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Under Suspicion **½ (2000, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Monica Bellucci, Thomas Jane) – Classic Movie Review 3,702

The intriguing 2000 thriller film Under Suspicion stars Gene Hackman as a smug lawyer suspected of a girl’s murder, who becomes involved in mind games with the investigating police officer (Morgan Freeman). Director Stephen Hopkins’s […]

May, 12

Hoosiers [Best Shot] **** (1986, Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper) – Classic Movie Review 3485

Gene Hackman stars as a crusty burnt-out coach who trains Fifties Indiana high-school boys for basketball success, in the poignant, complex 1986 sports drama classic film Hoosiers [Best Shot]. Director David Anspaugh’s poignant and complex […]

Mar, 20

Scarecrow **** (1973, Gene Hackman, Al Pacino, Dorothy Tristan, Eileen Brennan, Ann Wedgeworth) – Classic Movie Review 3,484

Gene Hackman and Al Pacino light sparks as drifters who hitchhike across the US in the 1973 drama film gem Scarecrow. Time has been kind to this almost forgotten gem of 50 years ago, a box-office […]

Mar, 19

The Conversation ***** (1974, Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest, Robert Duvall, Cindy Williams, Teri Garr, Harrison Ford) – Classic Movie Review 3,189

Francis Coppola’s tense and suspenseful 1974 thriller film The Conversation won the Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or. It’s a tour-de-force for director Coppola and star Gene Hackman as a paranoid surveillance expert.  Francis Ford Coppola’s […]

Dec, 28

Prime Cut **** (1972, Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Sissy Spacek) – Classic Movie Review 2,964

The brilliant, controversial 1972 American action crime thriller film Prime Cut stars Lee Marvin as a Chicago mob enforcer sent to Kansas to collect a debt from a meatpacker boss (Gene Hackman) who grinds his enemies […]

Oct, 07

No Way Out **** (1987, Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Sean Young, Will Paton) – Classic Movie Review 2735

All the thriller genre’s classic ingredients — lies, secrets, passion, sex and murder — are all brought to the boil in director Roger Donaldson’s truly thrilling 1987 neo film noir distantly based on Charles Laughton’s […]

Jul, 24

Unforgiven ***** (1992, Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris) – Classic Movie Review 2,397

Clint Eastwood’s dark, violent and complex 1992 Western film Unforgiven triumphed as the winner of four Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor for Gene Hackman and Best Film Editing. Star-producer-director Clint Eastwood’s […]

Apr, 16

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