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Producer/director Robert Aldrich’s 1965 film The Flight of the Phoenix finds him on safe ground with a highly enjoyable and satisfying, character-driven disaster-survival movie, in which an aircraft is downed when a sudden sandstorm shuts […]
Robert Aldrich’s 1967 World War Two action movie The Dirty Dozen is a fondly remembered, often screened blockbuster smash-hit. It’s not a subtle film but it is a brilliantly exciting one, with an iconic cast. […]
Director John Sturges’s brilliant 1955 Western thriller is his finest celluloid moment, bringing simmering, atmospheric suspense scaldingly to the boil. Spencer Tracy relishes one of his finest roles as one-armed army veteran John J Macreedy, who arrives […]
It’s the near-distant future. Bookish hero Vincent Freeman (Ethan Hawke) overcomes his physical frailties like his weak heart and poor eyesight by taking on the characteristics of a foreign superman Jerome Morrow (Jude Law) who’s […]
Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine and Janet Leigh are all in their glorious prime in this exciting, top-quality period adventure hokum from 1958. Douglas (Einar) and Curtis (Eric) fight it out with vicious abandon […]
Director Fred Zinnemann’s film of James Jones’s best-selling novel about the appallingly harsh rigours of army life and deep sexual frustrations in 1941 Hawaii caused a worldwide sensation in 1953. It went on to win eight […]