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Topaz

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Hitchcock hadn’t made a spy thriller since the 1930s, so his 1969 adaptation of Leon Uris’s bestseller seemed like a curious choice for the director. But Hitchcock makes Uris’s story of the West’s investigation into the Soviet Union’s dealings with Cuba his own. Frederick Stafford plays a French intelligence agent who works with his American […]

The Right Stuff

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The film begins in 1947 at Muroc Army Air Field, an arid California military base where test pilots often die flying high-speed aircraft such as the rocket-powered Bell X-1. After another pilot demands $150,000 to attempt to break the sound barrier, war hero Captain Chuck Yeager (Sam Shepard) receives the chance to fly the X-1. […]

Fame

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At the New York City High School for the Performing Arts, students get specialized training that often leads to success as actors, singers, and other artists. This movie follows four students from the time when they audition to get into the school, through graduation. They are the brazen Coco Hernandez (Irene Cara), shy Doris Finsecker […]

The Amityville Horror

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This movie uses a staple of effective scares: based on “true events.” Whether or not you believe the Lutz family’s account of what happened in the Long Island manse, it’s hard not to jump at the bumps in the night after seeing this movie. The lesson here: Never move into a house where a murder […]