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John Wayne was none too well, aged 67 and showing it when he played the surprisingly elderly Irish-American police detective lieutenant Jim Brannigan, who visits tourist London to collect an American mobster Ben Larkin (John […]
Don Siegel’s gritty 1973 neo-noir crime thriller Charley Varrick is a total humdinger, with Walter Matthau as an ex-stunt pilot who accidentally lifts a Mafia fortune. Joe Don Baker is a great villain as the […]
Don Siegel’s 1971 police thriller film Dirty Harry is arguably Clint Eastwood’s most famous movie, and certainly one of his best films. Lalo Schifrin contributes one of his finest scores. ‘I know what you’re thinking. […]
Alfred Hitchcock’s 1969 spy thriller Topaz is one of his least interesting films, despite being based Leon Uris’s top bestselling novel. But it remains entirely watchable thanks some fine performances and a few typical Hitchcock […]
In 1978, the year of Eraserhead and The Deer Hunter, we were also laughing, thank goodness. Debut director John Landis’s outrageous teen comedy National Lampoon’s Animal House is extremely bold and hysterically funny. A landmark movie, […]
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