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Juggernaut **** (1974, Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, David Hemmings, Anthony Hopkins Shirley Knight, Ian Holm, Roy Kinnear, Freddie Jones, Clifton James) – Classic Movie Review 9929
Director Richard Lester’s ultra-tense, impressively efficient, and thoroughly enjoyable 1974 Seventies action adventure Juggernaut stars Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, David Hemmings, Anthony Hopkins Shirley Knight, Ian Holm, Roy Kinnear, Freddie Jones, and Clifton James. Sharif […]
Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man [La tragedia di un uomo ridicolo] **** (1981, Ugo Tognazzi, Anouk Aimée, Laura Morante) – Classic Movie Review 9406
There is a fine mix of the personal and the political in writer-director Bernardo Bertolucci’s distinguished, carefully studied inquiry into the use of terror by and against the state, and sharply relevant comment on the […]
North Sea Hijack [ffolkes] *** (1980, Roger Moore, James Mason, Anthony Perkins, Michael Parks, David Hedison, Jack Watson, George Baker, Faith Brook, David Wood) – Classic Movie Review 8787
Director Andrew V McLaglen’s 1980 North Sea Hijack [ffolkes] stars Roger Moore, who leads the comic-book capers as Ffolkes, an oddball freelance frogman-commando with ice-cool nerve and style (he loves cats, ignores women and does […]
Ruthless People **** (1986, Bette Midler, Danny DeVito, Judge Reinhold) – Classic Movie Review 8232
Directors Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker’s 1986 Ruthless People is a hugely entertaining black comedy starring Danny DeVito as Sam Stone, a horrible hubby scheming to bump off his strident wife Barbara (Bette […]
Ransom! **** (1956, Glenn Ford, Donna Reed, Leslie Nielsen, Juano Hernandez, Robert Keith) – Classic Movie Review 8225
The tense 1956 film noir crime thriller Ransom! is an impressive showcase for Glenn Ford, who dominates it with his convincing performance as a nervy but determined dad whose son is kidnapped for ransom. Despite […]
O Henry’s Full House **** (1952, Charles Laughton, David Wayne, Marilyn Monroe, Dale Robertson, Richard Widmark, Anne Baxter, Jean Peters, Gregory Ratoff, Fred Allen, Oscar Levant, Jeanne Crain, Farley Granger) – Classic Movie Review 7343
‘A dozen top stars – five famed directors – bring you the best stories of O. Henry!’ The 20th Century Fox studio’s compendium anthology film of five of O Henry’s most celebrated stories from his New […]
The Black Windmill *** (1974, Michael Caine, Donald Pleasence, Delphine Seyrig, Janet Suzman, Joseph O’Conor, John Vernon, Joss Ackland, Denis Quilley, Clive Revill) – Classic Movie Review 6784
Michael Caine is typecast as Major John Tarrant, a British secret agent and fall guy for the real traitor in director Don Siegel’s creaky, uneven, run-of-the-mill 1974 British spy thriller that entertains lightly but does […]