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Caravan to Vaccares ** (1974, David Birney, Charlotte Rampling, Michael Lonsdale, Marcel Bozuffi, Michael Bryant) – Classic Movie Review 10,173

David Birney stars with Charlotte Rampling and Michael Lonsdale in the 1974 British-French action film Caravan to Vaccarès, based on the novel by Alistair MacLean.  ‘The Guns of Navarone – Where Eagles Dare – When […]

Aug, 13

The Betsy * (1978, Laurence Olivier, Robert Duvall, Katharine Ross, Tommy Lee Jones) – Classic Movie Review 9917

Heavens to betsy, it’s esteemed septuagenarian peer Lord Olivier starring in director Daniel Petrie’s 1977 farrago film The Betsy, a tacky movie adaptation of Harold Robbins’s best-selling 1971 novel, as Loren Hardeman Snr, aka Number […]

Jun, 16

Smiley’s People **** (1982, Alec Guinness, Eileen Atkins, Bill Paterson, Patrick Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 9660

Director Simon Langton’s 1982 TV mini-series Smiley’s People is the eagerly awaited sequel to the 1979 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, which this time has a surprisingly thin plot (at least for this running time of […]

Apr, 21

The Fifth Musketeer ** (1979, Sylvia Kristel, Ursula Andress, Beau Bridges, José Ferrer, Lloyd Bridges, Alan Hale Jr, Rex Harrison, Olivia de Havilland, Cornel Wilde, Ian McShane, Helmut Dantine) – Classic Movie Review 8905

Director Ken Annakin assembles a friendly all-star cast for the 1979 adventure The Fifth Musketeer [Behind the Iron Mask], his spectacular-looking, but turgidly scripted remake of Alexandre Dumas Père’s classic novel The Vicomte of Bragelonne: […]

Sep, 15

The Return of the Pink Panther *** (1975, Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Catherine Schell, Herbert Lom) – Classic Movie Review 8294

Co-writer/ producer/ director Blake Edwards’s bright and lively 1975 slapstick comedy sequel The Return of the Pink Panther stars Peter Sellers, who got his career back on the rails by returning to his iconic hit […]

Mar, 25

Target ** (1985, Gene Hackman, Matt Dillon, Gayle Hunnicutt) – Classic Movie Review 7310

Director Arthur Penn’s 1985 Target is a tolerable but off-target thriller from the director of Bonnie and Clyde, who goes into overdrive to try to provide action thrills, which nevertheless just are not there. It […]

Jul, 19

In the Line of Fire **** (1993, Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Rene Russo, Dylan McDermott, Gary Cole, John Mahoney) – Classic Movie Review 5794

Director Wolfgang Petersen’s classy 1993 thriller finds an ideal role for Clint Eastwood as Secret Service Agent Frank Horrigan, an FBI man who failed to put his body in the line of fire to save […]

Jul, 21

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