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Raid on Rommel * (1971, Richard Burton, John Colicos, Clinton Greyn, Wolfgang Preiss) – Classic Movie Review 6446

‘LIBYA – 1943. After almost three years of bitter desert warfare, Rommel’s brilliant use of his Panzer divisions has driven the British into a position of desperation. The fate of the Mediterranean hangs in the […]

Dec, 21

When Eight Bells Toll ** (1971, Anthony Hopkins, Jack Hawkins, Robert Morley, Corin Redgrave, Nathalie Delon, Ferdy Mayne, Derek Bond) – Classic Movie Review 6256

Director Etienne Perier’s 1971 British adventure is a goodish Boy’s Own action thriller, taken from an Alistair MacLean novel, in which an excellent cast, boats and gold bullion figure against a backdrop of eye-catching Scottish […]

Nov, 15

Beachhead **** (1954, Tony Curtis, Frank Lovejoy, Mary Murphy, Eduard Franz) – Classic Movie Review 5491

Director Stuart Heisler’s gritty, extremely decent little 1954 wartime action thriller unusually has a speaking cast of only seven, with just one woman – Tony Curtis, Frank Lovejoy, Mary Murphy, Eduard Franz, Skip Homeier, John […]

May, 24

Beneath the Planet of the Apes *** (1970, James Franciscus, Charlton Heston, Linda Harrison, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans) – Classic Movie Review 5484

Director Ted Post delivers the welcome 1970 second movie in the original five-film Planet of the Apes saga, with more fascinating monkey business just a notch down from the first film, 1968’s Planet of the […]

May, 19

Dark Star **** (1974, Brian Narelle, Andrew Dre Pahich, Cal Kuniholm, Dan O’Bannon) – Classic Movie Review 5367

Co-writer/ co-producer/ scorer/ director John Carpenter’s low-budget ($60,000) 1974 feature film début is a rollicking, anarchic trip into space that merrily debunks a host of other space movies, notably 2001: A Space Odyssey, and paves […]

Apr, 29

The Long and the Short and the Tall [Jungle Fighters] *** (1961, Richard Todd, Richard Harris, Laurence Harvey) – Classic Movie Review 5153

‘Raw emotions bared!’ Director Leslie Norman’s 1961 British film version of Willis Hall’s classic 1959 stage play The Long and the Short and the Tall stars Richard Todd, Richard Harris, Laurence Harvey, David McCallum and Ronald Fraser. […]

Mar, 14

Prometheus **** (2012, Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender, Idris Elba, Guy Pearce, Logan Marshall-Green, Sean Harris, Rafe Spall) – Classic Movie Review 4,813

Ridley Scott’s tense and scary Alien universe prequel film Prometheus, in which a team journey to a distant moon and find a structure with a monolithic statue of a humanoid head and stone cylinders of […]

Dec, 29

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