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The Anderson Tapes **** (1971, Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam, Christopher Walken, Alan King, Ralph Meeker, Val Avery) – Classic Movie Review 571

Sean Connery, with hair!, is on riveting form as ex-convict Duke Anderson, who is under surveillance in New York City after serving 10 years for safe-breaking. He visits his old girlfriend Ingrid (Dyan Cannon) and conceives […]

Dec, 23

On the Waterfront ***** (1954, Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J Cobb, Karl Malden) – Classic Movie Review 351

‘You don’t understand. I could’ve had class. I could’ve been a contender. I could’ve been somebody instead of a bum, which I am.’ – Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando). In a truly great performance, the 30-year-old Marlon […]

Nov, 02

Cape Fear **** (1991, Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Juliette Lewis, Illeana Douglas, Joe Don Baker) – Classic Movie Review 177

Martin Scorsese boldly remakes J Lee Thompson’s much-admired 1962 thriller masterwork Cape Fear, based on John D MacDonald’s novel The Executioners. Scorsese has the right actor in mind in his regular star Robert De Niro, […]

Aug, 19

Cape Fear ***** (1962, Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck, Polly Bergen, Martin Balsam, Telly Savalas, Jack Kruschen) – Classic Movie Review 176

The 1962 crime thriller film Cape Fear stars Robert Mitchum, who hypnotically plays sadistic Max Cady, an ex-con sex-offender out to get the man he blames for his conviction, upright lawyer Sam Bowden (Gregory Peck). […]

Aug, 19

Twelve Angry Men ***** (1957, Henry Fonda, Lee J Cobb, Martin Balsam) – Classic Movie Review 10

In Sidney Lumet’s electrifying 1957 film classic courtroom drama, Henry Fonda gives a true, trusty, stalwart performance as Juror Number 8 in a murder trial. He’s a symbolically white-suited architect, who starts as the lone […]

Jul, 01

Psycho ***** (1960, Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Patricia Hitchcock, Martin Balsam, John McIntire, Lurene Tuttle) – Classic Movie Review 8

‘Do you have any vacancies?’ ‘Oh, we have 12 vacancies. 12 cabins, 12 vacancies.’ Alfred Hitchcock’s once dreaded and despised nail-biting 1960 horror classic Psycho had people boycotting it in fear at the cinema and […]

Jun, 29

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