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- Man Detained *** (1961, Bernard Archard, Elvi Hale, Paul Stassino, Michael Coles) – Classic Movie Review 13,327
- Hand in Hand *** (1960, Loretta Parry, Philip Needs, Sybil Thorndike, John Gregson, Finlay Currie, Derek Sydney, Miriam Karlin, Kathleen Byron) – Classic Movie Review 13,327
- Attempt to Kill ** (1961, Tony Wright, Derek Farr, Richard Pearson, Freda Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 13,326
- A Hitch in Time *** (1978, Patrick Troughton, Michael McVey, Pheona McLellan, Jeff Rawle, Sorcha Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 13,325
- Man at the Carlton Tower *** (1961, Maxine Audley, Lee Montague, Alfred Burke, Allan Cuthbertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,324
- Beyond the Door [Chi Sei?] [The Devil Within Her] * (1974, Juliet Mills, Richard Johnson, Gabriele Lavia, Elizabeth Turner, David Colin Jr) – Classic Movie Review 13,323
- Beyond the Door II [Schock] *** (1979, Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, David Colin Jr, Ivan Rassimov) – Classic Movie Review 13,322
- Blood Red ** (1989, Eric Roberts, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Hopper, Burt Young) – Classic Movie Review 13,321
- The Fourth Square *** (1961, Conrad Phillips, Natasha Parry, Delphi Lawrence, Miriam Karlin, Jacqueline Jones, Anthony Newlands, Basil Dignam, Harold Kasket) – Classic Movie Review 13,316
- Black Memory *** (1947, Michael Atkinson, Michael Medwin, Myra O’Connell, Jane Arden, Frank Hawkins) – Classic Movie Review 13,320
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Heartbreak Ridge **** (1986, Clint Eastwood, Marsha Mason, Mario Van Peebles, Everett McGill) – Classic Movie Review 3289
Clint Eastwood directs and stars in this stalwart, gung-ho 1986 action drama about the US Marines’ 1983 invasion of Grenada, written by Vietnam veteran James Carabatsos. His tough, bantering, foul-mouthed screenplay rings the changes on […]
The General’s Daughter *** (1999, John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, James Cromwell, Timothy Hutton, James Woods) – Classic Movie Review 2965
John Travolta and Madeleine Stowe star as warrant officer CID detectives who are brought in to a Florida army base to investigate after retiring base commander Lieutenant General ‘Fighting Joe’ Campbell (James Cromwell)’s military daughter […]
Executive Decision *** (1996, Kurt Russell, Halle Berry, Steven Seagal, John Leguiziamo, Oliver Platt, Joe Morton, David Suchet, J T Walsh) – Classic Movie Review 2932
Director Stuart Baird’s hokey but often nail-biting 1996 edge-of-seat action thriller stars Kurt Russell, who is on his best form as a reluctant action hero. He is forced to board and tackle the Arab terrorists […]
La Grande Illusion [Grand Illusion] ***** (1937, Jean Gabin, Erich von Stroheim, Pierre Fresnay, Marcel Dalio, Dita Parlo, Julien Carette, Gaston Modot, Jean Dasté) – Classic Movie Review 2790
Co-writer/director Jean Renoir’s 1937 humanist and pacifist masterwork about two French officers being captured World War One is one of the great treasures of French and indeed world cinema. It is based on Renoir’s own […]
Fort Apache ***** (1948, John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple, Pedro Armendariz, Ward Bond) – Classic Movie Review 2349
The opening 1948 film in director John Ford’s deservedly renowned and celebrated US Cavalry trilogy with star John Wayne also stars Henry Fonda as a bitter, arrogant, tough lieutenant colonel (based on General Custer) who […]
Starman ****½ (1984, Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith, Richard Jaeckel) – Classic Movie Review 2043
Director John Carpenter delivers a stupendous, electrifying 1984 adult sci-fi fairy tale that’s tense, touching and thrilling throughout. Bruce A Evans, Raynold Gideon and Dean Reisner’s screenplay follows the story of the titular alien Starman, […]
Taps *** (1981, Timothy Hutton, Sean Penn, George C Scott, Tom Cruise) – Classic Movie Review 1510
‘We have a home here. We think it’s something worth defending.’ – Cadet Major Brian Moreland. Director Harold Becker’s 1981 movie is one of the key youth-oriented films of the 80s. It’s Timothy Hutton’s follow-up […]