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The War Lord *** (1965, Charlton Heston, Richard Boone, Rosemary Forsyth, Maurice Evans, Guy Stockwell, Niall MacGinnis, James Farentino, Henry Wilcoxon) – Classic Movie Review 6484
Director Franklin J Schaffner’s 1965 historical drama film stars Charlton Heston, who plays Chrysagon, a medieval knight who starts trouble by trying to activate an old law of droit de seigneur in 11th-century Normandy. This […]
Lord Jim *** (1965, Peter O’Toole, James Mason, Eli Wallach, Paul Lukas, Jack Hawkins, Daliah Lavi, Curt Jurgens, Akim Tamiroff) – Classic Movie Review 6342
Richard Brooks’s 1965 film adaptation the gloomy 1900 Joseph Conrad novel was always going to be difficult to film and hard going. But Peter O’Toole is excellent as Lord Jim and there is good star […]
West of Shanghai [The Warlord] *** (1937, Boris Karloff, Beverly Roberts, Ricardo Cortez, Gordon Oliver) – Classic Movie Review 5628
Director John Farrow’s short (64 minute) 1937 war adventure drama stars Boris Karloff who gives the impression he is hugely enjoying himself cast, as of course he could not be today, as a Chinese warlord, […]
The General Died at Dawn **** (1936, Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Akim Tamiroff, Dudley Digges, Porter Hall) – Classic Movie Review 5585
Director Lewis Milestone’s 1936 film-noir adventure crime thriller stars Gary Cooper as American mercenary O’Hara who tries to stop ruthless warlord General Yang (Akim Tamiroff) from taking over part of China. Meanwhile spy Judy Perrie (Madeleine Carroll) lures him […]
Lord of War **** (2005, Nicolas Cage, Ethan Hawke, Jared Leto, Bridget Moynahan, Ian Holm) – Classic Movie Review 4330
Nicolas Cage greedily bites off a meaty role as Yuri Orlov, the world’s richest arms dealer, who marries his dream girl Ava Fontaine (Bridget Moynahan) and enlists his brother Vitaly Orlov (Jared Leto) into his evil trade. […]
Seven Women [7 Women] **** (1966, Anne Bancroft, Sue Lyon, Margaret Leighton, Flora Robson, Mildred Dunnock, Betty Field, Anna Lee, Eddie Albert) – Classic Movie Review 3995
John Ford said: ‘Seven Women (1966) is one of my favourite pictures. I thought it was a swell story and a good script.’ But, after three days of filming, original star Patricia Neal had a […]
Ran ***** (1985, Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Mieko Harada, Pîtâ) – Classic Movie Review 3733
Director Akira Kurosawa’s thrilling, marvellous-looking 1985 version of William Shakespeare’s play King Lear is transposed to 16th-century feudal Japan, with the senile old man now a warlord called Lord Hidetora Ichimonji (Tatsuya Nakadai) who cedes his kingdom […]