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![]() Cary Grant and Alfred Hitchcock combine in a great caper movie – maintaining just enough menace to be thrilling in the vein of Hitchcock’s best movies, yet also featuring much comedy. The acting class on display only adds to the movie’s excellent reputation. |
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![]() How to Steal a Million could just as easily be titled How to Steal a Movielover’s Heart. Audrey Hepburn & Peter O’Toole in their primes, Paris as if in a stylish fantasy, lots of well-earned laughs: it’s a sure thing. Wiliam Wyler famously directed Princess Audrey in Roman Holiday…
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Smashmouth provides ideal trailer track.
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![]() Legendary movie about legendary bank robbers fails to live up to its legend. Over-the-top performances and violence that is far from the current cutting-edge make Bonnie and Clyde somewhat of a museum piece. That said, with star power and style points to spare, the movie is worth watching for… |
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![]() Sidney Poitier takes on Southern racism and murder in an engaging and quite ground-breaking film – one which angers and satisfies in equal measure, and presents the very real struggle for civil rights in 1960s America.
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![]() Though I respect Stanley Kubrick as a director, I understand that his movies….well….aren’t for eveyone. They’re definitely higher in the artistic department than with writing. Some might not like The Shining and some might not like 2001. Well, though I like The Shining and I respect *20… |
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![]() Clint Eastwood’s Harry Callahan brings his own brand of justice to San Francisco in “Dirty Harry”, in my opinion one of the defining crime films of all time.
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Dirty Harry Trailer
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![]() For its time, The French Connection is a ground-breaking movie, and with a gripping narrative alongside brutal action and strong performances from Hackman and Schneider, it deserves recognition. |
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![]() A miscast Sean Connery anchors this disappointing caper movie from the early 70s. It hasn’t aged well. Slow moving and dependent on the wonder of then cutting-edge audio and video taping, the movie is more relic than riveting. That said, it seems like a perfect redo, a la Ocean’s Eleven… |