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Posts Tagged "1940s"

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Anzio [Lo sbarco di Anzio] ** (1968, Robert Mitchum, Peter Falk, Robert Ryan, Earl Holliman, Mark Damon) – Classic Movie Review 6448

The exciting star cast of Robert Mitchum, Peter Falk, Arthur Kennedy and Robert Ryan, and a lavish production spearhead director Edward Dmytryk’s 1968 movie attack on the World War Two story of the allied invasion […]

Dec, 21

White Mischief **** (1987, Charles Dance, Greta Scacchi, Joss Ackland, John Hurt) – Classic Movie Review 6,406

Joss Ackland CBE (29 February 1928 – 19 November 2023) appeared in more than 130 films and TV shows. He was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for the 1987 film White […]

Dec, 14

Comes a Horseman ***½ (1978, Jane Fonda, Jason Robards, James Caan, George Grizzard, Richard Farnsworth, Jim Davis, Mark Harmon) – Classic Movie Review 6379

Director Alan J Pakula’s 1978 modern-day 1940s-set Western is impressive and relishable, even if it is not entirely successful. Jane Fonda and James Caan play Ella Connors and ‘Buck’ Athearn, Montana ranch-owners who fight wicked […]

Dec, 09

Goodbye, Mr Chips ***½ (1969, Peter O’Toole, Petula Clark, Michael Redgrave, Michael Bryant, Alison Leggatt, George Baker, Jack Hedley, Siân Phillips) –  Classic Movie Review 6338

Director Herbert Ross’s expensive ($9 million) big-scale musical version of the famous 1939 Robert Donat weepie was a dangerously risky idea in the radical days of 1969 and it duly flopped despite the MGM fanfare […]

Dec, 01

Neruda *** (2016, Gael García Bernal, Luis Gnecco, Mercedes Morán) – Movie Review

‘Jackie‘ (2016) and The Club (2015) director Pablo Larraín’s 2016 biographical drama is an unusual, surprising eye-opener of a film. It is most welcome as an intriguing, provocative and different film. It is full of provocative […]

Apr, 08

Charlotte Gray ** (2001, Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Michael Gambon, Rupert Penry-Jones, Anton Lesser, James Fleet, Abigail Cruttenden) – Classic Movie Review 5208

Cate Blanchett impresses as a Scottish clerk, who in 1943 goes to France, joins the resistance (led by Billy Crudup) and helps two Jewish boys. Exciting bursts of tough action enliven this routine, slackly paced […]

Mar, 28

Hacksaw Ridge ** (2016, Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington, Luke Bracey, Hugo Weaving, Rachel Griffiths, Vince Vaughn, Teresa Palmer) – Movie Review

Hacksaw Ridge tells the incredible true story of World War Two American Army Medic Desmond T Doss, who refuses to kill people as a conscientious objector but feels it is his duty to serve in […]

Jan, 24

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