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Sergeant Steiner [Breakthrough] *** (1979, Richard Burton, Rod Steiger, Helmut Griem, Curd Jürgens, Robert Mitchum, Michael Parks, Klaus Löwitsch) – Classic Movie Review 8359

With Sam Peckinpah’s 1977 Cross of Iron judged a success, a sequel called Sergeant Steiner [aka Steiner – Das Eiserne Kreuz, 2. Teil, aka Breakthrough] was ordered in 1979, directed by Andrew V McLaglen. James […]

Apr, 12

Reunion **** (1989, Jason Robards, Christien Anholt, Samuel West) – Classic Movie Review 6804

Reunion is the haunting story of the broken ‘enchanted friendship’ of two teenage boys of different backgrounds in 1932-33 Germany, with Harold Pinter’s distinguished screenplay adapting Fred Uhlman’s novel. Count Konradin von Lohenburg: ‘I believe in […]

Mar, 14

Rogue Male ***½ (1976, Peter O’Toole, John Standing, Alastair Sim, Cyd Hayman, Harold Pinter) – Classic Movie Review 4911

Peter O’Toole is ideally cast and gives a powerful performance as Captain Robert Thorndike, the resourceful, upper-class Englishman who sets out to shoot Adolf Hitler early in 1939. O’Toole gives a strong boost to director Clive Donner’s […]

Jan, 20

Let George Do It ***½ (1940, George Formby, Phyllis Calvert, Garry Marsh, Romney Brent, Bernard Lee, Coral Browne, Torin Thatcher) – Classic Movie Review 4874

Director Marcel Varnel’s 1940 British black-and-white comedy musical war film stars George Formby as George Hepplewhite, a daft ukulele playing concert-party member, who mistakes Bergen, Norway, for Blackpool, England. Having taken the wrong boat and […]

Jan, 11

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer **** (1935, Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Richard Cromwell, Guy Standing, C Aubrey Smith, J Carroll Naish, Akim Tamiroff, Monte Blue, Douglass Dumbrille) – Classic Movie Review 4745

Director Henry Hathaway went to the Northwest Frontier and took a crew of distinguished actors for this famous 1935 classic adventure movie epic tale of British bravado, based on the 1930 autobiography of British cavalry […]

Dec, 04

Triumph of the Will [Triumph des Willens] ***** (1935, Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Martin Bormann, Joseph Goebbels, Rudolf Hess, Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich) – Classic Movie Review 4476

‘Heil! Heil! Heil!’ Producer-writer-director Leni Riefenstahl’s legendary infamous 1935 Nazi film of the Third Reich’s 1934 Nazi Party Rally in Nuremberg, Germany, Triumph of the Will [Triumph des Willens], is astonishing as documentary and frightening […]

Oct, 16

A Special Day [Una Giornata Particolare] **** (1977, Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren) – Classic Movie Review 3,286

The 1977 Italian drama A Special Day [Una Giornata Particolare] is a special film, with Marcello Mastroianni superb as a persecuted gay radio announcer who meets a lonely mother (Sophia Loren) in Rome when Adolf […]

Jan, 20

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