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Director Taylor Hackford’s 1985 movie White Nights is a daft but entertaining chase-dance drama, a peculiar hybrid of musical and thriller, giving good chances to players difficult to cast. Mikhail Baryshnikov charismatically plays a Russian […]
Director Michael Apted’s 1983 Gorky Park stars William Hurt, Lee Marvin and Brian Dennehy, who are all excellent in this sombre, well-crafted and at least half-decent thriller, scripted from Martin Cruz Smith’s bestseller by controversial […]
Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier, the stars of the 1972 Sleuth, reunited for director Terence Young’s disastrously disappointing 1984 British double agent spy thriller The Jigsaw Man, which was afflicted by money problems and halted […]
Director John Mackenzie’s 1987 thriller The Fourth Protocol is based on a novel by Frederick Forsyth, and stars Michael Caine, Pierce Brosnan, Joanna Cassidy and Ned Beatty. Brosnan and Caine play super-smooth spy Valeri Petrofsky […]
Director Don Siegel’s far-fetched and feeble 1977 spy thriller, based on Walter Wager’s 1975 novel, stars Charles Bronson as a KGB agent called Major Grigori Borzov, who is sent to stop programmed Russian spies from blowing […]
Co-writer/ producer/ director Paul Mazursky’s attractive, amusing and enjoyable 1984 character-driven comedy provides a fine showcase for Robin Williams from the interesting time when he was still establishing himself as a movie star and just […]
Playing it more like the James Bond of Ian Fleming’s novels, Timothy Dalton made his excellent debut as a tough-as-nails, no-nonsense Bond in John Glen’s exciting 1987 007 film. This time round, as well as […]
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