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His Majesty O’Keefe ** (1954, Burt Lancaster, Joan Rice, André Morell) – Classic Movie Review 5384

‘Adventure Beyond The Fabulous! Two Years In The Making!’ Director Byron Haskin’s 1954 adventure movie stars Burt Lancaster as an American 19th-century adventurer-sailor, sea captain David Dion O’Keefe, who journeys to the South Seas, where he […]

May, 02

Bullet in the Head [Die Xue jie tou] **** (1990, Tony Leung, Waise Lee, Jacky Cheung) – Classic Movie Review 5318

Tony Leung, Waise Lee and Jacky Cheung star as a trio from the Hong Kong slums who are forced to flee to Vietnam after a run-in with a vicious gangster. With the war raging round […]

Apr, 18

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing *** (1955, William Holden, Jennifer Jones, Torin Thatcher, Isobel Elsom, Virginia Gregg, Murray Matheson, Keye Luke) – Classic Movie Review 4567

Director Henry King’s 1955 movie is just the very kind of film they don’t make any more – a plush, lovely looking, well-meaning, impressively crafted escapist movie about a tearful romance between the gorgeous Eurasian […]

Oct, 30

City on Fire [Lung foo fong wan] **** (1987, Chow Yun-Fat, Danny Lee, Yueh Sun) – Classic Movie Review 4286

Allegedly the inspiration for Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs (1992), director Ringo Lam’s top-notch 1987 Hong Kong violent revenge cops ‘n’ robbers thriller City on Fire [Lung foo fong wan] has no trouble standing up on its […]

Sep, 03

China Seas **** (1935, Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Hattie McDaniel, Wallace Beery, Rosalind Russell, Robert Benchley, C Aubrey Smith, Akim Tamiroff) – Classic Movie Review 3688

MGM Studios assembles a top-notch cast for director Tay Garnett’s great 1935 adventure yarn of piracy and romance on the high seas. Aboard ship Hong Kong to Singapore are dynamic, hard-drinking captain Alan Gaskell (Clark Gable), his […]

May, 10

The Terror of the Tongs *** (1961, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Monlaur, Geoffrey Toone) – Classic Movie Review 3300

NOW YOU CAN SEE SPINE-TINGLING TONG TERROR! Director Anthony Bushell’s 1961 British thriller stars Geoffrey Toone as British sea captain Jackson Sale, a brave merchant seaman who attempts to discover the murderers of his daughter and […]

Jan, 30

A Countess from Hong Kong **** (1967, Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren, Charles Chaplin, Sydney Chaplin, Tippi Hedren, Patrick Cargill, Margaret Rutherford) – Classic Movie Review 2551

Marlon Brando stars in A Countess from Hong Kong as the rich American diplomat Ogden Mears who spends his last night in Hong Kong with Russian Countess Natascha (Sophia Loren), who follows him on board his […]

Jun, 02

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