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Curse of the Pink Panther * (1983, David Niven, Robert Wagner, Herbert Lom, Joanna Lumley, Capucine, Ted Wass) – Classic Movie Review 8872

Director Blake Edwards’s 1983 comedy Curse of the Pink Panther is an embarrassing and bizarre attempt to squeeze another film out of a series whose beloved and irreplaceable star, Peter Sellers, was long dead. Herbert […]

Aug, 27

Trail of the Pink Panther * (1982, Peter Sellers, David Niven, Herbert Lom, Richard Mulligan, Joanna Lumley, Capucine, Robert Loggia, Burt Kwouk) – Classic Movie Review 8870

Trail of the Pink Panther (1982) follows Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978), which is the final Pink Panther film for Peter Sellers, as Trail of the Pink Panther was made posthumously using outtakes and deleted […]

Aug, 27

A Fine Pair [Ruba al prossimo tuo] ** (1968, Rock Hudson, Claudia Cardinale, Tomas Milian) – Classic Movie Review 8819

Director Francesco Maselli’s below-par 1968 Swinging Sixties Italian comedy thriller A Fine Pair [Ruba al prossimo tuo] stars Rock Hudson and Claudia Cardinale, reunited from Blindfold (1966), who make a fine pair as a married […]

Aug, 11

Stuber * (2019, Dave Bautista, Kumail Nanjiani, Iko Uwais, Mira Sorvino) – Movie Review

The contrived crime action comedy Stuber is loud, brash, fast paced and dynamic, but dismayingly disagreeable and unappealing, violent and vulgar. The action is violent and the comedy is vulgar. An Uber driver comedy is, marginally, […]

Jul, 20

The Great Mouse Detective *** (1986, voices of Vincent Price, Barrie Ingham, Val Bettin) – Classic Movie Review 8180

Walt Disney’s fun 1986 family animation adventure The Great Mouse Detective is a rodent reworking of the Sherlock Holmes stories, inspired by the works of Arthur Conan Doyle, who remains uncredited. The main characters are […]

Feb, 28

Gunn *** (1967, Craig Stevens, Laura Devon, Edward Asner) – Classic Movie Review 8133

Co-writer/ director Blake Edwards’s satisfying 1967 thriller Gunn is the tough cinema feature movie of his TV series Peter Gunn (1958-61), with Craig Stevens repeating his smooth laconic Cary Grant-style performance as the suave, stylishly […]

Feb, 15

Q & A **** (1990, Nick Nolte, Timothy Hutton, Armand Assante) – Classic Movie Review 8092

Nick Nolte gives a spellbinding performance as a raging New York cop called Mike Brennan under investigation by nice young assistant district attorney Al Reilly (Timothy Hutton) for killing a Hispanic drug dealer in writer-director […]

Feb, 04

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