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The Double Man ** (1967, Yul Brynner, Britt Ekland, Clive Revill, Anton Diffring, Moira Lister, Lloyd Nolan) – Classic Movie Review 10,182

Director Franklin J Schaffner’s minor 1967 British spy thriller The Double Man stars Yul Brynner in two roles (high-ranking CIA widower Dan Slater and his lookalike enemy agent, Kalmar). A large part of the action […]

Aug, 15

The Girl in the Kremlin (1957, Lex Barker, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Jeffrey Stone, Maurice Manson, William Schallert) – Classic Movie Review 10,124

Director Russell Birdwell’s 1957 Cold War film noir The Girl in the Kremlin tells a memorably outlandish stinker of a mystery tale about private detective and former OSS agent Steve Anderson (Lex Barker) finding that […]

Aug, 03

On the Double *** (1961, Danny Kaye, Dana Wynter, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Diana Dors, Margaret Rutherford) – Classic Movie Review 7643

Co-writer/ producer/ director Melville Shavelson’s 1961 On the Double provides a witty title for a witty Danny Kaye comedy in which he plays Private First Class Ernie Williams, an American GI who specialises in impersonations […]

Oct, 07

Kagemusha ***** (1980, Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Jinpachi Nezu) – Classic Movie Review 6426

The great Japanese director Akira Kurosawa is on commanding form in this thrilling 1980 film from his older age (he was 70) with a story about a 16th-century nobleman who saves the life of a […]

Dec, 18

Enemy ***½ (2013, Jake Gyllenhaal, Mélanie Laurent, Sarah Gadon) – Movie Review

Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Adam Bell, a rather sombre Toronto area history college professor stuck in a routine with his comfortably dull and repetitive job and quite boring live-in girlfriend called Mary (Mélanie Laurent). But, one night, […]

Dec, 19

The Double ** (2013, Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasikowska, James Fox, Sally Hawkins, Paddy Considine, Wallace Shawn, Cathy Moriarty, Chris O’Dowd, Rade Serbedzija, Noah Taylor) – Film Review

Jesse Eisenberg stars as timid Simon, a likeable loser enduring an isolated existence in an indifferent world. Simple Simon is an office drone totally overlooked at work, scorned by his mother and ignored by the young woman of […]

Apr, 04

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