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Fail Safe ***** (1964, Henry Fonda, Larry Hagman, Walter Matthau, Dan O’Herlihy, Frank Overton, Edward Binns, Fritz Weaver, Sorrell Booke, Dom DeLuise) – Classic Movie Review 1379
Director Sidney Lumet’s brilliant 1964 nuclear war thriller is sweatily tense throughout and often heart-stopping. Despite its ultra-gripping, important story, dedicated, vital performances, uber-tense mood and deadly message, it was sadly and unfairly wiped out […]
Outbreak **** (1995, Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Donald Sutherland, Morgan Freeman) Classic Film Review 1185
Director Wolfgang Petersen’s sizzling 1995 disaster scenario thriller stars Dustin Hoffman as an American Army doctor who set out to set out to find a cure for a deadly airborne virus that’s arrived in the […]
Paths of Glory ***** (1957, Kirk Douglas, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready) – Classic Movie Review 1102
In 1957, director Stanley Kubrick confirmed his then growing reputation as one of the most promising film-makers of the era with this harsh, bleak and brilliant, fact-based World War One anti-war film about a French army mutiny […]
The Dirty Dozen ***** (1967, Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Robert Ryan, Jim Brown, George Kennedy, John Cassavetes, Donald Sutherland) – Classic Movie Review 813
Robert Aldrich’s 1967 World War Two action movie The Dirty Dozen is a fondly remembered, often screened blockbuster smash-hit. It’s not a subtle film but it is a brilliantly exciting one, with an iconic cast. […]
Ill Met By Moonlight [Night Ambush] **** (1957, Dirk Bogarde, Marius Goring, David Oxley) – Classic Movie Review 776
Michael Powell’s 1957 film Ill Met By Moonlight [Night Ambush] with his long-term writing-producing-directing partner Emeric Pressburger is a stirring, old-style war adventure, telling a rattling good yarn, set in Crete in 1944. In the […]
The Last Castle **** (2001, Robert Redford, James Gandolfini, Mark Ruffalo) – Classic Movie Review 752
Robert Redford enjoys his tailor-made part as a jailed three-star general, who rallies 1,000 inmates to rise up against their evil governor, in director Rod Lurie’s involving and finally exciting 2001 prison movie thriller. As […]
The General ***** (1926, Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender) – Classic Movie Review 731
Buster Keaton stars in this 1926 unchallenged silent comic masterpiece, set in the American Civil War and based on a real incident as told in the story The Great Locomotive Chase by William Pittinger. A hugely-admired masterpiece as […]