William Goldman

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Princess Bride, The (TCF 1987, Cary Elwes, Robin Wright )
A grandfather (Peter Falk) regales his bed-ridden grandson (Fred Savage) with a tale of mystery and adventure: Wesley (Cary Elwes), who left home to make his...
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Bridge Too Far, A (1977, Dirk Bogarde, Michael Caine)
It seems as if an entire regiment of movie notables appears in this expensive and expansive epic based on Cornelius Ryan’s best-seller about a disastrous Allied...
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Magic (1978, Anthony Hopkins, Ann-Margret)
Anthony Hopkins stars in creepy psychological thriller Magic as a ventriloquist who slowly loses his grip on reality. Failed stage magician Corky Withers (Hopkins) tries one...
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Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (1969, Paul Newman, Robert Redford)
Classic western that, despite lukewarm reviews, took $100m at the box office, astonishing at the time, as well as receiving seven Oscar nominations (winning four) and...
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Misery (1990, Kathy Bates, James Caan)
Stephen King’s story is essentially a superb two-hander casting James Caan as a best-selling novelist who crashes his car in the snow in Colorado just after...
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All The President’s Men (1976, Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman)
All the President’s Men is a well-made thriller based on the unrelenting efforts of Washington Post reporters Woodward and Bernstein to uncover the Watergate scandal that...
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Sting, The (Universal 1973, Paul Newman, Robert Redford)
Robert Redford, Paul Newman and director George Roy Hill return in The Sting four years after their success with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to...
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Hot Rock, The (1972, Robert Redford, George Segal)
‘This American comedy,’ said the Daily Mail ‘evokes the great golden days of Ealing’. It was inventively scripted from Donald E Westlake’s novel by William Goldman,...
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Stepford Wives, The (Columbia 1975, Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss)
Like the phrase “Catch-22,” the title of this early feminist-era thriller about a secret conspiracy of husbands who replace their wives with vapid, subservient robots has...