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Patton ***** (1970, George C Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates, Karl Michael Vogler, Stephen Young) – Classic Movie Review 3515

Franklin J Schaffner’s realistic epic 1970 war biopic stars the great George Scott, who won the 1971 Best Actor Oscar for his lusty portrait of the gung-ho World War Two wartime American renegade general and famous […]

Apr, 02

The Flim-Flam Man [One Born Every Minute] ***½ (1967, George C Scott, Michael Sarrazin, Sue Lyon, Harry Morgan, Jack Albertson, Alice Ghostley, Albert Salmi, Slim Pickens) – Classic Movie Review 3,187

The unlikely pair of George C Scott and Michael Sarrazin team up to star in the folksy 1967 US small-town comedy film The Flim-Flam Man as an ageing conman and a young army deserter who […]

Dec, 27

The Murders in the Rue Morgue *** (1986, George C Scott, Rebecca De Mornay, Ian McShane, Neil Dickson, Val Kilmer) – Classic Movie Review 2683

The fifth film of Edgar Allan Poe’s gory horror story is once again set in 19th century Paris. It is tautly and imaginatively handled by director Jeannot Szwarc in 1986. And it is greatly enlivened […]

Jul, 09

The Exorcist III ***½ (1990, George C Scott, Ed Flanders, Brad Dourif, Nicol Williamson, Jason Miller) – Classic Movie Review 2524

Oscar-winning writer William Peter Blatty’s belated 1990 sequel (as both writer and director this time) to his 1973 blockbuster The Exorcist is advertised as ‘from the creator of the original Exorcist’. That’s to distance itself […]

May, 26

Taps *** (1981, Timothy Hutton, Sean Penn, George C Scott, Tom Cruise) – Classic Movie Review 1510

‘We have a home here. We think it’s something worth defending.’ – Cadet Major Brian Moreland. Director Harold Becker’s 1981 movie is one of the key youth-oriented films of the 80s. It’s Timothy Hutton’s follow-up […]

Aug, 02

Malice *** (1993, Bill Pullman, Nicole Kidman, Alec Baldwin) – Classic Movie Review 1509

Director Harold Becker’s 1993 thriller is a compulsively preposterous, bizarre and artificial suspense mystery movie, in which Bill Pullman and Nicole Kidman star as New England college dean Andy and his lovely younger wife Tracy, Andy’s former pupil who […]

Aug, 02

Gloria *** (1999, Sharon Stone, Jeremy Northam, George C Scott, Jean-Luke Figueroa, Cathy Moriarty, Bonnie Bedelia, Mike Starr) – Classic Film Review 1,202

Sharon Stone is a powerful and attractive star presence as a gangster’s moll on the run, in Sidney Lumet’s rickety 1999 Mob thriller remake Gloria. Director Sidney Lumet’s efficient and tolerable 1999 remake of John […]

May, 17

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