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Oedipus the King **** (1968, Christopher Plummer, Lilli Palmer, Orson Welles, Richard Johnson, Cyril Cusack, Roger Livesey, Donald Sutherland) – Classic Movie Review 3274

That great actor Christopher Plummer is stupendous as Oedipus in co-writer/director Philip Saville’s brave and imaginative attempt to film the classic Sophocles Greek tragic play. And Orson Welles, Lilli Palmer and Richard Johnson are marvellous also as the doomsayer […]

Jan, 16

And Then There Were None * (1974, Oliver Reed, Richard Attenborough, Elke Sommer, Herbert Lom, Gert Fröbe, Stéphane Audran, Charles Aznavour, Adolfo Celi) – Classic Movie Review 3263

Oliver Reed stars in the 1974 mystery thriller film And Then There Were None, a strongly cast remake of Agatha Christie’s ingenious 1939 classic novel, the world’s best-selling mystery with more than 100 million sales. […]

Jan, 13

A Safe Place *** (1971, Tuesday Weld, Orson Welles, Jack Nicholson) – Classic Movie Review 2880

Writer-director Henry Jaglom’s 1971 drama stars Tuesday Weld in an affecting performance as a strange girlish young woman named Noah, a disturbed, free spirited flower child living alone in New York City. She is locked into […]

Sep, 05

Moby Dick *** (1956, Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn, Orson Welles, Harry Andrews, James Robertson Justice, Bernard Miles, Mervyn Johns) – Classic Movie Review 2752

Co-writer/director John Huston’s intelligent and entertaining but only half-successful 1956 film version of the legendary Herman Melville classic novel stars Gregory Peck as one-legged ship’s Captain Ahab who obsessively pursues his adversary, the great whale […]

Jul, 29

The Tartars [I Tartari] *** (1961, Orson Welles, Victor Mature, Liana Orfei) – Classic Movie Review 2668

Director Richard Thorpe’s Italian/Yugoslavian-made 1961 epic The Tartars [I Tartari] stars Orson Welles as Burundai, leader of the nasty Tartars, who battle the apparently less nasty Vikings, led by Oleg, played by Victor Mature. This […]

Jul, 06

Jane Eyre **** (1943, Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O’Brien, Peggy Ann Garner, Henry Daniell, Agnes Moorehead) – Classic Movie Review 2670

Director Robert Stevenson’s 1943 movie is an impressively powerful and moody American version of the Charlotte Brontë classic about the Victorian orphan who becomes a governess in a strange Yorkshire household at Thornfield Hallruled over by […]

Jul, 05

Prince of Foxes **** (1949, Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Wanda Hendrix, Everett Sloane, Felix Aylmer, Katina Paxinou) – Classic Movie Review 2652

Both looking good, Tyrone Power and Orson Welles lock swords in director Henry King’s beautifully made 1949 swashbuckler, set in Renaissance Italy in 1500. Power stars as the dashing hero Andrea Orsini, supposedly an artistic […]

Jun, 27

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