Cape Fear: Cady Comes to Town
Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum. Photo: Universal When I was 15, one of the coolest movies to open in theaters was Martin Scorsese’s Cape Fear, a thriller that seemed to…
Ice Cold in Alex
In 1941, a group of British soldiers and nurses try to cross a North African desert in an ambulance, welcoming a South African officer (Anthony Quayle) who may have ulterior…
Guns of Navarone: Mission Impossible
Anthony Quinn, Anthony Quayle and Gregory Peck. Photo: Columbia I loved this movie when I was a kid. I had good taste. Some of the cherished childhood memories one chooses…
Battle for the Planet of the Apes
The fifth and concluding chapter in the original Planet of the Apes series presents apes as eloquent and bright as the ones in the first movie, a gigantic leap from…
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
The third, fourth and fifth films in this Planet of the Apes series explore how apes came to rule the Earth. In the near future, in the year of 1991,…