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Paramount Pictures’ jolly silent classic 1926 pirate adventure yarn Old Ironsides from director James Cruze focuses on the Americans on a fighting ship seeing off the wicked Barbary buccaneers in the seas around Tripoli in […]
Director Otto Preminger’s colourfully glossy saga of the young Boston priest called Stephen Fermoyle (Tom Tryon), who battles racists at home and Nazis abroad, and then becomes a cardinal, is a big and bumpy experience, […]
Director J Lee Thompson’s 1962 historical romantic adventure Taras Bulba stars Tony Curtis and Yul Brynner, who gets the title role of Cossack chieftain Taras Bulba, who helps the Poles defeat the Turks in the […]
Director Christian Rivers’s 2018 teen fantasy action adventure Mortal Engines is very shakily based on the young adult novel of the same name by Philip Reeves. The story is cheesy and unconvincing on screen, lacking […]
Director King Vidor’s commanding World War One epic 1925 drama The Big Parade, full of startling battle images bringing the conflict to vivid life, is one of the great highspots of silent cinema. The film takes […]
Director Dick Richards’s ambitious, meticulously made 1977 old-style adventure movie March or Die stars Gene Hackman, who takes top billing as troubled American French Foreign Legion veteran Major William Foster in a tale that might have […]
Producer-director John Sturges’s good-looking, robust 1965 Western stars Burt Lancaster as Colonel Thaddeus Gearhart, who is assigned to protect a valuable shipment of whisky en route to the thirsty miners in Denver. Native Americans, the US […]