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Brass Target **½ (1978, Sophia Loren, John Cassavetes, Max von Sydow, George Kennedy, Patrick McGoohan, Robert Vaughn) – Classic Movie Review 10,356

Director John Hough’s fanciful 1978 MGM political action thriller Brass Target, based on the novel The Algonquin Project by Frederick Nolan, re-writes history and is low on credibility rating, but there is such a pile-up […]

Sep, 28

The Ballad of Lucy Whipple *** (2001, Glenn Close, Jena Malone, Bruce McGill) – Classic Movie Review 10,290

Director Jeremy Paul Kagan’s 2001 TV movie The Ballad of Lucy Whipple is a superior, pacy, gripping adventure about a mom, Arvella Whipple (Glenn Close), and her three children heading West after the death of […]

Sep, 10

A Rage in Harlem *** (1991, Forest Whitaker, Gregory Hines, Robin Givens, Zakes Mokae, Danny Glover) – Classic Movie Review 9980

Director Bill Duke’s 1991 neo noir thriller A Rage in Harlem is based on Chester Himes’s novel and stars Forest Whitaker as clumsy but nice Harlem hero Jackson, who meets and falls for sassy and […]

Jun, 29

The First Great Train Robbery [The Great Train Robbery] *** (1978, Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down) – Classic Movie Review 9502

‘Steal from a moving train? Whoever heard of such a thing!’ All aboard the London to Folkestone express for writer-director Michael Crichton’s 1979 Victorian crime caper, The First Great Train Robbery [The Great Train Robbery], […]

Mar, 13

Adiós, Sabata **** (1970, Yul Brynner, Dean Reed, Ignazio Spalla) – Classic Movie Review 9111

Director Gianfranco Parolini’s outstanding 1970 Italian Spaghetti Western film Adiós, Sabata [Indio Black, sai che ti dico: Sei un gran figlio di…] is the second film in Parolini’s Sabata Trilogy, with Yul Brynner replacing Lee […]

Nov, 30

Lust for Gold *** (1949, Ida Lupino, Glenn Ford, Gig Young) – Classic Movie Review 9077

Producer-director S Sylvan Simon’s 1949 Lust for Gold stars Ida Lupino, who is suitably tough and completely believable as Julia Thomas, the ruthless woman trying to steal a gold mine from her equally money-obsessed cohorts […]

Nov, 18

City Beneath the Sea ** (1953, Robert Ryan, Mala Powers, Anthony Quinn, Suzan Ball) – Classic Movie Review 8940

Director Budd Boetticher’s acceptable 1953 Technicolor underwater action adventure drama City Beneath the Sea stars Anthony Quinn and Robert Ryan as daredevil deep-sea divers Tony Bartlett and Brad Carlton arriving in Jamaica to salvage the […]

Sep, 26

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