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Attila the Hun * (1954, Anthony Quinn, Sophia Loren, Henri Vidal, Irene Papas, Ettore Manni, Claude Laydu) – Classic Movie Review 3493

Anthony Quinn stars as an unconvincing Hun in director Pietro Francisci’s risibly fumbled 1954 Italian historical epic spectacular focusing on the infamous warrior Attila and his band of the barbarian Huns and called by the […]

Mar, 23

The Pride and the Passion *** (1957, Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren, Theodore Bikel) – Classic Movie Review 3075

Producer-director Stanley Kramer assembles a big important cast for his costly, professional, but lumbering and misbegotten 1957 film of C S Forester’s novel The Gun about the capture of a huge cannon by a British […]

Nov, 21

Arabesque ***½ (1966, Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren, Alan Badel, Kieron Moore) – Classic Movie Review 2,912

Arabesque (1966) Stanley Donen’s 1966 film Arabesque tries to repeat the success of his Charade (1963) with another sleekly handsome romantic pair (Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren) thrown into another escapist Hitchcock-style thriller plot, with […]

Sep, 15

A Countess from Hong Kong **** (1967, Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren, Charles Chaplin, Sydney Chaplin, Tippi Hedren, Patrick Cargill, Margaret Rutherford) – Classic Movie Review 2551

Marlon Brando stars in A Countess from Hong Kong as the rich American diplomat Ogden Mears who spends his last night in Hong Kong with Russian Countess Natascha (Sophia Loren), who follows him on board his […]

Jun, 02

La Ciociara [Two Women] **** (1961, Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raf Vallone, Eleonora Brown) – Classic Movie Review 2361

Sophia Loren won Best Actress awards at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival and the 1962 Oscars for her glorious tour-de-force in the 1961 drama film La Ciociara [Two Women], the first non-English-language performance to win […]

Apr, 05

El Cid **** (1961, Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone) – Classic Movie Review 1851

Director Anthony Mann’s 1961 historical epic for producer Samuel Bronston stars Charlton Heston in one of his most famous heroic roles as the 11th-century Spanish warrior Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar – El Cid. Sophia Loren […]

Nov, 17

The Millionairess ** (1960, Sophia Loren, Peter Sellers, Alastair Sim) – Classic Movie Review 1,804

Anthony Asquith’s 1960 British romantic comedy film The Millionairess has the huge virtue of bringing together Sophia Loren and Peter Sellers on screen. Director Anthony Asquith’s 1960 British romantic comedy film The Millionairess may be less […]

Nov, 06

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