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Posts Tagged "smuggling"

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Intrigue **½ (1947, George Raft, June Havoc, Tom Tully, Helena Carter) – Classic Movie Review 12,551

The 1947 film noir crime thriller Intrigue stars George Raft as former smuggler turned hero Brad Dunham, who confronts hordes of heavies in post-war Shanghai and tracks down the head of a gang of black […]

Jun, 28

The Birthday Present *** (1957, Tony Britton, Sylvia Syms, Jack Watling, Geoffrey Keen) – Classic Movie Review 11,330

Director Pat Jackson’s 1957 drama The Birthday Present stars Tony Britton as British toy salesman Simon Scott who finds his life, career and marriage heading disastrously downwards after he is convicted for six months of […]

Jun, 21

Monte Carlo or Bust! *** (1969, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Tony Curtis, Bourvil, Walter Chiari, Terry-Thomas, Gert Fröbe, Susan Hampshire, Jack Hawkins, Eric Sykes) – Classic Movie Review 11,157

Director Ken Annakin’s 1969 comedy Monte Carlo or Bust! [Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies] stars Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Tony Curtis, Bourvil, Walter Chiari, Terry-Thomas, Gert Fröbe, Susan Hampshire, Jack Hawkins, Eric Sykes, […]

May, 02

The Sicilian Cross (1976, Roger Moore, Stacy Keach, Ivo Garrani, Fausto Tozzi) – Classic Movie Review 10,232

Directors Maurizio Lucidi and Guglielmo [William] Garroni’s basic 1976 Italian gangster film The Sicilian Cross [Gli Esecutori] [Street People] [The Executors] stars Roger Moore as Ulysses [Ulisse], an Italian-American lawyer searching for a stolen heroin […]

Aug, 27

Cairo Road ** (1950, Eric Portman, Laurence Harvey, Maria Mauban, Harold Lang, John Gregson) – Classic Movie Review 9879

Director David Macdonald’s 1950 thriller Cairo Road stars Laurence Harvey, aged 21, at the start of his film career, although already in his fifth film. He supports his friend Eric Portman in an exotically located […]

Jun, 08

Fire Down Below *** (1957, Rita Hayworth, Robert Mitchum, Jack Lemmon, Herbert Lom) – Classic Movie Review 9116

Director Robert Parrish’s 1957 Fire Down Below is based on the novel by Max Catto and stars Robert Mitchum and Jack Lemmon as Felix and Tony, tramp boat owning adventurers falling in love with and […]

Dec, 01

The Ship That Died of Shame [PT Raiders] *** (1955, Richard Attenborough, George Baker, Bill Owen, Virginia McKenna) – Classic Movie Review 8461

When World War Two is over, the crew of a gunboat buy their old boat and run smuggled goods across the English Channel into Britain, in director Basil Dearden’s 1955 Ealing Studios black and white […]

May, 12

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