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Cold Sweat ** (1970, Charles Bronson, James Mason, Liv Ullmann, Jill Ireland) – Classic Movie Review 9313

Director Terence Young’s 1970 European co-production action crime thriller Cold Sweat stars the unlikely trio of Charles Bronson, James Mason and Liv Ullmann, plus Bronson’s wife and regular co-star Jill Ireland. Mason stars as Captain […]

Jan, 28

The Crossing [Guo Chun Tian] **** (2018, Huang Yao, Sunny Sun) – Movie Review

Giving an attractive, compelling, credible performance, Huang Yao is a sympathetic young heroine as Peipei, who has spent much of the 16 years of her life travelling between Hong Kong where she studies and Shenzhen […]

Apr, 02

China Gate *** (1957, Gene Barry, Angie Dickinson, Nat ‘King’ Cole) – Classic Movie Review 5383

Writer/ producer/ director Samuel Fuller’s 1957 movie is gung-ho war adventure stuff, but with considerable edge and intelligence, in which a French-led multinational group of adventurers attack a Communist ammo dump in Indo-China in 1954. […]

May, 02

The City Under the Sea [War Gods of the Deep] *** (1965, Vincent Price, Tab Hunter, David Tomlinson, Susan Hart) – Classic Movie Review 4290

Vincent Price is highly effective as the ruler of an ancient underwater kingdom in director Jacques Tourneur’s innocuously entertaining 1965 fantasy adventure inspired by an Edgar Allan Poe poem. In a familiar Poe theme, Price’s […]

Sep, 03

Fury at Smugglers’ Bay *** (1961, Peter Cushing, John Fraser, Bernard Lee, William Franklyn, June Thorburn, Miles Malleson, Michèle Mercier, George Coulouris, Liz Fraser) – Classic Movie Review 4175

Writer-director John Gilling’s fun 1961 period adventure stars Peter Cushing as a Cornish squire who tries to keep the smugglers at bay. Gilling’s British sea saga about a gang of shipwreckers’ reign of terror in […]

Aug, 15

Moonfleet *** (1955, Stewart Granger, George Sanders, Joan Greenwood, Viveca Lindors, Jon Whiteley) – Classic Movie Review 3905

Director Fritz Lang’s lively but cardboard-looking 1955 vintage costume adventure, based freely on J Meade Falkner’s classic story, is way off Lang’s usual territory. It is somewhat shakily made as what looks like a chore […]

Jun, 23

Gumshoe **** (1971, Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Frank Finlay, Janice Rule, Carolyn Seymour, Fulton Mackay) – Classic Movie Review 3328

Director Stephen Frears’s excellent 1971 British neo-noir retro-gangster yarn provides a heaven-sent acting opportunity for Albert Finney as Eddie Ginley, a music-hall comedian/ nightclub bingo caller who really wants to be Dashiell Hammett’s legendary fictional […]

Feb, 05

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