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Top 100 Movie Review: No. 028 – Dr. Strangelove (1964)

June 13, 2020

Ranked 028 on the IMDb Top 100 Movie List (as at May 2017). Watched movie during June 2020.

Cast: Peter Sellers (Captain Lionel Mandrake / President Merkin Muffley / Dr. Strangelove), George C. Scott (Gen. ‘Buck’ Turgidson), Sterling Hayden (Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper), Keenan Wynn (Col. ‘Bat’ Guano), Slim Pickens (Maj. ‘King’ Kong), Peter Bull (Russian Ambassador Alexi de Sadesky), James Earl Jones (Lt. Lothar Zogg), Tracy Reed (Miss Scott)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
My rating: 8.5 / 10

Full Movie Title: Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

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Top 100 Movie Review: No. 029 – Some Like It Hot (1959)

June 11, 2020

Ranked 029 on the IMDb Top 100 Movie List (as at May 2017).
Watched movie during June 2020.

Cast: Marilyn Monroe (Sugar Kane), Tony Curtis (Joe / Josephine / Shell Oil Junior), Jack Lemmon (Jerry / Daphne), George Raft (Spats Colombo), Pat O’Brien (Detective Mulligan), Joe E. Brown (Osgood), Nehemiah Persoff (Little Bonaparte), Joan Shawlee (Sweet Sue), Billy Gray (Sig Poliakoff)
Director: Billy Wilder
My rating: 9.0 / 10

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Top 100 Movie Review: No. 030 – Ben-Hur (1959)

June 11, 2020

Ranked 030 on the IMDb Top 100 Movie List (as at May 2017). Watched movie during June 2020.

Cast: Charlton Heston (Judah Ben-Hur), Jack Hawkins (Quintus Arrius), Haya Harareet (Esther), Stephen Boyd (Messala), Hugh Griffith (Sheik Ilderim), Martha Scott (Miriam), Cathy O’Donnell (Tirzah), Sam Jaffe (Simonides), Finlay Currie (Balthasar), Frank Thring (Pontius Pilate)
Director: William Wyler
My rating: 8.5 / 10

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Top 100 Movie Review: No. 031 – Apocalypse Now (1979)

June 8, 2020

Ranked 031 on the IMDb Top 100 Movie List (as at May 2017). Watched movie during June 2020.

Cast: Martin Sheen (Captain Benjamin L. Willard), Marlon Brando (Colonel Walter E. Kurtz), Robert Duvall (Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore), Frederic Forrest (Jay ‘Chef’ Hicks), Sam Bottoms (Lance B. Johnson), Laurence Fishburne (Tyrone ‘Clean’ Miller), Albert Hall (Chief Phillips), Harrison Ford (Colonel Lucas), Dennis Hopper (Photojournalist), G.D. Spradlin (General R. Corman)
Director: Francis Coppola
My rating: 9.0 / 10

Note: This Review is based on the 2001 Redux edition of the movie.

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Top 100 Movie Review: No. 032 – Amadeus (1984)

June 4, 2020

Ranked 032 on the IMDb Top 100 Movie List (as at May 2017). Watched movie during June 2020.

Cast: F. Murray Abraham (Antonio Salieri), Tom Hulce (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart), Elizabeth Berridge (Constanze Mozart), Roy Dotrice (Leopold Mozart), Simon Callow (Emanuel Schikaneder), Christine Ebersole (Caterina Cavalieri), Jeffrey Jones (Emperor Joseph II)
Director: Milos Forman
My rating: 7.5 / 10

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Top 100 Movie Review: No. 028 – Dr. Strangelove (1964)

Top 100 Movie Review: No. 029 – Some Like It Hot (1959)

Top 100 Movie Review: No. 030 – Ben-Hur (1959)

Top 100 Movie Review: No. 031 – Apocalypse Now (1979)

Top 100 Movie Review: No. 032 – Amadeus (1984)