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Jackie Chan stars in Police Story 2: ‘Dynamite is a controlled substance. There’s only two ways you can get it; legally for industrial use, or, it has to be smuggled in.’ Director Jackie Chan’s 1988 […]
Western cult stars Lee Van Cleef and Tomas Milian give great workouts for their practised, long-polished turns in director Sergio Sollima’s tough-toned 1966 European Western film The Big Gundown [La resa dei conti] about a […]
Director Gordon Douglas’s 1950 swashbuckling adventure film Fortunes of Captain Blood is an acceptably humble adventure, based on the novel by Rafael Sabatini, though the routine script and direction, and the cheap-looking Columbia Pictures production […]
Director John Frankenheimer’s 1982 American-Japanese macho action movie The Challenge stars Scott Glenn as the down-and-out American boxer Rick, paid to take an inherited sword from the States to Japan and finding himself caught in […]
Director Norman Foster’s 1939 20th Century Fox black and white crime thriller Mr Moto Takes a Vacation is the eighth and last release in Peter Lorre’s enjoyable casebook, as the oriental detective Mr Moto sets […]
Director Lamont Johnson’s oddball and appealing 1971 Western A Gunfight stars Kirk Douglas and Johnny Cash (in his second film acting performance following the 1961 crime drama Five Minutes to Live) as ageing shootists Will Tenneray […]
The 1975 swashbuckling adventure Zorro stars Alain Delon, who cuts a dash as Don Diego and the masked avenger El Zorro in director Duccio Tessari’s bubbly, efficiently handled tale of derring-do, set in South America, […]