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Inchon (1981, Laurence Olivier, Jacqueline Bisset, Ben Gazzara, Toshiro Mifune, Richard Roundtree) – Classic Movie Review 11,651

‘LOVE. DESTINY. HEROES. War Changes Everything’ Director Terence Young’s 1981 epic war film Inchon re-creates the Battle of Inchon during the Korean War and is reputedly one of the most expensive films and one of the […]

Oct, 16

Viva Villa! *** (1934, Wallace Beery, Fay Wray, Leo Carrillo) – Classic Movie Review 9760

Viva Villa! (1934) and an MGM mess in Mexico…  Directors Jack Conway and Howard Hawks’s fictionalised 1934 historical adventure Viva Villa! Stars the irrepressible Wallace Beery, who shines as the Mexican revolutionary bandit Pancho Villa, […]

May, 13

Alvarez Kelly *** (1966, William Holden, Richard Widmark, Janice Rule) – Classic Movie Review 9073

Based on an actual incident, director Edward Dmytryk’s meaty 1966 American Civil War Western saga Alvarez Kelly is firm enough in its staunch liberal-minded principles to stay on course when the unravelling of the plot occasionally […]

Nov, 16

American Guerrilla in the Philippines ** (1950, Tyrone Power, Micheline Presle, Tom Ewell) – Classic Movie Review 8386

Director Fritz Lang’s conscientious 1950 World War Two wartime-set adventure movie American Guerrilla in the Philippines [aka I Shall Return] has the advantage of being filmed where it happened (Manila and Subic Bay in the […]

Apr, 22

Twilight’s Last Gleaming **** (1977, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Charles Durning, Melvyn Douglas, Paul Winfield, Burt Young, Joseph Cotten) – Classic Movie Review 8239

Director Robert Aldrich’s 1977 thriller Twilight’s Last Gleaming is a gleaming, smart thriller, starring Burt Lancaster as Lawrence Dell, a maverick Air Force general who escapes from a military prison and captures a US missile […]

Mar, 13

Waltz of the Toreadors ** (1962, Peter Sellers, Dany Robin, John Fraser, Cyril Cusack, Margaret Leighton) – Classic Movie Review 7434

Jean Anouilh’s French farce Waltz of the Toreadors is filmed in Britain in 1962 by director John Guillermin as a vehicle for Peter Sellers playing a lecherous old general, Gen Leo Fitzjohn, who retires to his Sussex […]

Aug, 12

The Night of the Generals ** (1967, Peter O’Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay, Christopher Plummer, Donald Pleasence, Joanna Pettet, Charles Gray, Coral Browne, John Gregson, Harry Andrews, Nigel Stock) – Classic Movie Review 7109

Director Anatole Litvak’s star-heavy, serious-minded 1967 wartime-set whodunit is based on a novel by Hans Hellmut Kirst, in which a Polish prostitute is killed in Warsaw in 1942 by a man dressed as a Nazi general. […]

Jun, 01

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