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Soldiers Three *** (1951, Stewart Granger, Walter Pidgeon, David Niven, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 11,170

Director Tay Garnett’s 1951 MGM black and white film Soldiers Three is a minor-league, though entertaining Gunga Din-style comedy adventure tale, derived from Rudyard Kipling short stories, with Indian location shots from Kim (1950) helping things […]

May, 05

Caravans ** (1978, Anthony Quinn, Michael Sarrazin, Christopher Lee, Jennifer O’Neill, Joseph Cotten, Barry Sullivan, Jeremy Kemp) – Classic Movie Review 10,172

Director James Fargo’s 1978 Iran/ US co-production action adventure movie Caravans is set in 1948 in a fictional country called Zakharstan and stars Michael Sarrazin as a young American Embassy employee Mark Miller (Michael Sarazyn) tasked […]

Aug, 13

My Teenage Daughter [Teenage Bad Girl] ** (1956, Anna Neagle, Sylvia Syms, Norman Wooland, Kenneth Haigh, Wilfrid Hyde White, Julia Lockwood, Helen Haye, Wanda Ventham) – Classic Movie Review 8629

‘SYLVIA SYMS ‘teen and terrific…in an explosive role!’ ‘She’s a doll !… she’s a dish !… she’s a delinquent!’ ‘Born good with a desire to be bad!’ Sylvia Syms (playing 17 but actually 22 and […]

Jun, 23

The Comedians **** (1967, Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Alec Guinness, Peter Ustinov, James Earl Jones, Roscoe Lee Browne, Cicely Tyson) – Classic Movie Review 5,387

The Comedians (1967) is a distinguished and exciting film of Graham Greene’s great novel set in despotic Papa Doc Duvalier’s turbulent and violent Haiti. It’s an important serious piece of work for the Richard Burton-Elizabeth […]

May, 03

Sirocco ***½ (1951, Humphrey Bogart, Marta Toren, Lee J Cobb, Everett Sloane, Gerald Mohr, Zero Mostel, Nick Dennis, Onslow Stevens) – Classic Movie Review 4,273

Humphrey Bogart stars as amoral black marketeer Harry Smith in the tense and flavourful 1951 film noir Sirocco, a Casablanca-style movie about intrigue and romance in 1920s Syria. Director Curtis Bernhardt’s 1951 film noir movie […]

Aug, 31

The Flame and the Arrow ***** (1950, Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Robert Douglas, Robin Hughes, Norman Lloyd, Nick Cravat) – Classic Movie Review 3472

Italy’s tempestuous history is profitably explored in director Jacques Tourneur’s thrilling 1950 adventure The Flame and the Arrow. It stars an amazingly athletic Burt Lancaster, who leaps from one derring-do moment to another in Warner […]

Mar, 13

Run of the Arrow **** (1957, Rod Steiger, Sarita Montiel, Brian Keith, Ralph Meeker) – Classic Movie Review 3469

Writer-producer-director Samuel Fuller’s 1957 movie is an ambitious, tough, odd Western and it is one of the important works of cult film-maker Fuller, who said: ‘Rod Steiger overdoes it and I had to keep an […]

Mar, 12

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