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Posts Tagged "Orson Welles"
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The Trial ****½ (1962, Anthony Perkins, Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider, Orson Welles, Elsa Martinelli) – Classic Movie Review 2141
Writer-director Orson Welles’s 1962 movie version of Franz Kafka’s novel about a man caught in a Kafkaesque bureaucratic red-tape legal nightmare is compelling, engrossing and spectacularly imaginative. Welles said with his usual modesty: ‘The Trial […]
Treasure Island *** (1972, Orson Welles, Kim Burfield, Lionel Stander, Walter Slezak, Rik Battaglia) – Classic Movie Review 2061
Orson Welles makes the expected 10-course banquet out of playing the pirate captain Long John Silver, revelling in revealing the murderous rogue’s dark side, in director John Hough’s generally entertaining adventure film. This adaptation was released in several […]
The Stranger **** (1946, Edward G Robinson, Orson Welles, Loretta Young) – Classic Movie Review 1680
Director/star Orson Welles’s third movie after Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons is a less ambitious genre piece, but his underrated 1946 paranoia film noir thriller The Stranger is a darkly glowing little gem. An […]
Trent’s Last Case ***½ (1952, Michael Wilding, Margaret Lockwood, Orson Welles, John McCallum) Classic Movie Review 1675
Producer/director Herbert Wilcox’s involving and diverting 1952 British movie version of E C Bentley’s classic 1913 detective novel Trent’s Last Case is made efficiently and briskly, but in basic fashion and without much particular style or […]
Compulsion **** (1959, Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman, Orson Welles, E G Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 1,674
Richard Fleischer’s compulsive 1959 real-life thriller film Compulsion provides an engrossing and distinguished version of the deeply disturbing 1924 Chicago Leopold and Loeb murder case. Director Richard Fleischer’s compulsive 1959 real-life thriller film Compulsion provides […]
The Sailor from Gibraltar *** (1967, Jeanne Moreau, Vanessa Redgrave, Ian Bannen) – Classic Movie Review 1644
Jeanne Moreau stars as nymphomaniac mysterious widow Anna, who wanders the waves in search of her dreamboat sailor she had known many years before. She comes across troubled British couple Alan and his girlfriend Sheila (Ian […]
Casino Royale *** (1967, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Woody Allen, Orson Welles, Ursula Andress, John Huston, William Holden, Deborah Kerr) – Classic Movie Review 839
The original 1967 Casino Royale movie is a huge-scale, vastly costly James Bond spoof, starring David Niven as British secret agent Sir James Bond, who is called out of retirement after the death of M […]