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The Black Hole *** (1979, Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins, Ernest Borgnine, Yvette Mimieux, Robert Forster, Joseph Bottoms, Tom McLoughlin) – Classic Movie Review 3711

The Walt Disney Studio, under producer Ron Miller, commendably trying for something different in 1979, came up with director Gary Nelson’s extremely good-looking but rather poorly conceived sci-fi adventure about a group of American researchers […]

May, 15

On the Beach **** (1959, Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins, Donna Anderson) – Classic Movie Review 3501

Stanley Kramer’s sombre 1959 drama film On the Beach is based on Nevil Shute’s novel depicting the aftermath of a nuclear war, and stars Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner and Anthony Perkins. Producer-director Stanley Kramer’s sombre 1959 nuclear […]

Mar, 25

WUSA **** (1970, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Perkins, Laurence Harvey, Pat Hingle, Don Gordon, Robert Quarry, Clifton James, David Huddleston, Cloris Leachman) – Classic Movie Review 2958

Director Stuart Rosenberg’s ambitious 1970 drama is a painstaking, involving and intelligent political allegory, with meaty roles for Paul Newman, his wife Joanne Woodward and Anthony Perkins, who reward audiences with careful, winning performances. Newman […]

Oct, 05

The Trial ****½ (1962, Anthony Perkins, Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider, Orson Welles, Elsa Martinelli) – Classic Movie Review 2141

Writer-director Orson Welles’s 1962 movie version of Franz Kafka’s novel about a man caught in a Kafkaesque bureaucratic red-tape legal nightmare is compelling, engrossing and spectacularly imaginative. Welles said with his usual modesty: ‘The Trial […]

Feb, 01

The Tin Star **** (1957, Henry Fonda, Anthony Perkins, Betsy Palmer, Michel Ray, Neville Brand, John McIntire) – Classic Movie Review 2051

Anthony Mann’s tense and taut 1957 Western stars Henry Fonda as cynical ex-sheriff turned bounty hunter ‘Morg’ Hickman and Anthony Perkins as the young sheriff. Director Anthony Mann’s tense and taut 1957 Western film The […]

Jan, 04

Murder on the Orient Express **** (1974, Albert Finney, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery, Vanessa Redgrave) – Classic Movie Review 1304

Director Sidney Lumet’s sumptuous, famous 1974 film mystery set a cinema trend, starting a long, profitable train of Agatha Christie hit movies. This film’s tagline is ‘The greatest cast of suspicious characters ever involved in murder.’ […]

Jun, 07

Psycho ***** (1960, Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Patricia Hitchcock, Martin Balsam, John McIntire, Lurene Tuttle) – Classic Movie Review 8

‘Do you have any vacancies?’ ‘Oh, we have 12 vacancies. 12 cabins, 12 vacancies.’ Alfred Hitchcock’s once dreaded and despised nail-biting 1960 horror classic Psycho had people boycotting it in fear at the cinema and […]

Jun, 29

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