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The Defiant Ones ****½ (1958, Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel) – Classic Movie Review 3424

Producer-director Stanley Kramer’s classic liberal 1958 film is a simple, moral tale that works well thanks to the strong writing, the classy photography, the all-round excellent performances, the exciting chase sequences, the crafted production and […]

Feb, 28

Operation Petticoat **** (1959, Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Joan O’Brien, Dina Merrill) – Classic Movie Review 3074

Director Blake Edwards’s 1959 comedy stars Cary Grant and Tony Curtis, who play ideally well together as an admiral and a conniving lieutenant. This is a warm-hearted, old-style World War Two comedy about salvaging the […]

Nov, 21

The Count of Monte Cristo *** (1975, Richard Chamberlain, Tony Curtis, Trevor Howard, Donald Pleasence, Louis Jourdan) – Classic Movie Review 3004

A dashing Richard Chamberlain swashes a merry buckle as Edmond Dantès, falsely sentenced to incarceration for life in the scary Chateau D’If jail, in screenwriter Sidney Carroll’s conscientious, literate and fairly faithful adaptation of the […]

Oct, 21

The Great Race ***** (1965, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Peter Falk, Keenan Wynn, Arthur O’Connell) – Classic Movie Review 2737

Director Blake Edwards re-teams the brilliant Some Like It Hot stars Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis as The Great Race’s moustachioed villain and handsome white-suited hero, who fight it out on the road from New […]

Jul, 24

The Boston Strangler **** (1968, Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 1683

  Director Richard Fleischer’s 1968 follow-up to his real-life thriller Compulsion is a documentary-style thriller about the capture of a real-life 60s serial killer. It showcases a riveting tour-de-force performance by a heavily made-up, only semi-recognisable Tony Curtis […]

Sep, 17

The Mirror Crack’d *** (1980, Angela Lansbury, Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Novak, Tony Curtis, Rock Hudson, Edward Fox, Charles Gray, Wendy Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 1300

Thanks to her wonderfully camp and engaging appearance as a drunken romantic writer in Death on the Nile, Angela Lansbury was promoted to the plum star role of Agatha Christie’s nosy spinster sleuth Miss Jane […]

Jun, 07

The Celluloid Closet **** (1995, Lily Tomlin, Tony Curtis, Gore Vidal, Farley Granger, Harvey Fierstein, Quentin Crisp, Whoopi Goldberg, Tom Hanks) – Classic Film Review 656

Joint directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s 1995 invaluable documentary is a revealing and entertaining look at cinema’s 100 years of hidden agendas. Armistead Maupin’s screenplay is based on Vito Russo’s landmark book on gays […]

Jan, 08

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