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The Lady in Red *** (1979, Pamela Sue Martin, Robert Conrad, Louise Fletcher) – Classic Movie Review 10,930

‘Her father said she was a tramp. Her customers said she was fantastic.’ Director Lewis Teague’s 1979 film The Lady in Red [Guns, Sin and Bathtub Gin] is a good, cultish low-budget ($400,000) action crime […]

Feb, 17

The Spider’s Stratagem [Strategia del Ragno] **** (1970, Giulio Brogi, Alida Valli, Tino Scotti, Pippo Campanini) – Classic Movie Review 10,794

Writer-director Bernardo Bertolucci’s stylish, complex and clever 1970 Italian political film The Spider’s Stratagem [Strategia del Ragno] is based on the story Theme of the Traitor and the Hero (Tema del traidor y del héroe) […]

Jan, 15

Night Sun [Il Sole anche di Notte] **** (1990, Julian Sands, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Nastassja Kinski, Rüdiger Vogler, Patricia Millardet, Massimo Bonetti) – Classic Movie Review 10,463

Writers-directors Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani’s 1990 Italian art cinema drama Night Sun [Il Sole anche di Notte] stars Julian Sands, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Nastassja Kinski. [Spoiler alert] In 18th-century Italy, young nobleman Baron Sergio […]

Oct, 26

La Chienne ***** (1931, Michel Simon, Janie Marèse, Georges Flamant) – Classic Movie Review 10,145

Bank clerk Maurice Legrand (Michel Simon), married to ghastly Adèle (Magdeleine Bérubet), murders his faithless prostitute-mistress Lulu (Janie Marèse), then pins the blame on her pimp Dede (Georges Flamant) whom she loves, in director Jean […]

Aug, 08

Where’s Jack? *** (1969, Tommy Steele, Stanley Baker, Alan Badel, Fiona Lewis, Alan Badel, Dudley Foster, Sue Lloyd) – Classic Movie Review 9951

Director James Clavell’s 1969 film Where’s Jack? provides a serious role for Tommy Steele (fresh from success in Half a Sixpence and Finian’s Rainbow) as Jack Sheppard, the celebrated notorious 18th-century British highwayman wanted by the […]

Jun, 23

Topaze **** (1933, John Barrymore, Myrna Loy, Reginald Mason) – Classic Movie Review 9518

Director Harry d’Abbadie D’Arrast’s 1933 comedy remake Topaze stars John Barrymore and Myrna Loy, who head up a fine American version of the Marcel Pagnol story about a meek French teacher, Professor Auguste Topaze (Barrymore). […]

Mar, 16

Action Jackson ** (1988, Carl Weathers, Craig T Nelson, Vanity, Sharon Stone) – Classic Movie Review 9200

Director Craig R Baxley’s 1988 hard-hitting action movie Action Jackson stars Carl Weathers as the off-beat do-gooder Action Jackson, a tough Detroit cop leaving a trail of devastation behind him as he rampages after superbad […]

Dec, 29

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