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Five Graves to Cairo **** (1943, Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Erich von Stroheim) – Classic Movie Review 2663

Director Billy Wilder’s dynamic 1943 World War Two wartime suspense thriller is set in June 1942 in the North African desert where a small, isolated Saharan hotel inn named the Empress of Britain is owned by […]

Jul, 04

Duel **** (1971, Dennis Weaver) – Classic Movie Review 2608

A masterpiece of fear and tension, Steven Spielberg’s third TV film is so powerful that it won a cinema release in 1971 and gave him his break in the movies. It aired as a hit […]

Jun, 15

High Plains Drifter **** (1973, Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill) – Classic Movie Review 2530

Director-star Clint Eastwood’s surreal and brooding 1973 revenge Western High Plains Drifter is rich and strange, and proves one of his finest films. It is his first Western as director and second film as director […]

May, 27

It Came from Outer Space **** (1953, Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake) – Classic Movie Review 2,443

Jack Arnold’s 1953 black-and-white sci-fi film It Came from Outer Space is notable as the first in 3D from Universal. Barbara Rush won a Golden Globe as most promising female newcomer. Director Jack Arnold’s 1953 […]

May, 02

The Ten Commandments ****½ (1956, Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Edward G Robinson, Anne Baxter, Nina Foch, Cedric Hardwicke, Yvonne De Carlo, Debra Paget, John Derek) – Classic Movie Review 2247

Director Cecil B DeMille remakes his 1923 silent film The Ten Commandments in 1956 with the help of Charlton Heston as Moses, Technicolor, VistaVision and Oscar-winning special effects. The Ten Commandments also stars Yul Brynner as […]

Mar, 09

The Hill **** (1965, Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Ian Hendry, Alfred Lynch, Roy Kinnear, Michael Redgrave, Ossie Davis, Jack Watson) – Classic Movie Review 2114

Director Sidney Lumet’s distinguished, brutal 1965 military drama The Hill is a showcase for tour de force acting from Sean Connery as Joe Roberts, one of the five new prisoners being punished in a British […]

Jan, 25

U Turn ** (1997, Sean Penn, Jennifer Lopez, Nick Nolte) – Classic Movie Review 2083

Director Oliver Stone goes for overkill again with another gorefest in this 1997 pounding mix of his 1994 Natural Born Killers and film noir that gives your senses a hammering. Sean Penn stars as a […]

Jan, 17

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