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Lolly-Madonna XXX [The Lolly-Madonna War] ** (1973, Rod Steiger, Robert Ryan, Jeff Bridges, Scott Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 10,440
There’s a gory battle for land between fighting families the Feathers and the Gutshalls deep in rural Tennessee, in the 1973 action crime film Lolly-Madonna XXX. Rod Steiger and Robert Ryan come off best as […]
Never Take Sweets from a Stranger *** (1960, Gwen Watford, Patrick Allen, Felix Aylmer) – Classic Movie Review 6143
Director Cyril Frankel’s 1960 British mystery horror drama is taken from Roger Emerson Garis’s play The Pony Cart. Gwen Watford and Patrick Allen star as English married couple Sally and Peter Carter, who start a […]
Rocket Gibraltar **** (1988, Burt Lancaster, Suzy Amis, Patricia Clarkson, Bill Pullman, Kevin Spacey, Macaulay Culkin) – Classic Movie Review 4833
Director Daniel Petrie’s 1988 drama stars Burt Lancaster as widowed family patriarch Levi Rockwell, who is having his 77th birthday. His caring but uncomprehending adult kids and his open, generous-spirited grand-children arrive to celebrate. When […]
Broken Lance **** (1954, Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Earl Holliman, Hugh O’Brian) – Classic Movie Review 3396
Director Edward Dmytryk’s 1954 complex, consistently rewarding adult Western film Broken Lance is basically an unofficial reworking of Edward G Robinson’s House of Strangers (1947) with a heavy debt to King Lear, with Shakespeare’s daughters […]
How to Train Your Dragon 2 *** (2014, voices of Jay Baruchel, Cate Blanchett) – Movie Review
Kids and their attendant grown-ups will be satisfied with writer-director Dean DeBlois’s robust, pleasant and amusing yet unnecessary sequel to the DreamWorks 2010 animation hit, based on Cressida Cowell‘s book series. It’s altogether totally fine […]
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ***** (1958, Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor, Burl Ives, Judith Anderson) – Classic Movie Review 174
Elizabeth Taylor stars as the sexy, taunting hussy Maggie the Cat, plotting to re-arouse the limp sexual interest of her sulky, alcoholic, gay husband, Brick Pollitt (Paul Newman). Brick is reunited with his father Big […]
The Godfather ***** (1972, Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, John Cazale, Talia Shire, Diane Keaton, Abe Vigoda, Morgana King) – Classic Movie Review 2
Although reluctant to take on the project, Francis Ford Coppola hit the jackpot with his 1972 film version of Mario Puzo’s saga about Mafia ‘family’ loyalties in the New York underworld, enjoying tremendous public and […]
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