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Where’s Poppa? **** (1970, George Segal, Ruth Gordon, Ron Leibman) – Classic Movie Review 7979

Director Carl Reiner’s wicked 1970 comedy Where’s Poppa? is a hilarious black farce, with marvellous comedy performances from the treasurable George Segal and Ruth Gordon as the Jewish attorney Gordon Hocheiser and his grotesque, crazy, […]

Jan, 04

The Comancheros ** (1961, John Wayne, Stuart Whitman, Nehemiah Persoff, Lee Marvin, Ina Balin, Bruce Cabot, Michael Ansara) – Classic Movie Review 6436

John Wayne stars as a hard-bitten Texas Ranger Captain Jake Cutter who joins up with his roguish gambler prisoner Paul Regret (Stuart Whitman) to clean up a gang of Comanchero renegade arms merchants and thieves, […]

Dec, 20

Springfield Rifle ** (1952, Gary Cooper, Phyllis Thaxter, David Brian, Lon Chaney Jr, Paul Kelly, Philip Carey, Guinn Williams, Fess Parker, Martin Milner) – Classic Movie Review 6,313

André de Toth’s strongly cast 1952 Warner Bros Western film Springfield Rifle stars Gary Cooper as a Union intelligence officer who goes undercover to battle a Confederate rustler spy ring.  ‘The Gun That Made One […]

Nov, 25

The MacKintosh Man *** (1973, Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda, James Mason, Ian Bannen, Nigel Patrick, Michael Hordern, Peter Vaughan, Harry Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 6,037

Paul Newman stars as an undercover government agent hired to trap a spying British Member of Parliament (James Mason), in director John Huston’s quick-paced 1973 Cold War spy thriller film The MacKintosh Man. Paul Newman […]

Sep, 23

The Ghoul ** (2016, Tom Meeten, Alice Lowe, Rufus Jones, Niamh Cusack, Geoffrey McGivern, Waen Shepherd, Paul Kaye) – Movie Review

Tom Meeten stars as an ex-police detective who goes undercover as the patient of a psychotherapist (Niamh Cusack) he believes is linked to a baffling double murder. As he investigates, he pretends to be mentally […]

Aug, 12

Taxi * (2004, Queen Latifah, Jimmy Fallon, Gisele Bündchen, Henry Simmons, Jennifer Esposito) – Classic Movie Review 4971

Queen Latifah teams up with US comedian Jimmy Fallon as a New York City taxi driver and the cop who helps her tackle a four-woman gang of gorgeous Brazilian bank robbers (Gisele Bündchen, Ana Cristina […]

Jan, 31

Chains of Gold * (1991, John Travolta, Joey Lawrence, Marilu Henner, Bernie Casey, Hector Elizondo, Conchata Ferrell, Benjamin Bratt) – Classic Movie Review 4948

Director Rod Holcomb’s 1991 thriller is a missing John Travolta movie – and deservedly so – in which he plays Scott Barnes, a Miami social worker who infiltrates a dangerous drug-running street gang, run by Carlos […]

Jan, 27

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