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Old Gringo ***½ (1989, Jane Fonda, Gregory Peck, Jimmy Smits) – Classic Movie Review 6882

Director Luis Puenzo’s 1989 historical romantic adventure drama stars Jane Fonda as Harriet Winslow, an American spinster who takes a job looking after the children of a wealthy family caught up in the revolution in […]

Apr, 03

Elena and Her Men [Elena et les hommes] *** (1956, Ingrid Bergman, Jean Marais, Mel Ferrer, Jean Richard, Magali Noël, Juliette Greco) – Classic Movie Review 6513

Writer-director Renoir’s artificial 1956 film with its broad send-up of Polish countess’s suitors such as French radical party candidate Général François Rollan (Jean Marais), dilettante Le comte Henri de Chevincourt (Mel Ferrer) and wealthy boot magnate Hector […]

Jan, 02

The Satan Bug **** (1965, George Maharis, Richard Basehart, Anne Francis, Dana Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 6252

Richard Basehart stars as the power-mad villain Dr Gregor Hoffman, who acquires a germ warfare lab’s mislaid bottle of a virus (The Satan Bug) that could destroy civilisation, in director John Sturges’s jolly 1965 crime, mystery, […]

Nov, 14

Merrill’s Marauders **** (1962, Jeff Chandler, Ty Hardin, Andrew Duggan, Peter Brown, Will Hutchins) – Classic Movie Review 6246

This first-class 1962 anti-war film from highly esteemed cult director Samuel Fuller is lustily done with lashings of bloody action. It is set in World War Two in Burma, where the 3,000-strong American unit, Merrill’s Marauders, […]

Nov, 13

A Bullet for the General **** [Quién sabe?] (1967, Gian Maria Volontè, Klaus Kinski, Lou Castel, Martine Beswick) – Classic Movie Review 6199

‘When the bullet turns red… the General will be dead!’ Director Damiano Damiani’s riveting 1967 Italian adult Western with typical spaghetti violence was belatedly introduced to Britain in 1990, thanks to the BBC2 TV Moviedrome […]

Nov, 06

Dreyfus [The Dreyfus Case] *** (1931, Cedric Hardwicke, George Merritt, Charles Carson, Sam Livesey, Garry Marsh, Randle Ayrton, George Zucco) – Classic Movie Review 6142

Cedric Hardwicke stars as the real-life French-Jewish officer Captain Alfred Dreyfus, who is accused and convicted of spying in 1890s France, after German staff had forged evidence to convict him, ending up doing life on […]

Oct, 25

The Secret War of Harry Frigg * (1967, Paul Newman, John Williams, Sylva Koscina) – Classic Movie Review 5973

Director Jack Smight’s lame 1967 World War Two-set comedy does not prove a good idea for Paul Newman. In a very rare misfiring performance, he does not impress at all as one-man army Private Harry […]

Aug, 26

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