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Posts Tagged "Gene Hackman"
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The Poseidon Adventure **** (1972 Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Shelley Winters) – Classic Film Review 1209
Director Ronald Neame’s famous 1972 definitive disaster movie launched the Seventies vogue for the genre and still provides a good measure of entertainment. It’s cast strongly with an all-star cast who include five Oscar winners: […]
Heist **** (2001, Gene Hackman, Danny DeVito, Sam Rockwell, Rebecca Pidgeon, Delroy Lindo, Ricky Jay, Patti LuPone) – Classic Movie Review 1123
Writer-director David Mamet’s 2001 thriller stars Gene Hackman, who may be 70 here, but he shows he’s still a great action hero as Joe Moore, a crook forced into pulling off one last gold heist […]
The Chamber ** (1996, Gene Hackman, Chris O’Donnell, Faye Dunaway, Robert Prosky, Harve Presnell) – Classic Movie Review 1006
Director James Foley’s 1996 legal thriller is another lacklustre adaptation from a John Grisham novel, saved by Gene Hackman’s impeccable performance as a racist bigoted bomber, Sam Cayhall, whose rookie lawyer grandson Adam Hall (Chris […]
Runaway Jury **** (2003, John Cusack, Rachel Weisz, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman) – Classic Movie Review 902
The 2003 American legal thriller film Runaway Jury stars Gene Hackman as the splendidly slimy jury fixer Rankin Fitch, whose motto is ‘Trials are too important to be left up to juries’. Director Gary Fleder’s […]
Bonnie and Clyde ***** (1967, Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J Pollard, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons, Denver Pyle, Dub Taylor, Gene Wilder) – Classic Movie Review 848
‘They’re young. They’re in love. They rob banks.’ Warren Beatty stars as small-time bank robber Clyde Barrow who joins up with Faye Dunaway as bored small-town waitress Bonnie Parker to embark on a series of […]
Crimson Tide **** (1995, Gene Hackman, Denzel Washington, Viggo Mortensen, James Gandolfini, Danny Nucci, Lillo Brancato, George Dzundza) – Classic Movie Review 755
Director Tony Scott’s sizzling 1995 action thriller Crimson Tide is the world’s first post-Glasnost movie. It takes us, via Scott’s own zap-up-the-Russkies pic Top Gun (1986), right back to the Cuba missile crisis films of the […]
Enemy of the State **** (1998, Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Lisa Bonet, Regina King, Tom Sizemore, Gabriel Byrne, Ian Hart, Jake Busey, Scott Caan, Jason Lee) – Classic Movie Review 751
Will Smith and Gene Hackman are ideally cast and give outstanding star performances in director Tony Scott’s 1998 pounding, edge-of-seat conspiracy thriller that really is the business. Smith stars as lawyer Robert Dean, who finds he’s in […]