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Posts Tagged "Napoleon"

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Madame Sans-Gêne [Madame] ** (1961, Sophia Loren, Robert Hossein, Julien Bertheau, Renaud Mary, Léa Gray, Gianrico Tedeschi, Marina Berti) – Classic Movie Review 12,788

The 1961 Euro romance film Madame Sans-Gêne [Madame] is an attractive but sluggish remake of a famous 1893 hit play, and stars Sophia Loren as a Paris laundress who follows Napoleon’s army to the battlefront […]

Jan, 09

The Story of Mankind * (1957, Vincent Price, Ronald Colman, Cedric Hardwicke, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Groucho Marx, Hedy Lamarr, Peter Lorre) – Classic Movie Review 11,363

Irwin Allen’s 1957 The Story of Mankind is a bizarre débâcle that has earned a place in the 1978 book The Fifty Worst Films of All Time. Director/ co–producer Irwin Allen’s 1957 American Technicolor fantasy […]

Jul, 03

The Sword of Monte Cristo ** (1951, George Montgomery, Rita Corday, Berry Kroeger) Classic Movie Review 10,984

‘Her sword… Her lips… Her heart… Brought all of France to her feet!’ Well that’s a tough act to live up to! Writer-director Maurice Geraghty’s 1951 film The Sword of Monte Cristo is a sub-standard […]

Mar, 03

Waterloo **** (1970, Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles) – Classic Movie Review 10,367

Director Sergei Bondarchuk’s 1970 Italian-Russian co-produced historical epic Waterloo showcases fine acting from Rod Steiger as escaped Napoleon Bonaparte and Christopher Plummer as British general Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington. The two meet at Waterloo. […]

Sep, 30

The Brigand ** (1952, Anthony Dexter, Anthony Quinn, Gale Robbins, Jody Lawrence) – Classic Movie Review 7864

Director Phil Karlson’s 1952 Columbia Pictures romantic adventure The Brigand is a cheap and fairly cheerful reworking of Alexandre Dumas’s story Brigand: A Romance of the Reign of Don Carlos, with Anthony Dexter in both […]

Dec, 01

The House of Rothschild ***½ (1934, George Arliss, Loretta Young, Boris Karloff, Robert Young, C Aubrey Smith) – Classic Movie Review 5638

Director Alfred L Werker’s extravagantly produced 1934 saga tells of the rise of the Jewish banking family in 19th-century France and the Rothschild financial empire, inherited by his five sons, which helps to finance the war […]

Jun, 20

The Count of Monte Cristo **** (1934, Robert Donat, Louis Calhern, Sidney Blackmer, Elissa Landi, Raymond Walburn, William Farnum, O P Heggie) – Classic Movie Review 3003

The 1934 adventure movie The Count of Monte Cristo is a thrilling version of the Alexandre Dumas 1844 novel, with Robert Donat in the star role. Screen-writer Philip Dunne said he never read it and […]

Oct, 21

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