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- Incident at Phantom Hill **½ (1966, Robert Fuller, Dan Duryea, Jocelyn Lane, Claude Akins, Noah Beery Jr) – Classic Movie Review 13,269
- Naked Fury ** (1959, Reed de Rouen, Kenneth Cope, Leigh Madison) – Classic Movie Review 13,268
- Bones and Names [Knochen und Namen] *** (2023, Fabian Stumm in his feature directorial debut, starring himself along with Knut Berger, Marie-Lou Sellem, Susie Meyer) – Classic Movie Review 13,267
- The Guilty *** (2021, Jake Gyllenhaal) – Classic Movie Review 13,266
- Five Golden Dragons * (1967, Robert Cummings, Christopher Lee, Rupert Davies, Margaret Lee, Klaus Kinski, Brian Donlevy, Dan Duryea, George Raft) – Classic Movie Review 13,265
- The Inspector General *** (1949, Danny Kaye, Walter Slezak, Barbara Bates, Elsa Lanchester, Gene Lockhart) – Classic Movie Review 13,264
- Yossi & Jagger ***½ (2002, Ohad Knoller, Yehuda Levi, Asi Cohen, Aya Koren) – Classic Movie Review 13,263
- Call Her Savage ** (1932, Clara Bow, Gilbert Roland, Monroe Owsley) – Classic Movie Review 13,262
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Posts Tagged "remake"
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King Kong *** (1976, Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin, Jessica Lange) – Classic Movie Review 411
There’s a huge monster, high adventure, tongue-in-cheek humour and even a dash of sex in director John Guillermin’s busy and conscientious but patchy and rather uninspired 1976 remake of the 1933 all-time great fantasy adventure […]
The Fly ***** (1986, Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz) – Classic Movie Review 194
‘I don’t think The Fly is mainstream,’ claims David Cronenberg. ‘A mainstream movie is one that isn’t going to rattle too many cages. No horror film is truly mainstream.’ Point taken, but nevertheless, when he […]
Cape Fear **** (1991, Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Juliette Lewis, Illeana Douglas, Joe Don Baker) – Classic Movie Review 177
Martin Scorsese boldly remakes J Lee Thompson’s much-admired 1962 thriller masterwork Cape Fear, based on John D MacDonald’s novel The Executioners. Scorsese has the right actor in mind in his regular star Robert De Niro, […]
Ocean’s Eleven **** (2001, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Julia Roberts, Bernie Mac, Andy Garcia, Carl Reiner, Elliott Gould, Don Cheadle) – Classic Movie Review 148
George Clooney inherits Frank Sinatra’s old character of Danny Ocean in this lighthearted, zippy and entertaining 2001 remake of the 1960 comedy thriller about an 11-man gang’s plot to pull off heists (now worth $160million) […]
A Perfect Murder **** (1998, Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow, Viggo Mortensen, David Suchet) – Classic Movie Review 109
Director Andrew Davis’s 1998 sleek, seductive and supremely skilful psychological suspense thriller is an extremely imaginative reworking of Alfred Hitchcock’s 3D 1954 movie Dial M for Murder, itself based on Frederick Knott’s hit stage play. […]