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- Brief Encounter (1974, Richard Burton, Sophia Loren) – Classic Movie Review 13,411
- The Six Men ** (1951, Harold Warrender, Olga Edwardes, Peter Bull, Michael Evans) – Classic Movie Review 13,410
- Battle of the V-1 *** (1958, Michael Rennie, Patricia Medina, David Knight, Esmond Knight, Christopher Lee, Carl Jaffe, Peter Madden) – Classic Movie Review 13,409
- Make Me an Offer *** (1954, Peter Finch, Adrienne Corri, Rosalie Crutchley, Finlay Currie, Meier Tzelniker, Ernest Thesiger, Wilfrid Lawson) – Classic Movie Review 13,408
- The St Louis Bank Robbery *** (1959, Steve McQueen, Crahan Denton, David Clarke, Molly McCarthy) – Classic Movie Review 13,407
- Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer ** (1956, Bruce Bennett, Lon Chaney Jr, Faron Young) – Classic Movie Review 13,406
- Paranormal Activity *** (2007, Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat) – Classic Movie Review 13,405
- Guilty? ** (1956, John Justin, Barbara Laage, Donald Wolfit, Stephen Murray) – Classic Movie Review 13,404
- End of the Century [Fin de Siglo] *** (2019, Juan Barberini, Ramón Pujol, Mía Maestro) – Classic Movie Review 13,403
- At War with the Army ** (1951, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Mike Kellin, Polly Bergen, Jimmie Dundee, Angela Greene, Dick Stabile) – Classic Movie Review 13,402
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Glory **** (1989, Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, Cary Elwes, Andre Braugher, John Finn, Jihmi Kennedy, Donovan Leitch Jr) – Classic Movie Review 3192
Director Edward Zwick’s distinguished, potent and highly emotional 1989 war movie about America’s first all-black volunteer company at the time of the American Civil War is, as it must be, a visceral experience as a violent and […]
Basic * (2003, John Travolta, Connie Nielsen, Samuel L Jackson, Giovanni Ribisi, Brian Van Holt) – Classic Movie Review 2961
Director John McTiernan’s all-too-basic 2003 thriller stars John Travolta and Connie Nielsen as DEA drug agents who investigate deaths in the American army. The deaths seem to involve a sadistic sergeant, played by Samuel L Jackson. […]
The Giant of Marathon [La battaglia di Maratona] *** (1959, Steve Reeves, Mylène Demongeot, Sergio Fantoni) – Classic Movie Review 2904
Director Jacques Tourneur’s engaging 1959 swashbuckling sword-and-sandal historical adventure is an American-Italian-French co-production, involving Titanus, Galatea and MGM. It is filmed at the Titanus studios in Rome. A suddenly incredibly popular and busy Steve Reeves, […]
Queen and Country **** (2014, Callum Turner, Caleb Landry Jones, David Thewlis, Richard E Grant, Pat Shortt, Sinéad Cusack) – Movie Review
Writer-director John Boorman’s sequel to his semi-autobiographical charmer Hope and Glory (1987) is an old-fashioned, civilised pleasure. Callum Turner stars as the grown up 19-year-old Bill Rohan who is drafted into the army, does basic training […]
Gunga Din ***** (1939, Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jnr, Sam Jaffe) – Classic Movie Review 2439
Director George Stevens’s stirring 1939 movie Gunga Din was RKO Radio Pictures’ biggest movie up till that time. It is a hugely entertaining North West Frontier adventure yarn based loosely on Rudyard Kipling’s poem. Cary […]
Julius Caesar **** (1953, John Gielgud, Marlon Brando, James Mason, Louis Calhern, Greer Garson, Deborah Kerr, Edmond O’Brien) – Classic Movie Review 2,383
Joseph L Mankiewicz’s fine 1953 Hollywood film of Shakespeare’s Roman play Julius Caesar assembles a grand line-up of real actors in John Gielgud, Marlon Brando, James Mason, Louis Calhern and Edmond O’Brien. Writer-director Joseph L […]
Viva Zapata! **** (1952, Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn) – Classic Movie Review 2382
Buried under a big moustache and a big hat, Marlon Brando may be very oddly, indeed uncomfortably, cast as the Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata in director Elia Kazan’s 1952 historical drama biopic. But nevertheless Brando […]