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Posts Tagged "Burt Lancaster"

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Judgment at Nuremberg ***** (1961, Spencer Tracy, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Maximilian Schell, Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, William Shatner) – Classic Movie Review 3.503

Spencer Tracy is superb as the American chief judge, Dan Haywood, who sits in judgment over a 1948 war crimes trial in Nuremberg, Germany, in producer-director Stanley Kramer’s powerful and moving double Oscar-winning 1961 drama […]

Mar, 26

The Flame and the Arrow ***** (1950, Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Robert Douglas, Robin Hughes, Norman Lloyd, Nick Cravat) – Classic Movie Review 3472

Italy’s tempestuous history is profitably explored in director Jacques Tourneur’s thrilling 1950 adventure The Flame and the Arrow. It stars an amazingly athletic Burt Lancaster, who leaps from one derring-do moment to another in Warner […]

Mar, 13

The Crimson Pirate ***** (1952, Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat, Eva Bartok) – Classic Movie Review 3471

Director Robert Siodmak’s 1952 classic stars a wonderfully agile Burt Lancaster as Captain Vallo, aka The Crimson Pirate, and his former circus acrobat partner Nick Cravat as Ojo. Lancaster and Cravat are awash in acrobatic […]

Mar, 12

Airport **** (1970, Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, George Kennedy, Helen Hayes, Jean Seberg, Jacqueline Bisset, Van Heflin, Maureen Stapleton, Barry Nelson) – Classic Movie Review 3432

Airport is rightly considered by many to be the grandfather of the disaster movie genre as the precursor to later epic Seventies disaster films. In a dramatic 12 hours, the twin hazards of a severe […]

Mar, 01

Conversation Piece [Gruppo di Famiglia in un Interno] **** (1974, Burt Lancaster, Helmut Berger, Silvana Mangano) – Classic Movie Review 3190

Luchino Visconti’s 1974 penultimate film Conversation Piece is a stately, elegant and affecting fable, reuniting him with his longtime companion Helmut Berger and Burt Lancaster.  Co-writer/director Luchino Visconti’s penultimate conversation piece movie from 1974 is […]

Dec, 28

Atlantic City ***** (1980, Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Kate Reid, Robert Joy, Hollis McLaren, Michel Piccoli, Al Waxman) – Classic Movie Review 2717

French director Louis Malle’s superb 1980 American-set romantic thriller is a triumph for him and his stars Burt Lancaster and Susan Sarandon. This magical film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1980 […]

Jul, 17

Field of Dreams ***** (1989, Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones, Ray Liotta, Burt Lancaster, Amy Madigan) Classic Movie Review 2,633

Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones, Ray Liotta, Burt Lancaster, Amy Madigan star in the classic 1989 fantasy drama film Field of Dreams, a huge success for Kevin Costner, as struggling Iowa corn farmer Ray Kinsella. […]

Jun, 23

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