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Puppet on a Chain ** (1971, Sven-Bertil Taube, Barbara Parkins, Alexander Knox, Patrick Allen, Vladek Sheybal) – Classic Movie Review 8379
Director Geoffrey Reeve’s 1971 British thriller Puppet on a Chain is the always-popular macho action movie, based on the novel by Alistair MacLean, in which spies root out drug runners in Amsterdam, giving an obvious […]
Stakeout on Dope Street *** (1958, Yale Wexler, Jonathan Haze, Steven Marlo, Abby Dalton) – Classic Movie Review 8369
The 1958 crime drama Stakeout on Dope Street is an interesting, still relevant fable for the late-Fifties times from the Roger Corman pool of Fifties youthful talent. Indeed the film was financed by the ever-canny […]
Who’ll Stop the Rain [Dog Soldiers] *** (1978, Nick Nolte, Tuesday Weld, Michael Moriarty, Anthony Zerbe, Richard Masur, Ray Sharkey) – Classic Movie Review 6636
Director Karel Reisz obscures his gripping Seventies story about heroin-smuggling among Vietnam veterans by putting his energies into conjuring up atmosphere and character, making this a depressing study of troubled characters in a downbeat drama […]
The Organization ** (1971, Sidney Poitier, Barbara McNair, Sheree North, Gerald S O’Loughlin, Raul Julia, Allen Garfield, Ron O’Neal) – Classic Movie Review 6480
Director Don Medford’s 1971 routine second sequel thriller brings Sidney Poitier back for the third and last time as San Francisco Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs, the upright cop from 1967’s In the Heat of the Night. […]
The Night of the Following Day *** (1969, Marlon Brando, Richard Boone, Rita Moreno, Pamela Franklin) – Classic Movie Review 5871
Co-writer/ director Hubert Cornfield’s intelligent, character-driven 1969 crime movie is brisk, complex and involving. Unfairly, it ignominiously went out as the lesser half of a double bill. Although it is an American film, it is shot in Technicolor in […]
T2 Trainspotting **** (2017, Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle, Kelly Macdonald, Shirley Henderson, Anjela Nedyalkova) – Movie Review
Two decades on from Trainspotting (1996), the 46-year-old Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns from a new life in Amsterdam to the one place he can call home, Edinburgh, where he is reunited with Spud (Ewen Bremner), […]
The Man with the Golden Arm **** (1958, Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker, Kim Novak, Arnold Stang, Darren McGavin, Robert Strauss, Doro Merande) – Classic Movie Review 4722
Producer-director Otto Preminger’s then controversial 1958 noirish drama stars Frank Sinatra, who was Oscar-nominated Sinatra for his forceful and persuasive performance as drug addict Frankie Machine, the weak-willed Chicago card dealing gambler who tries to […]