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Posts Tagged "communist"
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The Majestic *** (2001, Jim Carrey, Martin Landau, Bob Balaban, Matt Damon, Jeffrey DeMunn, Hal Holbrook, Laurie Holden) – Classic Movie Review 4913
Director Frank Darabont’s honourable 2001 drama stars Jim Carrey as Peter Appleton, an ambitious movie screenwriter in early 1950s America, who falls victim to the communist witch-hunts. He crashes his car, loses his memory and […]
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 […]
One, Two, Three **** (1961, James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Pamela Tiffin, Arlene Francis, Howard St John) – Classic Movie Review 3666
At 61, James Cagney is supremely energetic and wickedly funny in his last film before he retired for 20 years till his surprise comeback in Ragtime (1981). In Billy Wilder’s 1961 movie classic Cold War […]
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, […]
A King in New York **** (1957, Charles Chaplin, Maxine Audley, Jerry Desmonde, Dawn Addams, Oliver Johnston, Sidney James) – Classic Movie Review 2550
Troubled writer-director-star Charles Chaplin satirises America in the witch-hunt era of the Fifties and his personal history in a story seen through the eyes of a disillusioned foreign ruler in New York. Chaplin plays the […]
Funeral in Berlin **** (1966, Michael Caine, Oskar Homolka, Paul Hubschmid, Eva Renzi) – Classic Movie Review 2419
Michael Caine returns for his second spy thriller in the Sixties Harry Palmer film trilogy, with Bond director Guy Hamilton at the helm, in 1966’s Funeral in Berlin. Michael Caine returns for his second spy […]
Another Country **** (1984, Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Michael Jenn, Robert Addie, Anna Massey, Rupert Wainwright, Betsy Brantley, Cary Elwes) – Classic Movie Review 2.148
Playwright/ screenwriter Julian Mitchell’s extremely fine, provocative, award-winning 1981 London West End theatre hit gay stage play Another Country happily is filmed retaining its exciting young stars Rupert Everett and Colin Firth from the London run. […]