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Cry Terror! *** (1958, James Mason, Rod Steiger, Inger Stevens, Neville Brand, Angie Dickinson) – Classic Movie Review 10,600
A lively cast are up to their necks in the plot twists of writer-director Andrew Stone’s unnerving 1958 black and white suspense thriller Cry Terror!. Rod Steiger stars as terrorist Paul Hoplin, who plants a […]
The Seven-Ups **** (1973, Roy Scheider, Tony Lo Bianco, Victor Arnold, Jerry Leon, Ken Kercheval) – Classic Movie Review 9,988
The 1973 The Seven-Ups is an edge-of-seat cop thriller, with NYPD Detective Buddy Manucci (Roy Scheider) getting his mobster buddy Vito Lucia (Tony Lo Bianco) to help him catch the meanest bad guys. Producer-director Philip […]
Juggernaut **** (1974, Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, David Hemmings, Anthony Hopkins Shirley Knight, Ian Holm, Roy Kinnear, Freddie Jones, Clifton James) – Classic Movie Review 9929
Director Richard Lester’s ultra-tense, impressively efficient, and thoroughly enjoyable 1974 Seventies action adventure Juggernaut stars Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, David Hemmings, Anthony Hopkins Shirley Knight, Ian Holm, Roy Kinnear, Freddie Jones, and Clifton James. Sharif […]
Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man [La tragedia di un uomo ridicolo] **** (1981, Ugo Tognazzi, Anouk Aimée, Laura Morante) – Classic Movie Review 9406
There is a fine mix of the personal and the political in writer-director Bernardo Bertolucci’s distinguished, carefully studied inquiry into the use of terror by and against the state, and sharply relevant comment on the […]
North Sea Hijack [ffolkes] *** (1980, Roger Moore, James Mason, Anthony Perkins, Michael Parks, David Hedison, Jack Watson, George Baker, Faith Brook, David Wood) – Classic Movie Review 8787
Director Andrew V McLaglen’s 1980 North Sea Hijack [ffolkes] stars Roger Moore, who leads the comic-book capers as Ffolkes, an oddball freelance frogman-commando with ice-cool nerve and style (he loves cats, ignores women and does […]
Ruthless People **** (1986, Bette Midler, Danny DeVito, Judge Reinhold) – Classic Movie Review 8232
Directors Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker’s 1986 Ruthless People is a hugely entertaining black comedy starring Danny DeVito as Sam Stone, a horrible hubby scheming to bump off his strident wife Barbara (Bette […]
Ransom! **** (1956, Glenn Ford, Donna Reed, Leslie Nielsen, Juano Hernandez, Robert Keith) – Classic Movie Review 8225
The tense 1956 film noir crime thriller Ransom! is an impressive showcase for Glenn Ford, who dominates it with his convincing performance as a nervy but determined dad whose son is kidnapped for ransom. Despite […]