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Telefon ** (1977, Charles Bronson, Lee Remick, Donald Pleasence, Tyne Daly, Alan Badel, Patrick Magee, Sheree North) – Classic Movie Review 6783

Director Don Siegel’s far-fetched and feeble 1977 spy thriller, based on Walter Wager’s 1975 novel, stars Charles Bronson as a KGB agent called Major Grigori Borzov, who is sent to stop programmed Russian spies from blowing […]

Mar, 09

Knock on Any Door *** (1949, Humphrey Bogart, John Derek, George Macready, Allene Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 6765

Nicholas Ray’s intelligent 1949 courtroom melodrama Knock on Any Door stars Humphrey Bogart as a lawyer defending a Chicago slum kid (John Derek) from a cop killer murder rap by trying to appeal to the […]

Mar, 04

Suspect **** (1987, Cher, Dennis Quaid, Liam Neeson, John Mahoney, Joe Mantegna, Philip Bosco) – Classic Movie Review 6501

Director Peter Yates follows up his Eyewitness (1981) in 1987 with another top-notch thriller in similar vein. It boasts charismatic performances by Cher as public defender Kathleen Riley, Liam Neeson as her client Carl Anderson, a […]

Dec, 31

Farewell My Concubine [Ba wang bie ji] ***** (1993, Leslie Cheung, Zhang Fengyi, Gong Li) – Classic Movie Review 6386

Director Chen Kaige’s magnificent 1993 epic romantic music drama is the co-winner of the 1993 Palme d’Or and winner of the International Critics’ FIPRESCI Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. It follows the changing fortunes and […]

Dec, 10

White Fang *** (1936, Michael Whalen, Jean Muir, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charles Winninger, Slim Summerville, Thomas Beck) – Classic Movie Review 6368

Director David Butler’s semi-classic 1936 adventure is a successful, fast-moving and handsomely filmed version of the Jack London story, with Jean Muir and Thomas Beck as siblings Sylvia Burgess and Hal who are bequeathed a mine. […]

Dec, 07

Bright Leaf **** (1950, Gary Cooper, Lauren Bacall, Patricia Neal, Donald Crisp, Jack Carson, Gladys George) – Classic Movie Review 6309

Cast against type, Gary Cooper stars effectively as ruthlessly ambitious outsider Brant Royle in director Michael Curtiz’s sparky, surprisingly little-known 1950 film of Victorian Texas tobacco-growing folk who spend most of their time wrecking marriages, […]

Nov, 25

Le Amiche [The Girl Friends] **** (1955, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Valentina Cortese, Yvonne Furneaux, Gabriele Ferzetti) – Classic Movie Review 6281

This early Michelangelo Antonioni 1955 Italian film Le Amiche [The Girl Friends] is a highly successful, clever adaptation of a Cesare Pavese story (Tra Donne Sole) about the relationships between a young cosmopolitan fashion designer […]

Nov, 21

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