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Rampage ** (1963, Robert Mitchum, Elsa Martinelli, Jack Hawkins, Sabu) – Classic Movie Review 8192

‘The screen’s mightiest excitements go on the rampage!’ Director Phil Karlson’s undistinguished, old-fashioned 1963 movie Rampage is an everyday tale of big game hunting and romantic rivalry. It stars Jack Hawkins and Robert Mitchum as […]

Mar, 03

Hannibal Brooks *** (1969, Oliver Reed, Michael J Pollard, John Alderton, Wolfgang Preiss, Karin Baal, Helmuth Lohner) -Classic Movie Review 7770

Producer-director Michael Winner’s fondly remembered 1968 British World War Two caper film Hannibal Brooks is a wartime adventure yarn about an elephant crossing the Alps, starring Oliver Reed in one of his more memorable turns […]

Nov, 10

Fierce Creatures ** (1997, John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin) – Classic Movie Review 7699

The stars of the 1988 comedy triumph A Fish Called Wanda, John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline and Michael Palin, return for another amiable, though much less amusing farcical black comedy, directors Robert Young and […]

Oct, 24

Legend of the Werewolf ** (1975, Peter Cushing, Ron Moody, Hugh Griffith, Roy Castle David Rintoul) – Classic Movie Review 6208

Director Freddie Francis’s moderate British 1975 horror movie stars Peter Cushing as the police surgeon/ coroner Professor Paul, a lycanthrope expert who turns detective and follows the werewolf trail of grisly murders in 19th century France […]

Nov, 08

Creature Comforts **** (1989, voice of Julie Sedgewick) – Classic Movie Review 5564

Zoo animals state their case in writer-director Nick Park’s clever, appealing 1989 Oscar-winning animated short film, the first of his four Academy Awards, followed by The Wrong Trousers (1993), A Close Shave (1995) and the Best Animated Feature […]

Jun, 08

The Zookeeper’s Wife **** (2017, Jessica Chastain, Johan Heldenbergh, Daniel Brühl) -Movie Review

Jessica Chastain and Johan Heldenbergh star as the married couple Antonina and Jan Zabinski, keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, who helped save 300 people during the German invasion of Poland. Daniel Brühl plays the leading Nazi, […]

Apr, 22

Tickets for the Zoo *** (1991, Alice Bree, Tom Smith, Mickey MacPherson, Fiona Chalmers, Ashley Jensen) – Classic Movie Review 4857

Director Brian Crumlish’s 1991 British Film Four film is a touching tale of two troubled youngsters – teenagers George (Tom Smith) and Carol (Alice Bree) – who enter the big wide world full of hope […]

Jan, 07

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