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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 […]

Jun, 29

The Return of Frank James **** (1940, Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Jackie Cooper) – Classic Film Review 1064

Director Fritz Lang’s 1940 follow-up to 1939’s huge hit Jesse James is at least the equal of a marvellous original. Once more, the film was universally considered historically inaccurate but again was a commercial success. […]

Apr, 06

Jesse James **** (1939, Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly, Randolph Scott, Brian Donlevy) – Classic Movie Review 1063

Director Henry King’s 1939 Western is marvellous vintage action entertainment with a provocative central idea of the outlaws being dubiously reinvented as heroes, just like in Robin Hood or Bonnie and Clyde. That’s how the […]

Apr, 06

The Wrong Man ***** (1956, Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle) – Classic Movie Review 387

Roman Catholic to its very soul, Alfred Hitchcock’s 1956 true-life near docudrama is a devastating portrait of a guiltless victim and his martyrdom. It’s the story of a tormented, Christ-like figure. This time, it’s not […]

Nov, 10

Once Upon a Time in the West [C’era una volta il West] ***** (1968, Claudia Cardinale, Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Jason Robards) – Classic Movie Review 140

Sergio Leone’s epic masterwork Once Upon a Time in the West [C’era una volta il West] (1968) is one of the cinema’s greatest Western films and most revered of Spaghetti Westerns. Complexly plotted, thrilling, vast […]

Aug, 09

Twelve Angry Men ***** (1957, Henry Fonda, Lee J Cobb, Martin Balsam) – Classic Movie Review 10

In Sidney Lumet’s electrifying 1957 film classic courtroom drama, Henry Fonda gives a true, trusty, stalwart performance as Juror Number 8 in a murder trial. He’s a symbolically white-suited architect, who starts as the lone […]

Jul, 01

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