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The Looking Glass War **½ (1970, Christopher Jones, Ralph Richardson, Anthony Hopkins, Paul Rogers, Pia Degermark, Susan George, Anna Massey) – Classic Movie Review 4849
Writer-director Frank R Pierson’s 1970 British thriller The Looking Glass War is a passable espionage entertainment, but it is hardly an ideal version of John le Carré’s thoughtful 1965 spy novel about the British intelligence […]
Reds **** (1981, Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann, Jack Nicholson, Maureen Stapleton, Paul Sorvino, Gene Hackman) – Classic Movie Review 4799
Director Warren Beatty won the Academy Award for Best Director for his fascinating, sometimes riveting 1981 film about the life of communist American -radical journalist John Reed from 1913 through his involvement in the 1917 […]
Sleeping Car to Trieste *** (1948, Jean Kent, Albert Lieven, Alan Wheatley, Paul Dupuis, David Tomlinson, Rona Anderson, Derrick de Marney, Grégoire Aslan, Bonar Colleano, Zena Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 4,022
Jean Kent stars in the quirky and amusing 1948 British thriller film Sleeping Car to Trieste about spies, art thieves and blackmailers aboard a trans-Europe express train. Director John Paddy Carstairs’s 1948 British thriller Sleeping […]
Little Red Monkey ***½ (1955, Richard Conte, Rona Anderson, Russell Napier) – Classic Movie Review 3,890
‘THE IMPOSSIBLE CRIME. THRILLER OF THRILLERS’ Ken Hughes’s 1955 British black and white crime film Little Red Monkey is a complex, very nifty, and extremely enjoyable little Cold War espionage thriller. Richard Conte and Rona […]
Despite the Falling Snow *** (2016, Rebecca Ferguson, Sam Reid, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Charles Dance, Anthony Head) – Movie Review
Rebecca Ferguson, Sam Reid, Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Charles Dance are all first rate in writer-director Shamim Sarif’s smart-looking, involving and intriguing old-style Cold War romantic spy thriller. The excellent Rebecca Ferguson stars as Fifties Moscow communist spy Katya, […]
Night People *** (1954, Gregory Peck, Broderick Crawford, Anita Björk, Rita Gam, Walter Abel, Buddy Ebsen) – Classic Movie Review 3498
Producer-writer-director Nunnally Johnson’s nimble and nifty 1954 Cold War suspense thriller Night People stars Gregory Peck, Broderick Crawford, Anita Björk, Rita Gam, Walter Abel and Buddy Ebsen, who greatly help to enliven the story about the […]
Hell and High Water **** (1954, Richard Widmark, Bella Darvi, Victor Francen, Cameron Mitchell, Gene Evans, David Wayne) – Classic Movie Review 3457
20th Century Fox’s complex, nail-biting, labyrinthine Cold War thriller about an American submarine’s mission up to the Arctic to put a spoke in the wheels of a Chinese conspiracy to start a war against America […]