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The Secret of My Success ** (1965, James Booth, Stella Stevens, Shirley Jones, Honor Blackman, Lionel Jeffries) – Classic Movie Review 8,711

The 1965 British movie The Secret of My Success stars James Booth as a naïve copper who runs into romantic tangles. Stella Stevens, Shirley Jones and Honor Blackman also star in an episodic black comedy […]

Jul, 15

The Adventurers * (1970, Bekim Fehmiu, Alan Badel, Candice Bergen, Ernest Borgnine, Olivia de Havilland, Rossano Brazzi, Charles Aznavour) – Classic Movie Review 6751

‘The Adventurers was a disaster and I should never have made it.’ In 1967, Lewis Gilbert was chosen to direct Lionel Bart’s musical of Oliver!, but he was contracted to another project had to pull out. ‘I had to […]

Feb, 28

The Undefeated ** (1969, John Wayne, Rock Hudson, Marian McCargo, Lee Meriwether, Ben Johnson, Jan-Michael Vincent, Antonio Aguilar, Bruce Cabot) – Classic Movie Review 6732

Even an enormous cast of renowned outdoor movie character players, a costly $7 million plus production and the big name star pairing of John Wayne and Rock Hudson cannot quite save director Andrew V McLaglen’s […]

Feb, 24

Tout Va Bien **** [All’s Well] (1972, Yves Montand, Jane Fonda, Vittorio Caprioli) – Classic Movie Review 6068

Jane Fonda (as Her, Suzanne) and Yves Montand (as Him, Jacques) play a reporter and an ad-director couple in Paris, who reappraise their revolutionary views during the course of a factory-workers’ strike. Writer-directors Jean-Luc Godard […]

Oct, 09

Viva Maria! **** (1965, Jeanne Moreau, Brigitte Bardot, George Hamilton) – Classic Movie Review 5833

The surprisingly but delightfully paired French icon megastars Jeanne Moreau and Brigitte Bardot star as the two Marias, a song ‘n’ dance duo who get involved in serious political affairs, and a joint love affair […]

Jul, 31

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes *** (1972, Roddy McDowall, Don Murray, Ricardo Montalban, Natalie Trundy, Severn Darden) – Classic Movie Review 5750

Director J Lee Thompson takes the helm in 1972 for the fourth of the five original Planet of the Apes films (a short TV series followed) in which the apes, who are being used as […]

Jul, 13

The Serpent and the Rainbow *** (1988, Bill Pullman, Cathy Tyson, Zakes Mokae, Paul Winfield) – Classic Movie Review 2872

Director Wes Craven tackles the darkly disturbing dreams of the undead in this creepy 1988 voodoo hokum carefully tailored for horror buffs. Bill Pullman stars as Dennis Alan, an anthropologist who goes to Haiti to investigate […]

Aug, 31

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