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The Taking of Pelham 123 ****½ (1974, Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, Hector Elizondo, Earl Hindman, Jerry Stiller, Tony Roberts, James Broderick, Kenneth McMillan) – Classic Movie Review 4,007
It has been remade twice, but the original super-charged 1974 action crime thriller The Taking of Pelham 123 is the real-deal business. Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam and Hector Elizondo are irreplaceable. It has […]
Thunderbirds *** (2004, Bill Paxton, Sophia Myles, Ron Cook, Ben Kingsley, Anthony Edwards, Brady Corbet, Vanessa Hudgens) – Classic Movie Review 3791
Yes, Thunderbirds are go again in director Jonathan Frakes’s smart-looking 2004 live-action comedy adventure Thunderbirds, based on Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s classic Sixties TV puppet stories of International Rescue. Sadly, all the strings, amateurish production and […]
Money Monster ***½ (2016, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Jack O’Connell) – Movie Review
Money Monster is an undeniably tense, powerful and intelligent media/finance drama, with crisp, clear, dynamic direction by Jodie Foster and three strong, involving performances. George Clooney enjoys himself in a well-fitting, perfectly tailored big star […]
Storm Fear *** (1955, Cornel Wilde, Dan Duryea, Jean Wallace, Lee Grant, Steven Hill) – Classic Movie Review 3,546
Cornel Wilde’s low-budget 1955 black and white film noir thriller Storm Fear is mean and moody. The screenplay is by double Oscar-winning script-writer Horton Foote. Cornel Wilde, Lee Grant and Steven Hill star in the low-budget […]
Attila the Hun * (1954, Anthony Quinn, Sophia Loren, Henri Vidal, Irene Papas, Ettore Manni, Claude Laydu) – Classic Movie Review 3493
Anthony Quinn stars as an unconvincing Hun in director Pietro Francisci’s risibly fumbled 1954 Italian historical epic spectacular focusing on the infamous warrior Attila and his band of the barbarian Huns and called by the […]
The Saint in London *** (1939, George Sanders, Sally Gray, David Burns, Gordon McLeod, Henry Oscar, Athene Seyler, John Abbott) – Classic Movie Review 3222
For the third adventure in RKO’s The Saint series, The Saint in London (1939), super-suave George Sanders stars in his second outing as devil-may-care, debonair Simon Templar, in which he is involved with attractive, enthusiastic English […]
Shanghai Express ***** (1932, Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Warner Oland, Anna May Wong, Eugene Pallette) – Movie Review 2950
Director Josef von Sternberg’s richly enjoyable 1932 romantic adventure again stars his protégée Marlene Dietrich, who appears on her finest form as a notorious ‘lady of the sleeping cars’, Shanghai Lil. The infamously loose woman […]