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The Brothers Karamazov ** (1958, Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, Richard Basehart, William Shatner, Claire Bloom, Lee J Cobb) – Classic Movie Review 11,375

Writer-director Richard Brooks’s 1958 Metrocolor film The Brothers Karamazov turns Fedor Dostoevsky’s 1880 novel into a busy melodrama of a boorish Russian father’s murder, the false imprisonment of one of his three illegitimate sons, boisterous army […]

Jul, 08

Tovarich **** (1937, Claudette Colbert, Charles Boyer, Basil Rathbone) – Classic Movie Review 11,000

Director Anatole Litvak’s 1937 Warner Bros period screwball comedy Tovarich is written by Casey Robinson, based on a play by Jacques Déval and Robert E Sherwood (English version). It stars Claudette Colbert as the Grand […]

Mar, 08

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

Hamlet ***** (1964, Innokenti Smoktunovsky, Mikhail Nazvanov, Elza Radzina) – Classic Movie Review 9602

Director Grigori Kozintsev’s 1964 world cinema masterpiece Hamlet is quite unlike any other version with a very cinematic vision shown by director Kozintsev, especially in his dramatic depiction of the towering castle of Elsinore and […]

Apr, 05

Die Marquise von O… [The Marquise of O] **** (1976, Edith Clever, Bruno Ganz, Edda Seippel) – Classic Movie Review 9466

Eric Rohmer’s witty and affecting adaptation of Heinrich von Kleist’s famous novella Die Marquise von O… [The Marquise of O] is set at the time of the Napoleonic Wars. It focuses on the honourable German […]

Mar, 05

The Eagle **** (1925, Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Bánky, Louise Dresser) – Classic Movie Review 9243

For his penultimate film, director Clarence Brown’s 1925 The Eagle, Rudolph Valentino plays Lieutenant Vladimir Dubrovsky, a Russian Cossack officer who disguises himself as an outlaw called The Black Eagle to avenge his father’s murder. […]

Jan, 09

Streets of Gold ** (1986, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Adrian Pasdar, Wesley Snipes) – Classic Movie Review 9219

Only Klaus Maria Brandauer raises a real spark of interest in director Joe Roth’s superficial 1986 Rocky clone, Streets of Gold, based on a story by Dezso Magyar. He plays Alek Neuman, a Russian Jewish […]

Jan, 03

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