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Lucky Luciano ***** (1973, Gian Maria Volontè, Vincent Gardenia, Silverio Blasi, Edmond O’Brien, Rod Steiger, Charles Cioffi, Larry Gates) – Classic Movie Review 11,073

Gian Maria Volontè stars brilliantly as Sicilian-American Mafia boss gangster Charles ‘Lucky’ Luciano, in Francesco Rosi’s superb 1973 Technicolor biopic Lucky Luciano. The detailed screenplay covers the mobster’s life from 1946, when the Americans gave […]

Apr, 04

The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun *** (1970, Samantha Eggar, Oliver Reed, Stéphane Audran, John McEnery) – Classic Movie Review 10,929

The enjoyable 1970 French psychological thriller film The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun stars Samantha Eggar, Oliver Reed, Stéphane Audran and John McEnery. A body turns up in the trunk of […]

Feb, 17

Super Fly [Superfly] *** (1972, Ron O’Neal, Carl Lee, Sheila Frazier) – Classic Movie Review 9989

Director Gordon Parks Jr’s successful though controversial 1972 action crime thriller Super Fly [Superfly] is a hit from the wave of 1970s blaxploitation movies, with Ron O’Neal working hard as Youngblood Priest/ Super Fly, a […]

Jul, 02

The Seven-Ups **** (1973, Roy Scheider, Tony Lo Bianco, Victor Arnold, Jerry Leon, Ken Kercheval) – Classic Movie Review 9988

Producer-director Philip D’Antoni’s 1973 The Seven-Ups is an edge-of-seat exciting, realist-style New York police action thriller, with undercover cop NYPD Detective Buddy Manucci (Roy Scheider) getting his lifetime buddy, mobster Vito Lucia (Tony Lo Bianco), […]

Jul, 01

Cannonball [Carquake] *** (1976, David Carradine, Bill McKinney, Veronica Hamel) – Classic Movie Review 9320

Co-writer/ director Paul Bartel’s 1976 Cannonball [Carquake] is a follow-up in similar action vein to his 1975 hit Death Race 2000, this time a full-on Seventies-style slap-up comedy action adventure about the ruthless people, chiefly Coy […]

Jan, 29

The Driver **** (1978, Ryan O’Neal, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Adjani) – Classic Movie Review 7,048

Walter Hill’s beautifully crafted, dazzlingly stylised 1978 film noir crime action thriller The Driver stars Ryan O’Neal at his melancholic brooding best as the sharpest getaway man in the robbery business. Writer-director Walter Hill’s second […]

May, 13

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