Endlessly brilliant mystery/thriller with an acting duel between titans: Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine who give career best performances in this, the final movie by director Joseph L. Mankowitz. A deceptively simple premise involving a mystery writer(Olivier) inviting his wife's lover(Caine) over to his mansion, and offering him a chance for both of them to make money via a "simple" insurance swindle. Of course nothing ends up being simple or what it seems in this fascinating play on the mystery…
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Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981
My favourite action film, Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark introduced the world to the whip-cracking archaeologist hero, Indiana Jones. He is equal parts college professor and adventurer. Set in 1936 Raiders has Jones(played brilliantly by Harrison Ford), tasked by the government with recovering the biblical artifact known as the ark of the covenant which may hold the original ten commandments as well as ''Lightning, fire, the power of God or something" (As Jones explains in a characteristically lackadaisical…
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The Maltese Falcon 1941
The greatest private eye movie ever made and although not the first film noir it was certainly the first genuine masterpiece of the genre. Bogart is at the top of his acting game in a powerhouse lead performance that would come to define his career as a leading man. John Huston also more than makes his mark as an incredible first time director. Bogart is more than ably supported with a phenomenal rogue's gallery of characters, including an Oscar nominated…
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