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Papillon **** (1973, Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory) – Classic Movie Review 2967

Director Franklin J Schaffner’s 1973 prison drama stars a suitably gaunt-looking Steve McQueen as Henri ‘Papillon’ Charrière – the symbolic Butterfly of the story – in this long and expensive version of the best-selling novel by real-life […]

Oct, 08

Man Hunt **** (1941, Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders, John Carradine, Roddy McDowall, Ludwig Stossel, Heather Thatcher) – Classic Movie Review 2807

Fritz Lang’s riveting 1941 wartime thriller Man Hunt finds Walter Pidgeon well cast as an English big game hunter who misses his chance to kill Adolf Hitler. Director Fritz Lang’s riveting 1941 American wartime thriller […]

Aug, 12

La Grande Illusion [Grand Illusion] ***** (1937, Jean Gabin, Erich von Stroheim, Pierre Fresnay, Marcel Dalio, Dita Parlo, Julien Carette, Gaston Modot, Jean Dasté) – Classic Movie Review 2790

Co-writer/director Jean Renoir’s 1937 humanist and pacifist masterwork about two French officers being captured World War One is one of the great treasures of French and indeed world cinema. It is based on Renoir’s own […]

Aug, 08

War of the Colossal Beast ** (1958, Duncan Dean Parkin, Sally Fraser, Roger Pace, Russ Bender, Rico Alaniz) – Classic Movie Review 2760

In 1958 director Bert I Gordon delivers a quite lively black-and-white science fiction sequel to his The Amazing Colossal Man (1957). It continues that movie’s storyline, but it was not marketed as a sequel and features […]

Jul, 31

Titan AE **** (2000, voices of Matt Damon, Bill Pullman, Drew Barrymore, John Leguizamo, Nathan Lane, Tone Loc, Alex D Linz) – Classic Movie Review 2646

Animation king Don (Anastasia) Bluth shows his versatility by heading for space this time in 2000 in a highly imaginative, explosively paced, gleamingly dark-looking adventure. Matt Damon provides the voice of the hero Cale, an […]

Jun, 27

Coogan’s Bluff **** (1968, Clint Eastwood, Lee J Cobb, Susan Clark, Tisha Sterling, Don Stroud) – Classic Movie Review 2,572

Don Siegel’s exciting 1968 cop thriller film Coogan’s Bluff stars Clint Eastwood as an Arizona deputy sheriff who travels to New York City to extradite a prisoner (Don Stroud), who escapes and is wanted for […]

Jun, 08

Ted Bundy [Bundy] ** (2002, Michael Reilly Burke, Boti Bliss, Julianna McCarthy) – Classic Movie Review 2571

Co-writer/director Matthew Bright’s chilling 2002 docu-drama biopic of the prolific and notorious serial sex killer whose horrific crimes shocked 1970s America is exploitative and graphically nasty. Michael Reilly Burke stars as Ted Bundy and Boti […]

Jun, 08

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