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The Last Time I Saw Archie ** (1961, Robert Mitchum, Jack Webb, Martha Hyer, France Nuyen) – Classic Movie Review 9588

Producer-director Jack Webb’s forgotten and neglected 1961 comedy The Last Time I Saw Archie stars Robert Mitchum as a real-life confidence trickster, Private Archie Hall, plying his trade at a US Forces base in the […]

Apr, 02

Universal Soldier ** (1972, George Lazenby, Edward Judd, Benito Carruthers, Germaine Greer, Rudolph Walker) – Classic Movie Review 9119

Director Cy Endfield’s 1972 war action drama Universal Soldier stars ex-Bond George Lazenby as mercenary Ryker, a gun for hire back in London with a view to a kill. Feminist Germaine Greer plays a feminist […]

Dec, 02

A Time for Killing ** (1967, Glenn Ford, George Hamilton, Inger Stevens, Paul Petersen) – Classic Movie Review 9070

Directors Phil Karlson and Roger Corman’s 1967 Western A Time for Killing [The Long Ride Home] stars Glenn Ford as Union soldier Major Charles Wolcott, who chases escaped Confederate prisoners led by Captain Dorrit Bentley […]

Nov, 15

Tracks *** (1976, Dennis Hopper, Taryn Power, Dean Stockwell) – Classic Movie Review 9018

Writer-director Henry Jaglom’s 1976 drama Tracks stars Dennis Hopper as Vietnam veteran sergeant Jack Falen, who accompanies the funeral casket of a dead comrade in arms on an epic train journey across the US to […]

Oct, 25

The Golden Coach [Le Carosse d’Or] [La Carrozza d’Oro] ***** (1952, Anna Magnani, Odoardo Spadaro, Nada Fiorelli, Duncan Lamont, Ricardo Rioli) – Classic Movie Review 8986

The 1952 French romantic comedy drama The Golden Coach [Le Carosse d’Or] [La Carrozza d’Oro] is filmed by the great Jean Renoir in rich, effervescent style, with gorgeous, luminous Technicolor photography by his gifted nephew […]

Oct, 16

Morning Departure [Operation Disaster] **** (1950, John Mills, Richard Attenborough, Nigel Patrick, Lana Morris, Peter Hammond, Helen Cherry, James Hayter) – Classic Movie Review 8749

The British stalwart reserve and resolve in a crisis is examined in force in director Roy Ward Baker’s intense British classic 1950 real-life submarine naval drama Morning Departure [Operation Disaster]. John Mills stars as Lieutenant […]

Jul, 23
The Camp on Blood Island * (1958, André Morell, Carl Möhner, Walter Fitzgerald, Barbara Shelley, Edward Underdown, Michael Goodliffe) – Classic Movie Review 8684

The Camp on Blood Island * (1958, André Morell, Carl Möhner, Walter Fitzgerald, Barbara Shelley, Edward Underdown, Michael Goodliffe) – Classic Movie Review 8684

Director Val Guest’s brutal and controversial British exploitation movie for Hammer Films – the 1958 The Camp on Blood Island – shows the Brits in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in Malaya trying desperately […]

Jul, 08

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