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Posts Tagged "Graham Greene"

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The Honorary Consul [Beyond the Limit] **** (1983, Michael Caine, Richard Gere, Bob Hoskins) – Classic Movie Review 8952

Director John Mackenzie’s 1983 British drama The Honorary Consul [Beyond the Limit] is based on the novel by Graham Greene and stars Michael Caine at his best and most convincing as the drunken honorary British […]

Sep, 30

Travels with My Aunt ** (1972, Maggie Smith, Alex McCowen, Lou Gossett Jr, Robert Stephens, Cindy Williams, Robert Flemyng) – Classic Movie Review 4039

Director George Cukor’s 1972 comedy drama stars Maggie Smith as Dotty Aunt Augusta Bertram, who takes her prim nephew Henry Pulling (Alec McCowen), a buttoned-up English bank manager, on an eccentric trip to Graham Greeneland, with […]

Jul, 18

Dances with Wolves ***** (1990, Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene) – Classic Movie Review 2056

Co-producer-director-star Kevin Costner comes up with a truly majestic epic Western in 1990 and wins seven Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. Grown men have been known to weep at this […]

Jan, 08

The Fallen Idol ***** (1948, Ralph Richardson, Bobby Henrey, Michèle Morgan, Sonia Dresdel) – Classic Movie Review 1835

Producer-director Carol Reed’s 1948 British classic is one of his most glittering achievements, made between Odd Man Out and The Third Man. Reed eagerly grabs hold of Graham Greene’s script, about a butler working in the French Embassy […]

Nov, 12

Our Man in Havana **** (1959, Alec Guinness, Noël Coward, Maureen O’Hara, Burl Ives) – Classic Movie Review 1808

Director Carol Reed’s 1959 thriller finds the ideal fit in Alec Guinness, who is perfectly cast as Jim Wormold, the meek vacuum cleaner salesman in Havana, in this delightful film of one of Graham Greene’s […]

Nov, 05

Die Hard 3: Die Hard with a Vengeance *** (1995, Bruce Willis, Jeremy Irons, Samuel L Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 1681

This time British Oscar winner Jeremy Irons is the guest star villain as the German terrorist and mad bomber who terrorises New York while tormenting Bruce Willis’s boozed-out cop John McClane with a teasing series of false […]

Sep, 16

Grey Owl **** (1999, Pierce Brosnan, Annie Galipeau, Stewart Bick, Vlasta Vrana, Graham Greene, Renée Asherson, Stephanie Cole) – Classic Movie Review 1446

Pierce Brosnan is first-rate as a Native American imposter in director Richard Attenborough’s good-hearted, unfairly overlooked 1999 adventure and true story biopic. Writer William Nicholson’s screenplay makes a really good, fascinating thing out of the unusual story […]

Jul, 18

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