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Que la Bête Meure [The Beast Must Die] **** (1969, Michel Duchaussoy, Caroline Cellier, Jean Yanne) – Classic Movie Review 12,182

Claude Chabrol’s suspenseful 1969 French psychological thriller film Que la Bête Meure [The Beast Must Die] is based on the 1938 detective novel by Cecil Day-Lewis, writing as Nicholas Blake. Writer-director Claude Chabrol’s suspenseful and […]

Jun, 19

Meet Boston Blackie ** (1941, Chester Morris, Rochelle Hudson, Richard Lane, Charles Wagenheim) – Classic Movie Review 11,215

‘SPIES STALK CONEY ISLAND!’ Director Robert Florey’s 1941 Columbia Pictures black and white crime film Meet Boston Blackie stars Chester Morris in the first of his 14 B-movies (1941–1949) as the notorious but honorable jewel […]

May, 17

Week-End in Havana ***½ (1941, Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, John Payne, Cesar Romero) – Classic Movie Review 9,933

20th Century Fox’s 1941 film Week-End in Havana is a highly engaging Forties wartime musical, with Alice Faye and Carmen Miranda on top singing form. It is 81 minutes of Technicolor escapist bliss. Director Walter […]

Jun, 19

Once Upon a Time *** (1944, Cary Grant, Janet Blair, James Gleason, Ted Donaldson) – Classic Movie Review 8404

Director Alexander Hall’s 1944 black and white satirical comedy Once Upon a Time stars Cary Grant as Jerry Flynn, a canny but cash-strapped theatre producer about to go bust, and story is about the hit […]

Apr, 27

Voyage of the Damned *** (1976, Faye Dunaway, Oskar Werner, Lee Grant, Sam Wanamaker, Lynne Frederick, Katharine Ross, Max von Sydow, James Mason, Malcolm McDowell) – Classic Movie Review 8319

Director Stuart Rosenberg’s honourable 1976 wartime drama Voyage of the Damned was nominated for three Oscars: Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Lee Grant), Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Steve Shagan […]

Apr, 01

Raid on Entebbe *** (1976, Peter Finch, Charles Bronson, Yaphet Kotto, Martin Balsam, Horst Buchholz, John Saxon, Jack Warden) – Classic Movie Review 7061

Director Irvin Kershner’s Raid on Entebbe was made as an NBC TV movie, aired on 9 January 1977, but, thanks to the good reviews it won and its popular all-star ensemble cast, a film version was then released […]

May, 16

Across the Pacific **** (1942, Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet) – Classic Movie Review 6453

The iconic great stars from The Maltese Falcon (1941) – Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor and Sydney Greenstreet – join up again with their director John Huston for this entertaining but more routine 1942 Second World War […]

Dec, 22

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