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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 […]

Feb, 21

The Killer Is Loose ***½ (1956, Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey) – Classic Movie Review 3,368

‘The Story of a Cop Who Used His Wife as Bait for a Killer!’ Budd Boetticher’s underrated 1956 hide-and-seek film noir crime thriller The Killer Is Loose stars Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming and Wendell Corey […]

Feb, 16

Accattone ***** (1961, Franco Citti, Franca Pasut, Silvana Corsini) – Classic Movie Review 3272

Franco Citti came to fame at 26 playing the title role in writer-director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1961 Accattone and gives an extremely convincing and winning performance as Vittorio Cataldi, nicknamed Accattone (an Italian slang term meaning […]

Jan, 16

Sacco & Vanzetti ****½ (1971, Gian Maria Volontè, Riccardo Cucciolla, Cyril Cusack, Geoffrey Keen, Milo O’Shea) – Classic Movie Review 3196

Director Giuliano Montaldo’s splendidly acted, provocative, sterling 1971 biopic of 1920s Italian-born US immigrant anarchists Nicola Sacco (Riccardo Cucciolla) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (Gian Maria Volonté), who are tired on trumped-up charges of robbery and murder […]

Dec, 30

Quartet **** (1981, Alan Bates, Maggie Smith, Isabelle Adjani, Anthony Higgins, Pierre Clémenti, Suzanne Flon, Sheila Gish) – Classic Movie Review 3,179

James Ivory’s beautifully crafted 1981 drama film Quartet stars Alan Bates, Maggie Smith, Isabelle Adjani and Anthony Higgins, who give notable displays of intense acting in this sleek and involving version of Jean Rhys’s autobiographical […]

Dec, 22

The Count of Monte Cristo *** (1975, Richard Chamberlain, Tony Curtis, Trevor Howard, Donald Pleasence, Louis Jourdan) – Classic Movie Review 3004

A dashing Richard Chamberlain swashes a merry buckle as Edmond Dantès, falsely sentenced to incarceration for life in the scary Chateau D’If jail, in screenwriter Sidney Carroll’s conscientious, literate and fairly faithful adaptation of the […]

Oct, 21

The Count of Monte Cristo **** (1934, Robert Donat, Louis Calhern, Sidney Blackmer, Elissa Landi, Raymond Walburn, William Farnum, O P Heggie) – Classic Movie Review 3003

The 1934 adventure movie The Count of Monte Cristo is a thrilling version of the Alexandre Dumas 1844 novel, with Robert Donat in the star role. Screen-writer Philip Dunne said he never read it and […]

Oct, 21

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