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5 Steps to Danger **½ (1956, Ruth Roman, Sterling Hayden, Werner Klemperer, Richard Gaines, Charles Davis, Jeanne Cooper, Peter Hansen) – Classic Movie Review 11,537

The 1956  American film noir crime movie Five Steps to Danger is an interesting Cold War thriller with brisk, sometimes imaginative handling from writer-producer-director Henry S Kesler and involving star performances by the underrated Sterling […]

Aug, 31

Whipsaw *** (1935, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, Harvey Stephens) – Classic Movie Review 10,243

MGM’s entertaining 1935 romantic crime drama Whipsaw stars Myrna Loy as a jewel thief and Spencer Tracy as a government agent hot on her trail. Director Sam Wood’s 1935 romantic crime drama Whipsaw stars Myrna […]

Aug, 30

Hugs and Kisses [Puss & kram] *** (1967, Sven-Bertil Taube, Agneta Ekmanner, Lena Granhagen, Håkan Serner, Ingrid Boström) – Classic Movie Review 9281

Writer-director Jonas Cornell’s 1967 romantic comedy drama Hugs and Kisses [Puss Och Kram] is a bright, deliciously offbeat Swedish film centring on an aspiring author John (Håkan Serner) who is thrown out by his girlfriend […]

Jan, 19

Dudley Do-Right ** (1999, Brendan Fraser, Sarah Jessica Parker, Alfred Molina, Eric Idle, Robert Prosky, Alex Rocco, Jack Kehler) – Classic Movie Review 7254

Brendan Fraser is sweet and fun as the Royal Canadian Mountie who gets his girl, Nell Fenwick (Sarah Jessica Parker), from the clutches of the wicked villain Snidely Whiplash (Alfred Molina) in writer-director Hugh Wilson’s recklessly silly but […]

Jul, 05

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds **** (1972, Joanne Woodward, Nell Potts, Roberta Wallach) – Classic Movie Review 6182

Director Paul Newman provides a whacking great role for his wife Joanne Woodward in his 1972 film of Paul Zindel’s Pulitzer-prize play, adapted for the screen by writer Alvin Sargent. It is a little known […]

Nov, 03

Candyman **** (1992, Virginia Madsen, Kasi Lemmons, Xander Berkeley, DeJuan Guy, Tony Todd) – Classic Movie Review 6116

A Clive Barker story called The Forbidden is realised on screen with great vigour by screen-writer/ director Bernard Rose in this exciting, full-throttle 1992 horror movie. Virginia Madsen stars as the spunky heroine Helen Lyle, […]

Oct, 20

Death Wish V: The Face of Death ½ (1994, Charles Bronson, Lesley-Anne Down, Michael Parks, Saul Rubinek) – Classic Movie Review 5052

Writer-director Allan A Goldstein takes over for the 1994 final episode of Death Wish, with a physically much changed Charles Bronson (then 73) back as the wrinkled urban vigilante Paul Kersey. The revenge vigilante action […]

Feb, 23

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