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Starcrash *** (1978, Caroline Munro, Christopher Plummer, Marjoe Gortner, David Hasselhoff, Joe Spinell, Robert Tessier, Nadia Cassini ) – Classic Movie Review 10,891
Though filmed in Rome, and directed and co-written by Italian filmmaker Luigi Cozzi [aka Lewis Coates], the entertaining space opera film Starcrash (1978) is an American production produced independently by brothers Nat and Patrick Wachsburger. […]
Mayerling **** (1936, Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Marthe Régnier) – Classic Movie Review 8478
Director Anatole Litvak’s original 1936 black and white movie Mayerling is the memorable French hit film based on Claude Anet’s novel of the fateful love of the 19th-century married Hapsburg heir, Archduke Rudolf, for the […]
Désirée ** (1954, Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Merle Oberon, Michael Rennie, Cameron Mitchell, Elizabeth Sellars) – Classic Movie Review 7144
Director Henry Koster’s 1954 Désirée is an undesirable, wan, pointlessly fictionalised version of the Napoleon story, with a miscast Marlon Brando looking forlorn and unhappy as young Napoleon Bonaparte. There are not many sparks either from […]
Flash Gordon **** (1980, Sam J Jones, Melody Anderson, Max von Sydow, Timothy Dalton, Brian Blessed, Peter Wyngarde, Topol, Ornella Muti) – Classic Movie Review 6,583
Mike Hodges’s 1980 British Sci-Fi action adventure film Flash Gordon is a lovely and lavish movie version of the Thirties Alex Raymond comic strip. Sam J Jones stars as Flash, with Ornella Muti as Princess […]
The Fall of the Roman Empire **** (1964, Alec Guinness, Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, James Mason, Christopher Plummer, Omar Sharif, Mel Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, John Ireland) – Classic Movie Review 6384
Director Anthony Mann’s vast 1964 Roman epic The Fall of the Roman Empire is, overall, hugely impressive, though it is a hit and miss affair in the casting department, but the hits include James Mason […]
Roman Scandals **** (1933, Eddie Cantor, Gloria Stuart, Ruth Etting, Edward Arnold, Alan Mowbray, Verree Teasdale, Jane Darwell, David Manners) – Classic Movie Review 5137
Director Frank Tuttle’s 1933 movie stars Eddie Cantor as an endearing, kind-hearted young simpleton called Eddie, who falls asleep and dreams he goes back to ancient Rome. This jolly vintage musical is raised high with Cantor’s […]
The Last Emperor ***** (1987, John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O’Toole) – Classic Movie Review 2619
Co-writer/director Bernardo Bertolucci’s magnificent 1987 movie The Last Emperor about the last imperial ruler of China was a much-deserved world-wide triumph for him and his brave and ambitious British producer, Jeremy Thomas. The Last Emperor won nine […]