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Stalag 17 ***** (1953, William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger, Robert Strauss, Harvey Lembeck, Richard Erdman, Peter Graves, Neville Brand, Sig Ruman) – Classic Movie Review 2531

Director Billy Wilder delivers a typically darkly comic adaptation of Donald Bevan’s and Edmund Trzcinski’s Broadway stage play about American airmen’s life in a POW camp in Germany in 1944 towards the end of World […]

May, 28

The Mark of Zorro ***** (1940, Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard, Eugene Pallette) – Classic Movie Review 2314

Director Rouben Mamoulian’s 1940 adventure classic remakes the 1920 Douglas Fairbanks Sr silent classic and stars an ideal Tyrone Power as Zorro. Though thought of as a light-weight star, Power is thrilling as Don Diego, […]

Mar, 27

The Three Musketeers ** (1993, Chris O’Donnell, Tim Curry, Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Oliver Platt, Rebecca De Mornay, Hugh O’Conor) – Classic Movie Review 2309

Director Stephen Herek’s 1993 Austrian-American action-adventure film The Three Musketeers from Walt Disney Pictures and Caravan Pictures is a proficient but moderate version of the Alexandre Dumas classic, with a brisk but modest screenplay by David Loughery. The […]

Mar, 24

Criss Cross **** (1949, Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea) – Classic Movie Review 1579

Director Robert Siodmak’s intriguing tangled web of a 1949 thriller stars Burt Lancaster as Steve Thompson, who returns to his home town of Los Angeles and finds his lovely ex-wife Anna Dundee (Yvonne De Carlo) […]

Aug, 23

Mad City *** (1997, John Travolta, Dustin Hoffman, Alan Alda, Bill Nunn, Mia Kirshner, Robert Prosky, Blythe Danner, William Atherton, Ted Levine) – Classic Movie Review 1559

In director Costa-Gavras’s 1997 thriller, John Travolta plays Sam Baily, a disgruntled natural history museum security guard, who holds visitors, including a school trip group, hostage in an attempt to win back his job when he […]

Aug, 17

Sleepers **** (1997, Robert De Niro, Kevin Bacon, Brad Pitt, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Patric, Brad Renfro, Ron Eldard, Billy Crudup) – Classic Movie Review 695

In the nostalgic movie glow of the 1960s, four normally nice, basically decent New York kids torment a hot-dog man and a passer-by is killed with his cascading trolley in a thoughtless prank. They are incarcerated […]

Jan, 17

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