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Dragnet **** (1954, Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, Richard Boone, Stacy Harris, Dennis Weaver) – Classic Movie Review 8514
In director Jack Webb’s excellent little 1954 film noir-style crime thriller Dragnet, the admirable Webb makes his mark as star actor in a naturalistic performance as the smug, cocky cop Sergeant Joe Friday, and the […]
The Stone Killer ** (1973, Charles Bronson, Martin Balsam, Jack Colvin) – Classic Movie Review 7775
The Stone Killer (1973) is another violent, unattractive Charles Bronson – Michael Winner action thriller film, released a year before their box-office bonanza with Death Wish, this time with the stone-faced Bronson as an LA […]
Night Owls ** (1930, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Edgar Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 7406
Director James Parrott’s 1930 comedy short film Night Owls is the first film to use Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy’s celebrated theme tune, ‘The Ku-Ku Song’, written by Marvin Hatley. Edgar Kennedy plays a bungling local […]
Beware Spooks! *** (1939, Joe E Brown, Mary Carlisle, Clarence Kolb) – Classic Movie Review 7386
Director Edward Sedgwick’s pleasant 1939 Columbia Pictures 65-minute black and white comedy Beware Spooks! is a moderately well made, mildly amusing vehicle for Joe E Brown’s knockabout antics as jittery, bumbling cop Roy Gifford, who first […]
The Trial *** (1993, Kyle MacLachlan, Anthony Hopkins, Jason Robards) – Classic Movie Review 7007
In a clash of the literary titans, Pinteresque meets Kafkaesque to disappointingly little avail in The Trial (1993). But, nevertheless, this is a respectable Harold Pinter-scripted version of the Franz Kafka novel by director David […]
Ask a Policeman **** (1939, Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt) – Classic Movie Review 6623
Director Marcel Varnel’s 1939 British comedy vehicle for loveable rogue comics Will Hay, Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt is unmissable for their many fans. Hay stars as Police Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot, and Marriott and Moffatt […]
The Range Feud ** (1931, Buck Jones, John Wayne, Susan Fleming) – Classic Movie Review 5483
Director D Ross Lederman’s 1931 Buck Jones Western may be just a cheap, assembly-line movie but it is briskly handled and entertaining. Disaster strikes when the new sheriff in town, Buck Gordon (Buck Jones), has no […]