Burt Lancaster

The Crimson Pirate (1952)

The Crimson Pirate (1952)
Rating: ★★★
Dec 8, 2000Pirate Swashbuckler with Anachronistic Inventions
Burt Lancaster-starring pirate swashbuckler that announces it is not taking itself seriously and goes entertainingly over-the-top, eventually adding a series of wildly anachronistic inventions
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The Cassandra Crossing (1976)

The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
Rating: ★★
Apr 8, 2001Plague-Infected Train/Disaster Movie
From the heyday of the disaster movie, an all-star cast head up a big scale drama about a train where a passenger is carrying a deadly plague, only for the train to be shunted all across Europe
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Twilight’s Last Gleaming (1977)

Twilight’s Last Gleaming (1977)
Rating: ★★
Apr 2, 2004Nuclear Missile Silo Hijacking
Robert Aldrich makes a thriller in which rogue general Burt Lancaster hijacks a nuclear missile silo and demands the truth about the Vietnam War be released. A big muscular production that attained some controversy at the time
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Field of Dreams (1989)

Field of Dreams (1989)
Rating: ★★★★★
Feb 15, 2002Mystical Baseball Field with Ghost Players
Beautiful fantasy where Kevin Costner hears a voice that directs him to build a baseball diamond in his cornfield where dead players to return to life. A genteel fantasy filled with nostalgia for lost Americana and the 1960s
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The Phantom of the Opera (1990)

The Phantom of the Opera (1990)
Rating: ★★½
Jan 5, 2026Disfigured Madman Beneath the Opera House
Lush tv mini-series with Charles Dance as the Phantom, this stands too much in the shadow of the then recent Lloyd Webber musical and its making The Phantom into a romantic figure as opposed to a horror icon
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