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China 9, Liberty 37 [Amore, piombo e furore] *** (1978, Fabio Testi, Warren Oates, Jenny Agutter) – Classic Movie Review 7858

Director Monte Hellman’s 1978 China 9, Liberty 37 [Amore, piombo e furore] is a very intriguing Spaghetti Western, with a great performance by Fabio Testi as Clayton Drumm, a condemned gunfighter who will win a pardon if […]

Nov, 30

Small Town Crime ** (2017, John Hawkes, Octavia Spencer, Robert Forster, Anthony Anderson, Clifton Collins Jr, Michael Vartan, Daniel Sunjata, James Lafferty) – Movie Review

John Hawkes stars as alcoholic ex-cop Mike Kendall, who finds the body of a young woman and puts his family in danger when he becomes hell-bent on finding the killer. The trail leads to a […]

Oct, 10

The Big White *** (2005, Robin Williams, Giovanni Ribisi, Holly Hunter, Woody Harrelson, Tim Blake Nelson, W Earl Brown) – Classic Movie Review 4518

In Alaska, cash-strapped travel agent Paul Barnel (Robin Williams) stumbles across a frozen corpse and tries to pass it off as his missing, presumed-dead brother Raymond to claim the $1 million insurance payoff. But then he finds […]

Oct, 24

Our Mother’s House **** (1967, Dirk Bogarde, Yootha Joyce, Margaret Brooks, Mark Lester, Pamela Franklin, Yootha Joyce, Anthony Nicholls, Phoebe Nicholls) – Classic Movie Review 4198

The 1967 British thriller drama film Our Mother’s House about seven children who hide the death of their deeply religious mother by burying her body in the garden of their dilapidated suburban Victorian home is […]

Aug, 19

The Man Who Never Was **** (1956, Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng, Stephen Boyd, Laurence Naismith, Michael Hordern, André Morell, Geoffrey Keen) – Classic Movie Review 3773

Director Ronald Neame’s engaging 1956 British wartime espionage thriller film The Man Who Never Was precedes the similar-minded I Was Monty’s Double (1958) as a popular Fifties movie about a British World War Two attempt to […]

May, 25

Taste of Fear [Scream of Fear] **** (1961, Susan Strasberg, Ann Todd, Ronald Lewis, Christopher Lee, Leonard Sachs) – Classic Movie Review 2894

Director Seth Holt’s 1961 British horror thriller stars Susan Strasberg as Penny Appleby, a wheelchair-confined young socialite who insists that she keeps seeing her father’s dead body when she returns to his estate after ten years. […]

Sep, 08

The Reckless Moment ****½ (1949, James Mason, Joan Bennett, Geraldine Brooks) – Classic Movie Review 2143

Director Max Ophüls‘s uber-tense and super-stylish 1949 film noir suspense thriller is set in Balboa 50 miles from Los Angeles. It stars Joan Bennett as Lucia Harper, an American middle-class mother becomes increasingly deranged after she discovers […]

Feb, 01

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