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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen **** (1988, John Neville, Sarah Polley, Eric Idle, Jonathan Pryce, Oliver Reed, Uma Thurman, Robin Williams) – Classic Movie Review 2471

Co-writer/director Terry Gilliam’s dazzling and spectacular 1988 fantasy comedy adventure epic stars ideally cast theatre actor John Neville. He is on commanding form as Baron Munchausen, the 18th-century Prussian aristocrat who travels around the universe, enjoys wartime exploits […]

May, 11

The Return of the Musketeers *** (1989, Michael York, Oliver Reed, Frank Finlay) – Classic Movie Review 2321

Director Richard Lester revisits his triumphant successes of 1973 and 1974, The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers, for this belated 1989 sequel that rounds up the original 70s Musketeers (Michael York as D’Artagnan, Oliver […]

Mar, 28

The Four Musketeers: Milady’s Revenge **** (1974, Michael York, Oliver Reed, Frank Finlay, Richard Chamberlain, Raquel Welch, Faye Dunaway, Charlton Heston, Christopher Lee) – Classic Movie Review 2305

The dashing Michael York returns as the young Musketeer D’Artagnan in the highly entertaining sequel to The Three Musketeers, the concluding 1974 half of Richard Lester’s tongue-in-cheek Alexandre Dumas adaptation, with the whole company of actors […]

Mar, 23

The Three Musketeers: The Queen’s Diamonds **** (1973, Michael York, Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain, Faye Dunaway, Christopher Lee, Frank Finlay, Charlton Heston) – Classic Movie Review 2304

Michael York is at his swashbuckling best in The Three Musketeers: The Queen’s Diamonds, as young, would-be Musketeer D’Artagnan, in director Richard Lester’s breathlessly exuberant, delightfully spoofy 1973 account of the Alexandre Dumas adventure classic. […]

Mar, 23

The Damned [These Are the Damned] ***½ (1963, Macdonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field, Viveca Lindfors, Oliver Reed, Alexander Knox, Walter Gotell) – Classic Movie Review 2231

Director Joseph Losey’s neglected 1963 Hammer horror movie The Damned is a weird, unsettling, imaginative and strangely compelling experience. Losey mixes movie genres from biker melodrama via teen romance to sci-fi with seemingly reckless abandon […]

Mar, 02

The Angry Silence **** (1960, Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli, Michael Craig, Bernard Lee, Alfred Burke) – Classic Movie Review 2111

Director Guy Green’s 1960 drama The Angry Silence is a refreshingly bracing, grown-up and engrossing thought piece that finds the 1960 British cinema in a surprisingly serious frame of mind in a story that tackles […]

Jan, 24

The Rebel [Call Me Genius] *** (1960, Tony Hancock, George Sanders, Paul Massie, Dennis Price) – Classic Movie Review 2107

Director Robert Day’s 1960 comedy for the Associated British Picture Corporation is certainly Tony Hancock’s finest hour in the movies, the better of his two star vehicles made at the height of his extraordinary fame, before […]

Jan, 24

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