Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "political intrigue"

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Under Fire ****½ (1983, Nick Nolte, Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy, Ed Harris) – Classic Movie Review 10,303

Director Roger Spottiswoode’s sizzling 1983 Under Fire is an absolutely thrilling, first-rate political action thriller about the Nicaragua conflict in 1979, with Gene Hackman and Nick Nolte at their best as newsmen Alex Grazier and […]

Sep, 14

Saraband for Dead Lovers **** (1948, Stewart Granger, Joan Greenwood, Françoise Rosay, Flora Robson, Peter Bull, Megs Jenkins) – Classic Movie Review 5058

Directors Basil Dearden and Michael Relph’s attractive 1948 British oddity Saraband for Dead Lovers stars Joan Greenwood as sad young Sophie Dorothea of Celle, the arranged-marriage wife of the effete Prince George Louis of Hanover, […]

Feb, 25

The Looking Glass War **½ (1970, Christopher Jones, Ralph Richardson, Anthony Hopkins, Paul Rogers, Pia Degermark, Susan George, Anna Massey) – Classic Movie Review 4849

Writer-director Frank R Pierson’s 1970 British thriller The Looking Glass War is a passable espionage entertainment, but it is hardly an ideal version of John le Carré’s thoughtful 1965 spy novel about the British intelligence […]

Jan, 05

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