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Criss Cross **** (1949, Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea) – Classic Movie Review 1579

Director Robert Siodmak’s intriguing tangled web of a 1949 thriller stars Burt Lancaster as Steve Thompson, who returns to his home town of Los Angeles and finds his lovely ex-wife Anna Dundee (Yvonne De Carlo) […]

Aug, 23

Birdman of Alcatraz **** (1962, Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter, Telly Savalas) – Classic Movie Review 1438

In director John Frankenheimer’s 1962 classic, Burt Lancaster gives one of his finest performances as the notorious and violent but mild-mannered real-life jailed killer Robert Stroud, who is locked away in Leavenworth Prison in 1912 for murdering […]

Jul, 16

Gunfight at the OK Corral ***** (1957, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Jo Van Fleet, John Ireland) – Classic Movie Review 1393

In one of their finest Westerns, Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas star together as marshal Wyatt Earp and gunslinger Doc Holliday for director John Sturges’s 1957 classic Gunfight at the OK Corral. It certainly deserves […]

Jul, 04

The Leopard [Il Gattopardo] ***** (1963, Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale) – Classic Movie Review 1243

Burt Lancaster is on his most commanding form as a proud Sicilian nobleman, and Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale are at their most wonderfully dashing as the young lovers, in Luchino Visconti’s awesome and majestic […]

May, 23

The Killers ***** (1946, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien, Albert Dekker) – Classic Movie Review 1137

Director Robert Siodmak turns Ernest Hemingway’s short story about a gangster waiting passively for the two professional killers who are coming to get him into an extremely atmospheric, tense and stylish hard-nosed, hard-boiled film noir crime […]

Apr, 22

The Island of Dr Moreau (1977, Burt Lancaster) – Classic Film Review 906

Burt Lancaster stars in 1977 as mad scientist Dr Paul Moreau who creates human-animal hybrids in a gripping, atmospheric and lavish remake of the 1933 film The Island of Lost Souls with Charles Laughton, from the […]

Mar, 12

Sorry, Wrong Number **** (1948, Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards ) – Classic Movie Review 720

Barbara Stanwyck earned an Oscar nomination for her thrilling performance as Leona Stevenson, a paranoid, hypochondriac woman confined to her bed who accidentally overhears on the phone a conversation between two men planning to murder […]

Jan, 19

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