Movies starring Telly Savalas

Battle of the Bulge (1965)

167 mins     Action , Drama, War      

Anyone who has read my reviews of other WWII movies will know that my knowledge of the war is limited due to the poor history lessons which for some reason decided to ignore teaching us about the various conflicts during WWII...

Genghis Khan (1965)

127 mins     Adventure , Drama      

It is 50 years since director Henry Levin made "Genghis Khan" and much has changed in the world of cinema in those interceding years which means when you watch "Genghis Khan" for the first time now it is a very different expe...

The Dirty Dozen (1967)

149 mins     Action , Comedy, Drama, War      

Growing up there were those movies which would be shown again and again on TV such as "The Great Escape" and "The Magnificent Seven". One of those movies was the first "The Dirty Dozen" which I watched so often that at one ti...

The Battleground (1967)

75 mins     TV Movie, Western      

So to state the facts quickly; "The Battleground" is actually episode four of "Cimarron Strip" the 60s series which starred Stuart Whitman as lawman Marshal Jim Crown. Now usually I say that these episodes work as stand alone...

Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968)

108 mins     Comedy, Romance      

One woman, one child but three men who could be the daughter's father, no I am not talking about the musical "Mamma Mia" but the 1968 comedy "Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell". Here we have Gina Lollobrigida as the mother who is con...

MacKenna's Gold (1969)

128 mins     Western      

There is a saying which goes "All that glitters is not gold" and what a perfect description of 60s western "MacKenna's Gold". Here we have a western which should work, alongside the leads of Gregory peck and Omar Sharif there...

On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)

142 mins     Action , Adventure , Crime      

Everyone has their favourite Bond and their favourite Bond movie and at the same time they also have their least favourites and quite often when it comes to least favourites George Lazenby and "On Her Majesty's Secret Service...

Kelly's Heroes (1970)

144 mins     Action , Adventure , Comedy, War      

There have been a lot of movies which you could box as "soldiers go on a mission" and usually they revolve around a team of soldiers trying to blow up something critical to the enemy be it an ammo dump or a fuel supply but "K...

A Reason to Live, A Reason to Die (1972)

79 mins     Western      

"A Reason to Live, A Reason to Die" or "Una ragione per vivere e una per morire" as it is also known is rather an amusing movie. It's amusing not because it's a comedy, it isn't, but because it blatantly draws on "The Dirty D...

Horror Express (1972)

84 mins     Horror, Sci-Fi      

As someone raised on the movies of the 80s I have some fond memories of them and the first time I came across someone a couple of decades younger questioning what was so great about them I was shocked. But the thing is that I...

Capricorn One (1977)

123 mins     Action , Sci-Fi, Thriller      

Did man really walk on the moon or was it faked, a false landing created in a secret studio somewhere? That is one of many popular conspiracy theories and back in 1977 writer and director Peter Hyams gave us a movie built aro...

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)

114 mins     Action , Adventure , Drama      

Whilst director and producer Irwin Allen wasn't the first man to make a disaster movie he was pivotal to the success of the genre during the 70s. But ironically you could also say that he also played a part in the ending of t...

Escape to Athena (1979)

125 mins     Action , Adventure , Comedy      

Flummoxed, that is how I feel about "Escape to Athena" one of the most confused and misplaced movies I have forced myself to watch. On one hand it is a war movie with a mixed bag of prisoners in a Nazi PoW camp on a Greek Isl...

Cannonball Run II (1984)

108 mins     Action , Comedy      

Whilst I watched the first "Cannonball Run" movie numerous times during my childhood I never ever watched its sequel "Cannonball Run II". In fact I had the opportunity to watch "Cannonball Run II" shortly after reviewing the ...