryan O’Neal, Anne Archer, Omar Sharif) – Classic Movie Review 6967

Director Ernest Day’s tired 1981 British action thriller stars Ryan O’Neal as Joseph Wiley, an out-of-luck engineer adventurer who meets a rich mysterious woman, the femme fatale Holbrook (Anne Archer), in Mexico, and they head for Colombia, in […]

Apr, 27

To Catch a Thief ***** (1954, Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis, John Williams) – Classic Movie Review 443

Alfred Hitchcock’s purringly smooth, thoroughly enjoyable 1954 escapist romantic comedy-mystery has the inestimable benefit of starring the director’s two favourites, Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. As a thriller, it’s at the opposite end of the […]

Nov, 24

The Pink Panther ***** (1963, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner, Capucine, Claudia Cardinale) – Classic Movie Review 394

The Pink Panther is actually a diamond – and so is Peter Sellers’ 1963 comedy gem. Peter Sellers’s immortal, beloved Inspector Jacques Clouseau character made his delightful début in 1963 here in The Pink Panther […]

Nov, 11

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