 | Psycho (1960) [Read More ...]
Description: For all the slasher pictures that have ripped off Psycho (and particularly its classic set piece, the "shower scene"), nothing has ever matched the impact of the real thing. More than just a first-rate shocker full of thrills and suspense, Psycho is also an engrossing character s... |
 | 12 Angry Men (1957) [Read More ...]
Description: Sidney Lumet's directorial debut remains a tense, atmospheric (though slightly manipulative and stagy) courtroom thriller, in which the viewer never sees a trial and the only action is verbal. As he does in his later corruption commentaries such as Serpico or Q & A, Lumet focuses... |
 | Seven Days in May (B&W) [Read More ...]
Description: John Frankenheimer's follow-up to The Manchurian Candidate is as intimate and subdued as its predecessor is flamboyant and energetic. Burt Lancaster is calm and calculating as the steely-eyed military hawk General Scott, who opposes the president's (Fredric March) plan to end the... |
 | Delta Force [Read More ...]
Description: This typical but well-made action movie, which spawned numerous sequels, means to combine the best elements of the disaster movie with the hard-boiled attributes of traditional action-adventures. When a plane is hijacked to the Middle East by Palestinian terrorists, the Pentagon ... |
 | The Stone Killer [Read More ...]
Review: Bronson vs. Mafia:The Stone Killer, directed by Michael Winner ,starring Charles Bronson as Lt. Torrey, a tough cop who takes no s--- or bullets,in this case Torrey is quicker on the draw or you might say a little trigger happy, never hesitating to eliminate anyone who stands in ... |
 | Murder on the Orient Express [Read More ...]
Description: Just the name "Orient Express" conjures images of a bygone era. Add an all-star cast (including Sean Connery, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset, and Lauren Bacall, to name a few) and Agatha Christie's delicious plot and how can you go wrong? Particularly if you add in Albert Finn... |
 | Psycho (1960) [Read More ...]
Description: For all the slasher pictures that have ripped off Psycho (and particularly its classic set piece, the "shower scene"), nothing has ever matched the impact of the real thing. More than just a first-rate shocker full of thrills and suspense, Psycho is also an engrossing character s... |
 | Al Capone [Read More ...]
Description: Rod Steiger. That's why you need to see this well-crafted but otherwise undistinguished biopic of America's most iconic gangster. Produced for Allied Artists (the upscale version of Monogram, the studio that made Dillinger in the mid-'40s), the film gets underway with the Brook... |
 | Cape Fear (1991) [Read More ...]
Description: Martin Scorsese's 1991 remake of J. Lee Thompson's 1962 thriller dabbles a bit in some fascinating psychological crosscurrents between its characters, but it finally trades in all that rich material for extensive and gratuitous violence. Robert De Niro plays a serial rapist relea... |
![]() | Seven Days in May [Read More ...]
Description: John Frankenheimer's follow-up to The Manchurian Candidate is as intimate and subdued as its predecessor is flamboyant and energetic. Burt Lancaster is calm and calculating as the steely-eyed military hawk General Scott, who opposes the president's (Fredric March) plan to end the... |
 | Anderson Tapes [Read More ...]
Description: An early example of the techno-thriller, The Anderson Tapes--sharply directed by Sidney Lumet from the novel by Lawrence Sanders--follows just-out-of-jail Duke Anderson (a balding Sean Connery) as he plots the heist of an entire New York apartment building, enlisting a crew that ... |
 | Lindbergh Kidnapping Case [Read More ...]
Review: Significant piece of history.:It can be disturbing sometimes, to see how some sides of our society have deteriorated in the 1990's. In the 1930's the kidnapping/killing of American hero aviator Charles Lindberg's baby represents a low point in our humanity.Telling this story is... |
 | Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 [Read More ...]
Description: Dog Day Afternoon. Annie Hall. Taxi Driver. In the pantheon of classic New York films, these three take pride of place. But there are, of course, others, some of which have fallen through the cracks over the years, criminally overlooked and unjustly relegated to commercial-riddle... |
 | Cape Fear [Read More ...]
Description: Superior to Martin Scorsese's punishing 1991 remake, this 1962 thriller directed by J. Lee Thompson (The Guns of Navarone) stars Robert Mitchum as a creepy ex-con angry at the attorney (Gregory Peck) whom he believes is responsible for his incarceration. After Mitchum makes clear... |
![]() | Salamander,The [Read More ...]
Review: A "thriller" that's more talky than tense:Rod Serling had a hand in this 1981 screenplay, (based on a Morris West novel), but even he couldn't solve the problem of turning a literary thriller into a cinematic one. Franco Nero, a Colonel in the Counter Intelligence Service, invest... |
![]() | Cape Fear [Read More ...]
Description: Martin Scorsese's 1991 remake of J. Lee Thompson's 1962 thriller dabbles a bit in some fascinating psychological crosscurrents between its characters, but it finally trades in all that rich material for extensive and gratuitous violence. Robert De Niro plays a serial rapist relea... |
 | Cape Fear (Widescreen Edition) [Read More ...]
Description: Martin Scorsese's 1991 remake of J. Lee Thompson's 1962 thriller dabbles a bit in some fascinating psychological crosscurrents between its characters, but it finally trades in all that rich material for extensive and gratuitous violence. Robert De Niro plays a serial rapist relea... |
 | Psycho (Widescreen Edition) [Read More ...]
Description: For all the slasher pictures that have ripped off Psycho (and particularly its classic set piece, the "shower scene"), nothing has ever matched the impact of the real thing. More than just a first-rate shocker full of thrills and suspense, Psycho is also an engrossing character s... |
 | Mitchell (1975) [Read More ...]
Review: Non-stop action!:The enormous ACTION CLASSICS 100 Movie Pack is a convenient combination of MILL CREEK's ACTION CLASSICS 50 Movie Pack and SUSPENSE CLASSICS 50 Movie Pack. Details of all 100 movies are available on my reviews located on those two product pages.
The ACTION CLASS... |
![]() | Cuba [Read More ...]
Description: One of Sean Connery's least-seen films, this Richard Lester vehicle manages to be both politically astute and darkly funny at the same time. Set in Cuba as the Castro revolution is coming to fruition, it stars Connery as an aging mercenary trying to decide which side it pays to b... |
