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Posts Tagged "Harry Dean Stanton"

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The Mighty **** (1998, Kieran Culkin, Elden Henson, Sharon Stone) – Classic Movie Review 1799

Director Peter Chelsom’s 1998 drama is a captivatingly imaginative and original heartbreaker, based on the Rodman Philbrick novel Freak the Mighty. In the story, a 13-year-old misfit called Maxwell Cullen (Elden Henson) finds his life […]

Nov, 03

Paris, Texas ***** (1984, Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell) – Classic Movie Review 1770

Director Wim Wenders’s 1984 drama is a dazzling cult classic, with all concerned working on inspired form. The sizzling screenplay by playwright Sam Shepard and Texan writer L M Kit Carson (who did the adaptation) vibrantly captures […]

Oct, 22

Escape from New York **** (1981, Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Donald Pleasence, Ernest Borgnine, Isaac Hayes, Season Hubley, Harry Dean Stanton, Adrienne Barbeau) – Classic Movie Review 1177

Director/ co-writer John Carpenter’s tough and exciting futuristic action thriller, made in 1981 but set in 1997, sees the US President forced to land in Manhattan, now a prison ghetto full of baddies who take him […]

May, 03

Cool Hand Luke ***** (1967, Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Strother Martin, Richard Davalos, Jo Van Fleet, J D Cannon, Lou Antonio, Robert Drivas, Clifton James, Strother Martin, Dennis Hopper, Wayne Rogers, Anthony Zerbe, Ralph Waite) – Classic Movie Review 862

Paul Newman enjoys one of his most memorable and iconic cool roles as Cool Hand Luke in director Stuart Rosenberg’s tough, haunting and richly enjoyable 1967 prison movie classic. Gutsy prisoner Luke Jackson works on […]

Mar, 02

Farewell, My Lovely **** (1975, Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Harry Dean Stanton, Anthony Zerbe, Joe Spinell, Sylvia Miles) – Classic Movie Review 740

Director Dick Richards just caught Robert Mitchum, aged 58, while he was still in his world-weary prime in 1975 to play classic private eye Philip Marlowe in this enjoyable, taut and atmospheric remake of Raymond […]

Jan, 25

Anger Management ***½ (2003, Jack Nicholson, Adam Sandler, Marisa Tomei) – Classic Movie Review 294

Jack Nicholson and Adam Sandler form a fine comedy team in this 2003 comedy propelled by an excellent central idea, two brilliantly judged comic performances and some hilarious gags and extremely funny scenes. With an […]

Oct, 18

The Green Mile ***** (1999, Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan, David Morse) – Classic Movie Review 277

Tom Hanks is ideally cast as Paul Edgecomb, the head guard supervising prisoners on Death Row at the Deep South Coal Mountain Correctional Facility in the 1930s. When John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan), a gentle […]

Oct, 07

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