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Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore ***** (1974, Ellen Burstyn, Kris Kristofferson, Alfred Lutter III, Billy Green Bush, Lelia Goldoni, Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel, Valerie Curtin, Diane Ladd, Vic Tayback, Mia Bendixsen) – Classic Movie Review 3,425

Martin Scorsese’s 1974 romantic drama film Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore is a triumph, not least for Oscar-winning Ellen Burstyn but also for Kris Kristofferson as Alice’s good-hearted suitor. Hey, is this you? ‘A picture […]

Feb, 28

Broken Lance **** (1954, Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Earl Holliman, Hugh O’Brian) – Classic Movie Review 3396

Director Edward Dmytryk’s 1954 complex, consistently rewarding adult Western film Broken Lance is basically an unofficial reworking of Edward G Robinson’s House of Strangers (1947) with a heavy debt to King Lear, with Shakespeare’s daughters […]

Feb, 21

National Lampoon’s Vacation **** (1983, Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo, Anthony Michael Hall, Dana Barron, Imogene Coca, Eddie Bracken) – Classic Movie Review 2763

Director Harold Ramis’s 1983 comedy stars Chevy Chase as inventor Clark Griswold, who takes a vacation across America from the family home in Chicago to California’s famous ‘Walley World’ theme park, named after Eddie Bracken’s thin m0ustached […]

Aug, 01

Death Wish *** (1974, Charles Bronson, Hope Lange, Vincent Gardenia) – Classic Movie Review 2722

British director Michael Winner’s slick and gritty but unpleasant 1974 vigilante revenge thriller Death Wish finds Charles Bronson in his most famous performance as the initially nice New York City architect Paul Kersey. But he […]

Jul, 19

The Petrified Forest ***** (1936, Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart) – Classic Movie Review 2702

Robert Sherwood’s classic doom-laden and symbolic play is too reverentially and stagily shot in 1936 by Archie L Mayo, who is content to deliver it as a rather creaky movie museum piece of filmed theatre and not […]

Jul, 19

Coogan’s Bluff **** (1968, Clint Eastwood, Lee J Cobb, Susan Clark, Tisha Sterling, Don Stroud) – Classic Movie Review 2,572

Don Siegel’s exciting 1968 cop thriller film Coogan’s Bluff stars Clint Eastwood as an Arizona deputy sheriff who travels to New York City to extradite a prisoner (Don Stroud), who escapes and is wanted for […]

Jun, 08

It Came from Outer Space **** (1953, Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake) – Classic Movie Review 2,443

Jack Arnold’s 1953 black-and-white sci-fi film It Came from Outer Space is notable as the first in 3D from Universal. Barbara Rush won a Golden Globe as most promising female newcomer. Director Jack Arnold’s 1953 […]

May, 02

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