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Gordon, Il Pirata Nero ** (1961, Ricardo Montalban, Vincent Price, Giulia Rubini, Liana Orfei) – Classic Movie Review 12,808

Ah yes, Gordon the good. Well, it had to happen sometime. And, oh yes, Romero the bad. The priceless Vincent Price valiantly goes through all the motions and emotions as an evil slave trader Romero, […]

Feb, 09

Ashanti (1979, Michael Caine, Beverly Johnson, Peter Ustinov, Kabir Bedi, Omar Sharif, Rex Harrison, William Holden) – Classic Movie Review 9547

Michael Caine’s career was in deepest doldrums with The Swarm, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure and then director Richard Fleischer’s terrible 1979 adventure drama Ashanti, in which he plays English born Dr David Linderby, a member […]

Mar, 22

The Mission **** (1986, Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally, Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn) – Classic Movie Review 6558

Director Roland Joffé’s religious-minded 1986 British anti-war film stars Jeremy Irons as Father Gabriel, a saintly 18th-century Spanish priest, whose Jesuit mission in South America is closed by a papal order. But Robert De Niro also […]

Jan, 14

Band of Angels ** (1957, Clark Gable, Yvonne De Carlo, Sidney Poitier, Efrem Zimbalist Jr, Rex Reason, Patric Knowles) – Classic Movie Review 3978

Director Raoul Walsh’s creaky, unenthusiastic, forgotten 1957 romantic drama Band of Angels stars Clark Gable as handsome but shady Louisiana plantation owner Hamish Bond and Yvonne De Carlo as privileged young southern belle Amantha Starr […]

Jul, 05

Spartacus ***** (1960, Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Peter Ustinov, Tony Curtis, Charles Laughton, John Gavin) – Classic Movie Review 122

‘I am Spartacus.’ Kirk Douglas is on his finest heroic form in the role he’ll always be remembered for as the fighter Spartacus who leads the slaves in a foolhardy attempt at revolt against the […]

Aug, 03

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