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Julia ***** (1977, Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, Maximilian Schell, Hal Holbrook, Rosemary Murphy, Meryl Streep) – Classic Movie Review 4051

Those three fine actors Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave and Jason Robards eagerly grab their chances to shine in director Fred Zinnemann’s handsome 1977 film of author/ playwright Lillian Hellman’s story Pentimento, her memoir of her […]

Jul, 19

The Boys from Brazil *** (1978, Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason, Lilli Palmer, Uta Hagen, Steve Guttenberg, Denholm Elliott, Rosemary Harris) – Classic Movie Review 4,040

Laurence Olivier as an elderly Jewish Nazi hunter is the best thing about Franklin J Schaffner’s 1978 big-budget British movie version of Ira Levin’s ingenious thriller novel The Boys from Brazil. Director Franklin J  Schaffner’s […]

Jul, 18

Saw V ** (2008, Scott Patterson, Costas Mandylor, Tobin Bell, Betsy Russell, Mark Rolston, Joris Jarsky) – Classic Movie Review 4015

Director David Hackl’s twisted, morbid 2008 fourth sequel of the revoltingly sick horror thriller series is masterminded by the scenic designer of the previous three movies. And you could say he does make a slick, professional […]

Jul, 14

Despair [Eine Reise ins Licht] *** (1978, Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol, Klaus Löwitsch, Volker Spengler) – Classic Movie Review 3,950

Dirk Bogarde stars in German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1978 English-language film Despair [Eine Reise ins Licht] about Hermann Hermann, a 1930s Russian immigrant chocolate magnate businessman in Germany who begins to fall apart and […]

Jun, 29

A Foreign Affair **** (1948, Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund) – Classic Movie Review 3926

Director Billy Wilder’s pointed 1948 cynical comedy stars Jean Arthur, who oozes charisma as Phoebe Frost, an American politician on a Congressional committee delegation to US forces in occupied Berlin to investigate GIs’ morals there. Frost’s frostiness […]

Jun, 26

The Conspirators ***½ (1944, Hedy Lamarr, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Victor Francen, Joseph Calleia) – Classic Movie Review 3884

Warner Bros reassembles three of Casablanca’s stars in the 1944 film The Conspirators. Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre play World War Two resistance workers plotting in Lisbon with a Dutch freedom fighter (Paul Henreid). In […]

Jun, 19

Judgment at Nuremberg ***** (1961, Spencer Tracy, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Maximilian Schell, Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, William Shatner) – Classic Movie Review 3.503

Spencer Tracy is superb as the American chief judge, Dan Haywood, who sits in judgment over a 1948 war crimes trial in Nuremberg, Germany, in producer-director Stanley Kramer’s powerful and moving double Oscar-winning 1961 drama […]

Mar, 26

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