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Police Story 2 [Ging chaat goo si juk jaap] **** (1988, Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Kwok-Hung Lam) – Classic Movie Review 11,350

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 […]

Jun, 27

The Big Gundown [La resa dei conti] **** (1966, Lee Van Cleef, Tomas Milian, Walter Barnes) – Classic Movie Review 9830

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 […]

May, 27

Fortunes of Captain Blood ** (1950, Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina, George Macready) – Classic Movie Review 9376

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 […]

Feb, 13

The Challenge ** (1982, Scott Glenn, Toshirô Mifune, Donna Kei Benz, Atsuo Nakamura) – Classic Movie Review 8525

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 […]

May, 31

Mr Moto Takes a Vacation *** (1939, Peter Lorre, Joseph Schildkraut, Lionel Atwill) – Classic Movie Review 8321

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 […]

Apr, 01

A Gunfight *** (1971, Kirk Douglas, Johnny Cash, Jane Alexander) – Classic Movie Review 8256

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 […]

Mar, 18

Zorro *** (1975, Alain Delon, Stanley Baker, Ottavia Piccolo) – Classic Movie Review 7970

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, […]

Jan, 01

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