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Posts Tagged "Irwin Allen"

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Lost in Space *** (1998, Gary Oldman, William Hurt, Matt LeBlanc, Heather Graham, Mimi Rogers) – Classic Movie Review 3700

The fondly remembered Irwin Allen 1965-68 family sci-fi TV series lives again in director Stephen Hopkins’s daft but likeable mega-budget ($90million) 1998 big-screen re-creation. A cast of actors rather than stars take the parts of the […]

May, 12

The Swarm * (1978, Michael Caine, Richard Widmark, Katharine Ross, Henry Fonda, Richard Chamberlain, Olivia de Havilland, Fred MacMurray) – Classic Movie Review 3099

The 1978 horror thriller The Swarm is a particularly silly disaster movie from the king of genre, producer-director Irwin Allen, that is a hoot to watch if you are in the right frame of mind. […]

Nov, 26

The Poseidon Adventure **** (1972 Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Shelley Winters) – Classic Film Review 1209

Director Ronald Neame’s famous 1972 definitive disaster movie launched the Seventies vogue for the genre and still provides a good measure of entertainment. It’s cast strongly with an all-star cast who include five Oscar winners: […]

May, 12

The Towering Inferno ***** (1974, Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, William Holden, Fred Astaire, Richard Chamberlain, Robert Wagner, Faye Dunaway) – Classic Movie Review 1207

A blaze breaks out in the Glass Tower, a state-of-the-art San Francisco high-rise building during the glitzy opening ceremony attended by a host of city celebrities, in director John Guillermin‘s terrifyingly nail-biting 1974 skyscraper-on-fire movie The […]

May, 12

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