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Posts Tagged "Jewish"
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Lepke *** (1975, Tony Curtis, Anjanette Comer, Michael Callan) – Classic Movie Review 8556
Director Menahem Golan’s 1974 true crime Israeli-American film Lepke is a typically Seventies violent gangster movie in the Thirties Warner Bros-style, with an inspired performance by Tony Curtis, cast against type, giving an interesting account […]
I Love You, Alice B Toklas! *** (1968, Peter Sellers, Jo Van Fleet, Leigh Taylor-Young, Joyce Van Patten, David Arkin, Herb Edelman) – Classic Movie Review 8547
The Jewish middle-class and Sixties hippie cultures are satirised in director Hy Averback’s unevenly amusing 1968 comedy I Love You, Alice B Toklas!, with Peter Sellers on form as a mild West Coast lawyer taking […]
Lenny **** (1974, Dustin Hoffman, Valerie Perrine, Jan Miner) – Classic Movie Review 8441
Dustin Hoffman sizzles in one of his finest performances as controversial, self destructive Jewish club stand up comedian Lenny Bruce in the 1974 biopic Lenny, brilliantly directed by Bob Fosse and shot in dazzling, chic […]
The Bespoke Overcoat ***** (1955, David Kossoff, Alfie Bass, Alf Dean, Alan Tilvern) – Classic Movie Review 7863
The 1955 British Oscar-winning drama The Bespoke Overcoat is an astonishingly fine, beautiful short film from producer-director Jack Clayton, based on a Nikolai Gogol tale called The Cloak, with Alfie Bass and David Kossoff perfectly […]
Homicide **** (1991, Joe Mantegna, William H Macy, Vincent Guastaferro, Ving Rhames, Natalija Nogulich, Rebecca Pidgeon, Ricky Jay, J J Johnston) – Classic Movie Review 7832
The 1991 movie Homicide is a smart, upmarket neo-noir crime thriller from clever writer-director David Mamet, who ignores some of the genre’s thrills at his peril in a look at anti-Semitism and racism. Joe Mantegna […]
The Heartbreak Kid **** (1972, Charles Grodin, Cybill Shepherd, Jeannie Berlin. Eddie Albert) – Classic Movie Review 7220
Director Elaine May’s 1972 The Heartbreak Kid stars Charles Grodin as a New York Jewish kid named Lenny who is honeymooning in Miami with his new bride Lila (Jeannie Berlin) when he gets stung by […]
Victory at Entebbe *** (1976, Helmut Berger, Linda Blair, Kirk Douglas, Helen Hayes, Anthony Hopkins, Burt Lancaster, Elizabeth Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 7060
Victory at Entebbe stars in alphabetical order Helmut Berger, Theodore Bikel, Linda Blair, Kirk Douglas, Richard Dreyfuss, Stefan Gierasch, David Groh, Julius Harris (as the Ugandan dictator General Idi Amin), Helen Hayes, Anthony Hopkins (as Israeli Prime […]