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San Quentin ** (1946, Lawrence Tierney, Barton MacLane, Marian Carr, Harry Shannon, Raymond Burr) – Classic Movie Review 11,482
RKO’s 1946 thriller film San Quentin features Raymond Burr, aged 29, in his credited film début as ruthless killer Jeff Torrance. Director Gordon M Douglas’s 1946 RKO Radio Pictures thriller film San Quentin features Raymond […]
Up the River *** (1930, Spencer Tracy, Warren Hymer, Claire Luce, Humphrey Bogart) – Classic Movie Review 8029
Director John Ford’s 1930 comedy crime drama Up the River is an amusing junior-league Ford prison comedy, with the main interest less in the original story by Maurine Dallas Watkins and the script than in the teaming of […]
Escape from Alcatraz **** (1979, Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Roberts Blossom) – Classic Movie Review 6347
The only real-life escape from the infamous San Francisco island prison of Alcatraz in 1962 provides the true story for director Don [Donald] Siegel’s totally gripping 1979 Clint Eastwood thriller. Three inmates attempt a daring escape […]
Riot in Cell Block 11 **** (1954, Neville Brand, Emile Meyer, Frank Faylen, Leo Gordon) – Classic Movie Review 5657
Director Don Siegel’s masterly 1954 prison drama is low on budget but high on social concern and urgency as a plea for reform of the American prison system and conditions in US jails. It is […]
Murder in the First **** (1995, Kevin Bacon, Christian Slater, Gary Oldman, Embeth Davidtz, William H Macy, Stephen Tobolowsky, Brad Dourif, R Lee Ermey, Mia Kirshner) – Classic Movie Review 4325
That nice Kevin Bacon first appeared as a fraternity novice in National Lampoon’s Animal House back in 1978 and throughout the Eighties, greatly entertained us with such frivolities as Footloose. But, somewhere along the line, […]
Fortune and Men’s Eyes *** (1971, Wendell Burton, Zooey Hall, Michael Greer, Danny Freedman) – Classic Movie Review 2975
With a screenplay based by John Herbert on his own hit Los Angeles, Broadway and London West End play, director Harvey Hart’s tough 1971 Canadian movie is a powerful, disturbing and mostly depressing experience. The […]
Quills **** (2000, Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine) – Classic Movie Review 1432
Director Philip Kaufman’s real-life period drama stars Geoffrey Rush, the 1997 Best Actor Oscar-winner for Shine. He relishes a great, lip-smacking turn as the infamous Marquis de Sade, the French writer, jailed in a Parisian lunatic […]