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The Dark Past *** (1948, William Holden, Nina Foch, Lee J Cobb, Adele Jergens, Stephen Dunne, Lois Maxwell, Berry Kroeger) – Classic Movie Review 11,812
Director Rudolph Maté’s American 1948 extended flashback black and white psychological thriller The Dark Past is a suspenseful remake of the 1939 film Blind Alley, based on the 1935 play Blind Alley by James Warwick, with […]
Blood on the Arrow ** (1964, Dale Robertson, Martha Hyer, Wendell Corey) – Classic Movie Review 11,090
‘Their justice was Blood on the Arrow (1964)!’ Director Sidney Salkow’s ordinary and over-familiar 1964 B-movie Blood on the Arrow stars Dale Robertson, Martha Hyer and Wendell Corey, and is only moderately entertaining. Apaches besiege […]
Hold-Up *** (1985, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Kim Cattrall, Guy Marchand) – Classic Movie Review 10,786
Director Alexandre Arcady’s 1985 film Hold-Up stars Jean-Paul Belmondo, whose sprightly playing holds up, but not his success at the box-office, for this entertaining French-Canadian heist thriller, based on Jay Cronley’s novel, in which he […]
Violent Playground *** (1958, Stanley Baker, Peter Cushing, Anne Heywood, David McCallum) – Classic Movie Review 10,681
Director Basil Dearden’s 1958 black and white crime drama Violent Playground is a little-known, but quite well-done film from the British neo-realist school, with Liverpool part-time policeman and juvenile liaison officer Sergeant Truman (Stanley Baker) […]
Dial 1119 [The Violent Hour] *** (1950, Marshall Thompson, Virginia Field, Andrea King) – Classic Movie Review 10,601
The neat and tidy 1950 film noir support thriller Dial 1119 is directed by the nephew of MGM boss Louis B Mayer, and stars Marshall Thompson as a deranged escaped killer holding hostage the customers […]
Three Fugitives *** (1989, Nick Nolte, Martin Short, Sarah Rowland Doroff) – Classic Movie Review 10,042
The swift moving odd-couple (well odd-triple) 1989 slapstick comedy Three Fugitives is slickly directed by Francis Veber, who also writes the screenplay and bases it on his 1986 French farce film Les Fugitifs (with Gérard […]
The Delta Force *** (1986, Chuck Norris, Lee Marvin, Martin Balsam, Robert Forster, Joey Bishop, Lainie Kazan, George Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 9786
Co-writer/ director Menahem Golan’s 1986 anti-terrorist action thriller The Delta Force is a level-headed film of the real-life rescue of a hijacked TWA plane in Greece, in which the terrorists Abdul Rafai (Robert Forster) and […]