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Le Testament d’Orphée [Testament of Orpheus] **** (1959, Jean Cocteau, Edouard Dermithe, Maria Casarès, François Périer, Henri Crémieux, Yul Brynner, Jean Marais, Claudine Auger) – Classic Movie Review 2985

Writer-director Jean Cocteau’s 1959 last film and movie final testament takes up where his first film Le Sang d’un Poète [Blood of a Poet] (1931) and arguably his most famous film Orphée (1950) left off. […]

Oct, 17

Anastasia *** (1956, Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes, Akim Tamiroff, Sacha Pitoeff) – Classic Movie Review 2650

Director Anatole Litvak’s 1956 movie brought Ingrid Bergman back to Hollywood for a triumphant return after a seven-year gap, unofficially blacklisted and apparently in disgrace with the American public over her extra-marital affair with Italian […]

Jun, 27

The Madwoman of Chaillot *** (1969, Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid, Oskar Homolka, Yul Brynner, Richard Chamberlain, Edith Evans, Donald Pleasence) – Classic Movie Review 2431

Director Bryan Forbes’s civilised 1969 satirical comedy drama turns Jean Giraudoux’s celebrated play La Folle de Chaillot into an offbeat vehicle for Katharine Hepburn, who plays an eccentric and idealistic French countess trying to stop the plan of corrupt powerful […]

Apr, 27

The Ten Commandments ****½ (1956, Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Edward G Robinson, Anne Baxter, Nina Foch, Cedric Hardwicke, Yvonne De Carlo, Debra Paget, John Derek) – Classic Movie Review 2247

Director Cecil B DeMille remakes his 1923 silent film The Ten Commandments in 1956 with the help of Charlton Heston as Moses, Technicolor, VistaVision and Oscar-winning special effects. The Ten Commandments also stars Yul Brynner as […]

Mar, 09

The King and I **** (1956, Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr, Rita Moreno) – Classic Movie Review 2193

Director Walter Lang’s much loved five-Oscar-winning 1956 film of the Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics) all-time great stage triumph, based on Margaret Landon’s book Anna and the King of Siam, is hugely […]

Feb, 20

The Magnificent Seven ***** (1960, Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, James Coburn, Charles Bronson, Horst Buchholz, Brad Dexter) – Classic Movie Review 1362

Producer-director John Sturges’s memorable 1960 Western is deservedly greatly admired and much loved. It stars Yul Brynner in one of his best and most famous roles as the honourable and steadfast gunfighter Chris Adams, who recruits […]

Jun, 25

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