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Midas Run [A Run on Gold] ** (1969, Fred Astaire, Richard Crenna, Anne Heywood, Ralph Richardson, Roddy McDowall, Adolfo Celi, Maurice Denham, Cesar Romero) – Classic Movie Review 10,682
Director Alf Kjellin’s 1969 Midas Run [A Run on Gold] stars Fred Astaire as a devious veteran British secret service agent called John Pedley, who plots with duped professor Mike Warden (Richard Crenna) to steal a […]
Any Number Can Win [Mélodie en sous-sol] **** (1963, Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Claude Cerval) – Classic Movie Review 9,595
The 1963 French crime thriller Any Number Can Win [Mélodie en sous-sol] stars Jean Gabin as old career criminal Mister Charles and Alain Delon as his young former cellmate Francis Verlot, who plan to rob […]
The Great Muppet Caper *** (1981, voices of Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Dave Goelz, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt, Steve Whitmire) – Classic Movie Review 8175
Director Jim Henson’s Muppets again feature in the 1981 The Great Muppet Caper, a much-improved sequel to the 1979 first caper The Muppet Movie, with a amiable selection of largely British performers, raising reliable laughs. […]
Family Business *** (1989, Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman, Matthew Broderick) – Classic Movie Review 8031
Sean Connery has good fun with his role as an ageing small-time hoodlum, a career criminal called Jessie, in director Sidney Lumet’s excellent, well-plotted 1989 heist thriller Family Business. It is sharply directed by Lumet, […]
Steelyard Blues **** (1973, Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Peter Boyle, Howard Hesseman, John Savage) – Classic Movie Review 7561
After their 1971 big hit Klute, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland were right to team up again for director Alan Myerson’s 1973 Steelyard Blues. It is a much less compelling but still quite endearing oddity about […]
The War Wagon *** (1967, John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Howard Keel, Robert Walker Jr, Keenan Wynn, Bruce Cabot, Gene Evans, Bruce Dern) – Classic Movie Review 6481
Played for laughs, director Burt Kennedy’s 1967 movie cracks along at a fine gallop thanks to the sharp screenplay from Clair Huffaker (who adapts his novel The Badman) and the snappy direction. John Wayne (as […]
They Came to Rob Las Vegas [Las Vegas, 500 millones] **** (1968, Gary Lockwood, Elke Sommer, Jack Palance, Lee J Cobb, Jean Servais) – Classic Movie Review 6392
Director Antonio Isasi’s thoroughly entertaining and involving 1968 heist caper is based on André Lay’s 1967 novel, in which an armed gang crime outfit plans to mount a desert attack on a hi-tech armoured truck chock […]