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Five Miles to Midnight [Le couteau dans la plaie] ** (1962, Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins, Gig Young) – Classic Movie Review 11,541

Anatole Litvak’s flashy, slickly shot 1962 thriller film Five Miles to Midnight stars alluring Sophia Loren and Anthony Perkins at the height of their fame. Director Anatole Litvak’s 1962 Franco-Italian international co-production drama film Five Miles to Midnight […]

Sep, 01

Midas Run [A Run on Gold] ** (1969, Fred Astaire, Richard Crenna, Anne Heywood, Ralph Richardson, Roddy McDowall, Adolfo Celi, Maurice Denham, Cesar Romero) – Classic Movie Review 10,682

Director Alf Kjellin’s 1969 Midas Run [A Run on Gold] stars Fred Astaire as a devious veteran British secret service agent called John Pedley, who plots with duped professor Mike Warden (Richard Crenna) to steal a […]

Dec, 19

The Running Man *** (1963, Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick, Alan Bates) – Classic Movie Review 10,314

Director Carol Reed’s 1963 film The Running Man is a sedate and therefore undervalued Sixties thriller about English pilot scoundrel Rex Black (Laurence Harvey) faking his own death in a glider crash to defraud the […]

Sep, 16

The Man from the Pru *** (1990, Jonathan Pryce, Anna Massey, Susannah York, Richard Pasco, Philip Latham, Tom Georgeson, Geoffrey Hughes) – Classic Movie Review 9827

Director Rob Rohrer’s 1990 British TV movie drama The Man from the Pru stars Jonathan Pryce, concealed behind a moustache and glasses like Dr Crippen. Pryce gives a superbly detailed, sympathetic performance in the unshowy […]

May, 27

The Dancing Masters *** (1943, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Trudy Marshall, Trudy Marshall, Robert Bailey, Margaret Dumont, Matt Briggs, Allan Lane, Robert Mitchum) – Classic Movie Review 8497

Though director Malcolm [Mal] St Clair’s 1943 comedy The Dancing Masters is not the best of Laurel and Hardy, there is plenty of busy story taken at a fast lick and Stan and Ollie are […]

May, 26

One Body Too Many ** (1944, Jack Haley, Bela Lugosi, Jean Parker, Blanche Yurka, Lyle Talbot, Douglas Fowley, Bernard Nedell) – Classic Movie Review 6138

‘A shudder a second! A laugh a minute! YOU’LL DIE SCREAMING WITH LAUGHTER! Bela Lugosi is a welcome presence as the butler Merkil in the 1944 comedy-mystery film One Body Too Many. ‘A shudder a […]

Oct, 24

Gold Diggers of 1937 **** (1936, Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Victor Moore, Glenda Farrell, Osgood Perkins) – Classic Movie Review 5894

Keeping to the established formula, obviously there are more people putting on a show – this time insurance salesmen – in the fourth Gold Diggers film, with Busby Berkeley this time credited only as the […]

Aug, 10

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