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The Kissing Bandit ** (1948, Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, J Carrol Naish) – Classic Movie Review 4717

Frank Sinatra stars as Ricardo, a Mexican bandit’s shy son from Boston, who wants to lead a quiet life back East, but whose family insist that he has to keep up his father’s renown for theft […]

Nov, 28

Smokey and the Bandit **** (1977, Burt Reynolds, Jackie Gleason, Sally Field, Jerry Reed, Mike Henry, Paul Williams, Pat McCormick) – Classic Movie Review 4166

Director Hal Needham’s tremendous 1977 action comedy Smokey and the Bandit stars Burt Reynolds in one of his most famous and popular iconic roles as the Bandit, who tries to outrun cop Smokey on the […]

Aug, 13

Seven Women [7 Women] **** (1966, Anne Bancroft, Sue Lyon, Margaret Leighton, Flora Robson, Mildred Dunnock, Betty Field, Anna Lee, Eddie Albert) – Classic Movie Review 3995

John Ford said: ‘Seven Women (1966) is one of my favourite pictures. I thought it was a swell story and a good script.’ But, after three days of filming, original star Patricia Neal had a […]

Jul, 10

The Sicilian *** (1987, Christopher Lambert, Terence Stamp, Joss Ackland, John Turturro, Richard Bauer, Barbara Sukowa, Ray McAnally, Aldo Ray) – Movie Review 3964

Director Michael Cimino’s prestigious 1987 true-story-based thriller comes to us in a screenplay by the highly notable Steve Shagan and Gore Vidal, via a novel by Mario Puzo, the author of The Godfather. It is […]

Jul, 03

The Fall **** (2006, Lee Pace, Catinca Untaru, Justine Waddell) – Classic Movie Review 3829

Director Tarsem Singh’s astounding, wildly imaginative art movie stars Lee Pace as an injured stuntman in a 1920s Los Angeles hospital, who tells another patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a story about five […]

Jun, 09

The Blood of Fu Manchu * (1968, Christopher Lee, Richard Greene, Tsai Chin, Shirley Eaton, Howard Marion-Crawford, Götz George, Maria Rohm) – Classic Movie Review 2947

Director Jesús Franco’s crime thriller horror movie is the fifth and concluding chapter in Christopher Lee’s Fu Manchu cycle of movies. Series regulars Howard Marion-Crawford (as scientist Doctor Petrie) and Tsai Chin (as Fu’s daughter Lin […]

Oct, 03

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford ****½ (2007, Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard, Sam Rockwell) – Classic Movie Review 2400

Casey Affleck gives a superbly snivelling performance as the 20-year-old rat-like coward Robert Ford, who has idolised the Missouri outlaw gang leader Jesse James since childhood. Director Andrew Dominik‘s 2007 movie takes its place as one […]

Apr, 17

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