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An Englishman Abroad **** (1983, Alan Bates, Coral Browne, Charles Gray) – Classic Movie Review 9269

Alan Bennett’s sharply witty screenplay for An Englishman Abroad (1983) is taken from the actress Coral Browne’s anecdote about how she met notorious spy traitor Guy Burgess in an Old Vic theatre exchange tour of […]

Jan, 16

The Internecine Project *** (1974, James Coburn, Lee Grant, Harry Andrews, Ian Hendry, Michael Jayston, Christiane Krüger, Keenan Wynn) – Classic Movie Review 9031

Director Ken Hughes’s 1974 The Internecine Project is a clever but heartless British-made thriller, with James Coburn enjoying himself as Professor Robert Elliot, an ambitious business tycoon who tries to erase evidence of his criminal […]

Oct, 30

Blindfold *** (1966, Rock Hudson, Claudia Cardinale, Jack Warden, Guy Stockwell, Brad Dexter, Anne Seymour, Alejandro Rey) – Classic Movie Review 8818

Co-writer/ director Philip Dunne’s enjoyable 1965 Swinging Sixties comedy crime mystery thriller Blindfold stars Rock Hudson as a New York psychiatrist, Dr Bartholomew Snow, who is hired by American general Prat (Jack Warden) and his […]

Aug, 11

The Fourth War ** (1990, Roy Scheider, Jürgen Prochnow, Tim Reid, Lara Harris, Harry Dean Stanton) – Classic Movie Review 8528

Director John Frankenheimer’s 1990 Cold War drama The Fourth War stars Roy Scheider and Jürgen Prochnow as cold warriors who fight it out in the snow, in this old-fashioned action thriller set where the Western […]

May, 31

Cold War [Zimna wojna] **** (2018, Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza, Cédric Kahn) – Movie Review

Writer-director Pawel Pawlikowski’s beautiful, passionate 2018 romantic drama Cold War [Zimna wojna] is a doomed love story about two mismatched people, set in Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris against the background of the Fifties Cold War. It is a […]

Dec, 10

Never Let Me Go ** (1953, Clark Gable, Gene Tierney, Richard Haydn, Belita, Bernard Miles, Kenneth More, Karel Stepanek, Theodore Bikel) – Classic Movie Review 7789

Director Delmer Daves’s 1953 Never Let Me Go is a humdrum romantic adventure from Clark Gable, the erstwhile king of Hollywood, playing Philip Sutherland, a US newsman stationed in Moscow who falls for and marries Russian […]

Nov, 15

A Bullet for Joey *** (1955, Edward G Robinson, George Raft, Audrey Totter, George Dolenz, Peter Hansen, Peter van Eyck, Kaaren Verne) – Classic Movie Review 7719

‘THE SCREEN’S TOP TOUGH GUYS MEET FACE TO FACE!’ Director Lewis Allen’s 1955 Cold War film noir spy crime thriller A Bullet for Joey stars Edward G Robinson and George Raft, two legendary stars a […]

Oct, 29

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