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The Panther’s Claw **½ (1942, Sidney Blackmer, Byron Foulger, Rick Vallin, Herbert Rawlinson, Gerta Rozan, Lynn Starr) – Classic Movie Review 4294
Sidney Blackmer takes over from Adolphe Menjou as tough Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt for director William Beaudine’s 1942 belated third Colt film, this time from PRC studios. Extortion leads to homicide at the opera and […]
The Night Club Lady *** (1932, Adolphe Menjou, Mayo Methot, Ruthelma Stevens, Richard ‘Skeets’ Gallagher) – Classic Movie Review 4293
This nifty mystery movie is the second film in Adolphe Menjou’s two-film Columbia Pictures’ series, followed by The Circus Queen Murder (1933). It is available to be seen on Turner Classic Movies. Menjou stars as top cop police […]
The 1,000 Eyes of Dr Mabuse [Die 1000 Augen des Dr Mabuse] **** (1960, Dawn Addams, Peter van Eyck, Gert Fröbe, Wolfgang Preiss) – Classic Movie Review 2989
Director Fritz Lang’s final film from 1960 is a spirited revisit to his Dr Mabuse stories of the 1922 and 1933 pre-Hitler era. Gert Fröbe (Goldfinger) is on fine form as Commissioner Kras, the cop […]
The Sicilian Clan [Le Clan des Siciliens] **** (1969, Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Lino Ventura, Irina Demick) – Classic Movie Review 2823
Co-writer/ director Henri Verneuil’s very satisfactory and entertaining plot-driven 1969 gangster action thriller The Sicilian Clan [Le Clan des Siciliens] is given a classy lift by a top-drawer French and Italian cast. The film is […]
Madigan **** (1968, Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Harry Guardino, Inger Stevens, James Whitmore, Susan Clark, Steve Ihnat, Don Stroud, Sheree North) – Classic Movie Review 2564
Director Don Siegel’s exciting 1968 police thriller Madigan stars the 57-year-old Richard Widmark, who gives a most compelling star turn as the tough New York City detective of the title, who sets out with his […]
All Things to All Men [The Deadly Game] *** (2013, Gabriel Byrne, Rufus Sewell, Toby Stephens, Terence Maynard, James Frain, David Schofield, Julian Sands) – Movie Review
Rufus Sewell stars as a maverick – ie bent – copper who stages a robbery with help from safe-cracker Toby Stephens and crime lord Gabriel Byrne in a London-set crime thriller story that closely recalls the […]
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