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Honeymoon in Vegas *** (1992, James Caan, Nicolas Cage, Sarah Jessica Parker) – Classic Movie Review 8955
Writer-director Andrew Bergman’s 1992 romance comedy thriller Honeymoon in Vegas stars Nicolas Cage as New York investigator Jack Singer, who promises his dying mom (Anne Bancroft in a cameo) that he will never marry and […]
The Shanghai Gesture *** (1941, Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Victor Mature, Ona Munson) – Classic Movie Review 8924
Director Josef von Sternberg’s stylish directorial flourishes are much in evidence in his exotic 1941 black and white film noir-style crime drama The Shanghai Gesture, a tastefully cleaned-up version of John Colson’s once shocking play, […]
And Hope to Die [La course du lièvre à travers les champs] *** (1972, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Robert Ryan, Lea Massari, Aldo Ray, Tisa Farrow) – Classic Movie Review 8892
Director René Clément’s fair, often compelling, but muddled 1972 international thriller And Hope to Die [La course du lièvre à travers les champs] stars Jean-Louis Trintignant as Antoine Cardot aka Froggy, a French crook on […]
The Champ *** (1931, Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich, Roscoe Ates) – Classic Movie Review 8640
Wallace Beery won a Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar (shared with Fredric March in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) and Frances Marion won for Best Original Story for director King Vidor’s 1931 tearjerker […]
Uptown Saturday Night ***(1974, Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Harry Belafonte) – Classic Movie Review 7905
The then highly likeable star pair of Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby hit a profitable vein of Seventies-style broad comedy with the 1974 Uptown Saturday Night, a zany farcical tale of two innocents, Steve Jackson […]
The Big Town *** (1987, Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, Tommy Lee Jones ) – Classic Movie Review 7312
The handsome young Matt Dillon is all cool Eighties style that proves perfect for his role as the cocky Fifties small town boy J C Cullen, who comes Chicago to work as a professional gambler and […]
Jinxed! ** (1982, Bette Midler, Ken Wahl, Rip Torn) – Classic Movie Review 6786
Bette Midler’s 1982 black comedy Jinxed! was certainly jinxed. It was supposed to be a classy hit what with director Don Siegel, cinematographer Vlimos Zsigmond and writers Frank D Gilroy and David Newman – all […]