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Hannibal Brooks *** (1969, Oliver Reed, Michael J Pollard, John Alderton, Wolfgang Preiss, Karin Baal, Helmuth Lohner) -Classic Movie Review 7770

Producer-director Michael Winner’s fondly remembered 1968 British World War Two caper film Hannibal Brooks is a wartime adventure yarn about an elephant crossing the Alps, starring Oliver Reed in one of his more memorable turns […]

Nov, 10

Ten Seconds to Hell ** (1959, Jack Palance, Jeff Chandler, Martine Carol) – Classic Movie Review 7489

Director Robert Aldrich keeps the tension reasonably high in his 1959 thriller Ten Seconds to Hell, despite a contrived, none too credible plot device, the unattractive characters, poor German accents and the insipid romantic interludes. […]

Aug, 24

Alexander Nevsky [Aleksandr Nevskiy] **** (1938, Nikolay Cherkasov, Nikolai Okhlopkov, Andrei Abrikosov) – Classic Movie Review 7470

The great Russian director Sergei M Eisenstein is on top, brilliant form in this remarkable 1938 Soviet historical epic (set in 1242) that climaxes in Prince Alexander Nevsky (Nikolay Cherkasov), the saint and soldier of […]

Aug, 19

Mine Own Executioner **** (1947, Burgess Meredith, Kieron Moore, Dulcie Gray, Barbara White, Christine Norden) – Classic Movie Review 5854

‘There’s nothing worse than a man who makes you take off your self-respect and keep your clothes on.’ Anthony Kimmins’s 1947 British film noir thriller of Nigel Balchin’s distinguished novel Mine Own Executioner is deservedly […]

Aug, 04

A Town Like Alice [The Rape of Malaya] *** (1956, Virginia McKenna, Peter Finch, Marie Lohr, Maureen Swanson, Jean Anderson, Renée Houston, Nora Nicholson, Vincent Ball) – Classic Movie Review 5792

Director Jack Lee’s 1956 film is a solid, sincere but under-powered version of Nevil Shute’s bestseller about the Japanese invasion of Malaya and the suffering of a group of British women rounded up and sent to […]

Jul, 20

The Colditz Story **** (1954, John Mills, Eric Portman, Lionel Jeffries, Bryan Forbes, Ian Carmichael, Richard Wattis) – Classic Movie Review 5789

Co-writer/ director Guy Hamilton’s persuasive, meticulously crafted 1954 World War Two saga of British prisoner-of-war existence in the German Medieval castle of Colditz is based on the book by Pat Reid. It effectively mixes tense […]

Jul, 19

Escape to Victory [Victory] *** (1981, Michael Caine, Sylvester Stallone, Max von Sydow, Pelé, Bobby Moore) – Classic Movie Review 4115

Michael Caine and Sylvester Stallone star in a fairly awesome movie about using a soccer game to cover an escape from a German POW camp in WWII. Director John Huston’s eccentric 1981 prisoner-of-war adventure hokum […]

Aug, 01

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