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Faibles Femmes [Three Murderesses] *** (1959, Alain Delon, Mylène Demongeot, Pascale Petit, Jacqueline Sassard) – Classic Movie Review 11,198

‘EXPOSED! What a delicious piece of assassination!’ Writer-director Michel Boisrond’s 1959 French-Italian Eastmancolor black comedy film Faibles Femmes [Three Murderesses] stars Alain Delon in his third feature, crucial to launching him as a star, though […]

May, 12

Rag Doll [Young, Willing and Eager] *** (1961, Jess Conrad, Hermione Baddeley, Kenneth Griffith, Christina Gregg, Patrick Magee) – Classic Movie Review 10,807

The 1961 British B-movie crime film Rag Doll gained a new audience in the 2000s in response to Jess Conrad’s elevation to cult status as a pre-Beatles British icon. Director Lance Comfort’s 1961 crime drama […]

Jan, 19

Tenue de Soirée *** (1986, Gérard Depardieu, Michel Blanc, Miou-Miou) – Classic Movie Review 10,560

Writer-director Bertrand Blier’s 1986 crime comedy drama Tenue de Soirée [Evening Dress] [Ménage] stars Gérard Depardieu as a rough-trade bisexual robber who talks a couple (Michel Blanc, Miou-Miou) into a threesome and a crime. This […]

Nov, 18

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

China ** (1943, Loretta Young, Alan Ladd, William Bendix) – Classic Movie Review 10,102

Director John Farrow’s 1943 propaganda war film China stars Alan Ladd, in a typical role for him as cynical, tough guy profiteer Mr David Jones, who has a change of heart as Pearl Harbor and […]

Jul, 29

Brain Damage ** (1988, Rick Hearst, Gordon MacDonald, Jennifer Lowry) – Classic Movie Review 10,085

Writer-director Frank Henenlotter, of Basket Case (1982) fame, goes one step further into the realm of bad taste with this tale of a phallus-resembling parasite that locks into Brian (Rick Hearst)’s brain and injects him […]

Jul, 25

Basket Case *** (1982, Kevin Van Hentenryck, Terri Susan Smith, Beverly Bonner) – Classic Movie Review 10,082

Writer-director Frank Henenlotter provides good grisly cult film fun with his campy 1982 low-budget ($35,000) comedy horror film Basket Case about a young man who checks into a seedy New York Times Square hotel with […]

Jul, 25

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