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The Fourth Protocol ** (1987, Michael Caine, Pierce Brosnan, Joanna Cassidy, Ned Beatty) – Classic Movie Review 8170

Director John Mackenzie’s 1987 thriller The Fourth Protocol is based on a novel by Frederick Forsyth, and stars Michael Caine, Pierce Brosnan, Joanna Cassidy and Ned Beatty. Brosnan and Caine play super-smooth spy Valeri Petrofsky […]

Feb, 25

Hostile Witness ** (1968, Ray Milland, Sylvia Syms, Felix Aylmer) – Classic Movie Review 7923

Ray Milland directs the 1968 film of the British courtroom drama play by Jack Roffey which he had earlier appeared in successfully on Broadway, with Roffey writing his own screenplay. It was filmed at Shepperton Studios, Surrey, England. Milland also […]

Dec, 19

The Long Duel ** (1967, Trevor Howard, Yul Brynner, Harry Andrews, Charlotte Rampling, Andrew Keir) – Classic Movie Review 7793

Director Ken Annakin’s 1967 British action adventure film The Long Duel stars Trevor Howard, Yul Brynner, Harry Andrews, Charlotte Rampling, and Andrew Keir, and tells of a ‘conflict of ideals and arms’ that is ‘fought […]

Nov, 15

North West Frontier [Flame Over India] **** (1959, Kenneth More, Lauren Bacall, Herbert Lom, Ursula Jeans, Wilfrid Hyde White, I S Johar, Eugene Deckers, Ian Hunter) – Classic Movie Review 7762

Director J Lee Thompson’s 1959 British adventure North West Frontier [Flame Over India] stars Kenneth More as dashing, British army hero Captain William Charles Willoughby Scott, who is asked to take away an Indian Hindu […]

Nov, 08

‘Breaker’ Morant [Breaker Morant] ***** (1980, Edward Woodward, Bryan Brown, Jack Thompson, John Waters, Lewis Fitz-Gerald) – Classic Movie Review 7331

Director Bruce Beresford’s powerful and authentic 1980 drama ‘Breaker’ Morant is one of the gems of the first wave of the New Australian Cinema. It is 1901, in the Transvaal. British adventurer Harry ‘Breaker’ Morant (Edward […]

Jul, 23

Sea Wife ** (1957, Joan Collins, Richard Burton, Basil Sydney, Cy Grant) – Classic Movie Review 7318

‘One of the Most Challenging Stories of Faith Ever Told!’ Well, that was the plan, but things did not quite turn out like that. Director Bob McNaught’s 1957 British romantic drama Sea Wife stars Richard […]

Jul, 20

It Was an Accident (2000, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Max Beesley, James Bolam, Thandie Newton, Nicola Stapleton, Neil Dudgeon) – Classic Movie Review 7313

It was a comedy? No, I didn’t think so! Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in director Metin Hüseyin‘s 2000 It Was an Accident as Nicky Burkett, who comes out of jail after four years and returns to Walthamstow, London, to find […]

Jul, 20

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