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City of Women [La Città Delle Donne] *** (1980, Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Prucnal, Bernice Stegers) – Classic Movie Review 4287

Later, lesser, still significant Fellini, and still with Mastroianni. Marcello Mastroianni stars as the businessman Snàporaz, who finds himself trapped in a large hotel and dreams that he is menaced by feminists in a city of […]

Sep, 03

Transsiberian **** (2008, Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer, Eduardo Noriega, Kate Mara, Ben Kingsley, Thomas Kretschmann) – Classic Movie Review 4083

Co-writer/ director Brad Anderson’s thrilling, uber-tense crime mystery drama is set on the Transsiberian express train from China to Moscow, the venue for chase, deception and murder when American couple Roy (Woody Harrelson) and Jessie (Emily Mortimer) […]

Aug, 13

Witness ***** (1985, Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Lukas Haas, Josef Sommer, Jan Rubes, Alexander Godunov, Danny Glover) – Classic Movie Review 4130

Director Peter Weir’s tense, exciting and perceptive 1985 thinking person’s thriller stars Harrison Ford and Kelly McGillis on their finest form, responding strongly to their roundly written roles as Philadelphia city cop John Book and […]

Aug, 04

Rome Express ***** (1932, Conrad Veidt, Gordon Harker, Esther Ralston, Joan Barry, Harold Huth, Cedric Hardwicke, Frank Vosper, Hugh Williams, Muriel Aked, Donald Calthrop, Finlay Currie) – Classic Movie Review 4023

The silky Conrad Veidt effortlessly steals the 1932 British thriller film Rome Express as Zurta, a mysterious professional criminal who organised an art theft.  Director Walter Forde’s tremendous 1932 movie Rome Express is a classic […]

Jul, 14

Sleeping Car to Trieste *** (1948, Jean Kent, Albert Lieven, Alan Wheatley, Paul Dupuis, David Tomlinson, Rona Anderson, Derrick de Marney, Grégoire Aslan, Bonar Colleano, Zena Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 4,022

Jean Kent stars in the quirky and amusing 1948 British thriller film Sleeping Car to Trieste about spies, art thieves and blackmailers aboard a trans-Europe express train. Director John Paddy Carstairs’s 1948 British thriller Sleeping […]

Jul, 14

The Taking of Pelham 123 ****½ (1974, Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, Hector Elizondo, Earl Hindman, Jerry Stiller, Tony Roberts, James Broderick, Kenneth McMillan) – Classic Movie Review 4,007

It has been remade twice, but the original super-charged 1974 action crime thriller The Taking of Pelham 123 is the real-deal business. Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam and Hector Elizondo are irreplaceable.  It has […]

Jul, 12

Unstoppable **** (2010, Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson, Ethan Suplee, Kevin Dunn, T J Miller) – Classic Movie Review 4006

All aboard for a fantastic, non-stop thrill ride as rail workers Frank and Will (Denzel Washington and Chris Pine) set off in a separate train to chase an unmanned, half-mile-long freight locomotive carrying a cargo […]

Jul, 12

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