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Dersu Uzala ***** (1975, Maksim Munzuk, Yuriy Solomin, Mikhail Bychkov) – Classic Movie Review 10,633

Director Akira Kurosawa’s 1975 USSR-Japanese co-production, the adventure biographical drama Dersu Uzala, won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film (Soviet Union) in 1976. Young imperial Russian officer, Captain Vladimir Arsenev (Yuriy Solomin), sent by […]

Dec, 06

Man in the Wilderness **** (1971, Richard Harris, John Huston, Henry Wilcoxon, John Bindon, Prunella Ransome, Henry Wilcoxon, Ben Carruthers, Percy Herbert, Dennis Waterman) – Classic Movie Review 9122

Director Richard C Sarafian’s 1971 adventure Man in the Wilderness is a gory but involving great outdoors tale propelled with a rousing turn from Richard Harris as Zachary Bass, a beaver hunter marooned in the […]

Dec, 03

The Trap *** (1966, Rita Tushingham, Oliver Reed, Rex Sevenoaks) – Classic Movie Review 9015

Director Sidney Hayers’s exceptionally good-looking 1966 Anglo-Canadian romantic adventure The Trap [L’Aventure Sauvage] stars Oliver Reed as tough French-Canadian fur trapper Jean La Bête, who buys mute orphan Eve (Rita Tushingham) to be his wife […]

Oct, 24

Lure of the Wilderness *** (1952, Jean Peters, Jeffrey Hunter, Constance Smith, Walter Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 8978

Jean Renoir’s 1941 black and white American début movie Swamp Water is remade here in director Jean Negulesco’s 1952 romantic adventure drama Lure of the Wilderness with the definite advantage of Edward Cronjager’s excellent Technicolor […]

Oct, 13

Flight to Fury ** (1964, Dewey Martin, Fay Spain, Jack Nicholson) – Classic Movie Review 7848

Director Monte Hellman and writer/ star Jack Nicholson shot the 1964 black and white adventure movie Flight to Fury on location in the Philippines together with their Back Door to Hell. In the story by Monte Hellman […]

Nov, 27

Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog *** (1995, Jesse Bradford) – Classic Movie Review 1534

Jesse Bradford is super as young Angus McCormick (aged 14), who finds himself washed ashore in the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest after a storm capsizes his boat at sea and separates him from his […]

Aug, 10

The Edge **** (1997, Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin, Elle Macpherson) – Classic Movie Review 1031

Director Lee Tamahori’s 1997 adventure offers Anthony Hopkins a chance he eagerly grabs to enjoy has a field day as an endlessly resourceful billionaire who suffers a plane crash and has to survive the Alaskan […]

Apr, 01

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