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Battle Taxi ** (1955, Sterling Hayden, Arthur Franz, Marshall Thompson) – Classic Movie Review 12,826

Director Herbert L Strock’s 1955 war film Battle Taxi stars Sterling Hayden, Arthur Franz, and Marshall Thompson. It sets out to show how important helicopter rescue team work is in the Korean War. Captain Russ […]

Mar, 12

Dirty Mary Crazy Larry *** (1974, Peter Fonda, Susan George, Adam Roarke, Vic Morrow, Kenneth Tobey and Roddy McDowall) – Classic Movie Review 11,182

PETER FONDA drivin’ hard!! SUSAN GEORGE ridin’ easy!!… Director John Hough’s 1974 non-stop action thriller Dirty Mary Crazy Larry stars Peter Fonda, Susan George, Adam Roarke, Vic Morrow, Kenneth Tobey and Roddy McDowall, and is […]

May, 08

Treasure of the Yankee Zephyr [Race for the Yankee Zephyr] ** (1981, Ken Wahl, Lesley Ann Warren, Donald Pleasence, George Peppard) – Classic Movie Review 11,011

British actor-producer David Hemmings went Down Under to New Zealand to direct the promising and good-looking but undemanding and partly fumbled 1981 action adventure Treasure of the Yankee Zephyr [Race for the Yankee Zephyr] about […]

Mar, 11

Empire State ** (1987, Cathryn Harrison, Jason Hoganson, Glen Murphy, Ian Sears, Martin Landau, Ray McAnally) – Classic Movie Review 10,769

Director Ron Peck’s 1987 crime thriller Empire State is an intriguing attempt to bring the American gangster style to Britain in an adult yarn about a young Yankee mobster arriving at the title nightclub to […]

Jan, 08

Mitchell *** (1975, Joe Don Baker, Martin Balsam, John Saxon, Linda Evans) – Classic Movie Review 10,052

Director Andrew McLaglen’s 1975 thriller Mitchell stars Joe Don Baker, who is well cast as Mitchell, a rough cop (‘brute force with a badge’) relentlessly pursuing a crime gang in Los Angeles in this tense, […]

Jul, 18

Hanky Panky ** (1982, Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner, Kathleen Quinlan, Richard Widmark) – Classic Movie Review 9231

Sidney Poitier directs the 1982 Hitchcockian comedy thriller Hanky Panky, with Gene Wilder as an innocent architect, Michael Jordon, chased across country by spies and police. Gilda Radner plays the mystery woman accompanying him and […]

Jan, 06

Dog Day [Canicule] *** (1984, Lee Marvin, Miou-Miou, Jean Carmet, Victor Lanoux, Bernadette Lafont, David Bennent) – Classic Movie Review 8440

Lee Marvin is ideal as Jimmy Cobb, a brutal American bank robber on the run with several million dollars, hiding out with a French country family of farmers, who become fascinated by his almost magical presence […]

May, 06

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