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Posts Tagged "Paul Newman"

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The Hustler ***** (1961, Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie, George C Scott) – Classic Movie Review 870

Paul Newman is outstanding as small-time pool hustler ‘Fast’ Eddie Felson, in the 1961 classic film The Hustler, and Piper Laurie is memorable as Newman’s troubled, alcoholic lost girl, Sarah Packard. In co-writer/director Robert Rossen’s […]

Mar, 06

Cool Hand Luke ***** (1967, Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Strother Martin, Richard Davalos, Jo Van Fleet, J D Cannon, Lou Antonio, Robert Drivas, Clifton James, Strother Martin, Dennis Hopper, Wayne Rogers, Anthony Zerbe, Ralph Waite) – Classic Movie Review 862

Paul Newman enjoys one of his most memorable and iconic cool roles as Cool Hand Luke in director Stuart Rosenberg’s tough, haunting and richly enjoyable 1967 prison movie classic. Gutsy prisoner Luke Jackson works on […]

Mar, 02

Hombre **** (1967, Paul Newman, Fredric March, Richard Boone, Diane Cilento, Barbara Rush, Frank Silvera, Martin Balsam, Cameron Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 860

Director Martin Ritt’s 1967 Western is a tense, intelligent, suspenseful movie, only maybe a little bit too obviously message-strewn for its own good. It reunites the star, the director, the writers and cinematographer of the 1963 triumph […]

Mar, 02

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ***** (1969, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross) – Classic Movie Review 793

Director George Roy Hill’s 1969’s gem is a stupendous comedy Western that put him together with Paul Newman and Robert Redford and director Hill four years before they made The Sting together. Butch Cassidy and the […]

Feb, 02

The Sting ***** (1973, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw) – Classic Movie Review 790

Director George Roy Hill’s 1973 gem showcases 70s superstars Paul Newman and Robert Redford at their most charismatic in this delicious caper movie set in Thirties Chicago. It is a worthy follow-up to their first hit […]

Feb, 02

Road to Perdition ***** (2002, Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Tyler Hoechlin, Daniel Craig, Ciarân Hinds, Stanley Tucci, Dylan Baker, Jude Law) – Classic Movie Review 234

A haunting, unmissable gangster movie with a dazzling surface, director Sam Mendes’s 2002 follow-up to his American Beauty has got class written all over every frame of it. It is superbly crafted with beautiful performances, particularly […]

Sep, 09

Hud ***** (1963, Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal, Brandon De Wilde) – Classic Movie Review 230

Paul Newman is stupendous in a chilling performance as Hud, a callous cowboy with a barbed-wire soul. Martin Ritt’s 1963 film portrait of a 60s Texan farming family is an elegiac modern Western and a […]

Sep, 07

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