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Crisis *** (1950, Cary Grant, José Ferrer, Ramon Novarro, Antonio Moreno, Signe Hasso, Paula Raymond, Leon Ames, Gilbert Roland) – Classic Movie Review 3,090

The intriguing 1950 thriller film Crisis stars Cary Grant as a renowned American neurosurgeon compelled to try to save the life of a dying South American leader (José Ferrer) with a brain tumour. Writer-director Richard […]

Nov, 24

In Cold Blood ***** (1967, Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe, Jeff Corey, Paul Stewart, Will Geer) – Classic Movie Review 2874

Writer-director Richard Brooks’s gruelling 1967 movie version of Truman Capote’s 1966 bestselling true-crime ‘non-fiction novel’ about the brutal, senseless murder of a family in rural Kansas is extremely gripping, authentic and realistic, but also thankfully avoids […]

Sep, 02

Brute Force **** (1947, Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Ann Blyth, Ella Raines, Yvonne De Carlo) – Classic Movie Review 1580

Director Jules Dassin’s 1947 film noir prison-break thriller Brute Force is admirably tough and exciting, quite brutal for its day. It has exactly the right star in Burt Lancaster as Westgate Penitentiary inmate Joe Collins, […]

Aug, 23

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ***** (1958, Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor, Burl Ives, Judith Anderson) – Classic Movie Review 174

Elizabeth Taylor stars as the sexy, taunting hussy Maggie the Cat, plotting to re-arouse the limp sexual interest of her sulky, alcoholic, gay husband, Brick Pollitt (Paul Newman). Brick is reunited with his father Big […]

Aug, 19

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