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Split Second *** (1953, Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Jan Sterling, Keith Andes, Arthur Hunnicutt) – Classic Movie Review 11,970

Director Dick Powell’s tense and taut 1953 RKO Pictures American film noir thriller film Split Second stars Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Jan Sterling, Keith Andes, and Arthur Hunnicutt. Escaped armoured car robber convicts Sam Hurley […]

Mar, 01

The Card Counter *** (2021, Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan, Willem Dafoe) – Movie Review

Writer-director Paul Schrader’s 2021 American crime drama film The Card Counter stars Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan, and Willem Dafoe. Martin Scorsese is notable as one of the many executive producers. It has two enormously high cards in its hand: Oscar Isaac’s […]

Dec, 07

A Private’s Affair ** (1959, Sal Mineo, Christine Carère, Barry Coe, Gary Crosby, Barbara Eden, Terry Moore, Jim Backus, Jessie Royce Landis) – Classic Movie Review 9860

Director Raoul Walsh’s 1959 comedy A Private’s Affair is a story of military mayhem, with a trio of naughty young servicemen – US Army private Luigi J Maresi (Sal Mineo), Jerry Morgan (Barry Coe) and […]

Jun, 03

Blue Sky **** (1994, Jessica Lange, Tommy Lee Jones, Amy Locane, Powers Boothe, Carrie Snodgress, Chris O’Donnell) – Classic Movie Review 1475

Blue Sky is a splendid final memorial to the late great British director Tony Richardson, who started his movie career filming Look Back in Anger (1959) and A Taste of Honey (1961) and won the Academy […]

Jul, 26

G I Blues **** (1960, Elvis Presley, Juliet Prowse, Robert Ivers, James Douglas) – Classic Movie Review 1360

Director Norman Taurog’s 1960 musical G I Blues is an effective tailor-made show for Elvis Presley, then just back in movies after service in the US Army as the most publicised American soldier since General […]

Jun, 26

The Thin Red Line ***** (1998, Jim Caviezel, Ben Chaplin, John Cusack, Elias Koteas, Nick Nolte, Sean Penn, Adrien Brody, Woody Harrelson, John C Reilly) – Classic Movie Review 478

An absolutely stonking, gut-wrenching and astounding poetic war movie masterpiece from legendary writer-director Terrence Malick, this was only his third film in three decades. Based on the autobiographical 1962 novel by James Jones (From Here […]

Dec, 07

The Deer Hunter ***** (1978, Robert De Niro, John Savage, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep) – Classic Movie Review 346

The all-time great 1978 war drama film The Deer Hunter is co-written and directed by Michael Cimino. Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and John Savage star thrillingly as Slavic-American steelworkers whose lives are upended after […]

Nov, 01

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