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The Informers ** (1963, Nigel Patrick, Margaret Whiting, Harry Andrews, Colin Blakely, Frank Finlay) – Classic Movie Review 12,138

Director Ken Annakin’s 1963 British black and white crime thriller The Informers [Underworld Informers] [The Snout] is based on Douglas Warner’s novel Death of a Snout, and stars Nigel Patrick, Margaret Whiting, Harry Andrews, Colin […]

May, 25

Ride a Crooked Trail ** (1958, Audie Murphy, Walter Matthau, Gia Scala, Henry Silva) – Classic Movie Review 11,710

Walter Matthau as a drunken judge and Audie Murphy as a Wild West desperado make another odd couple in the 1958 Western film Ride a Crooked Trail. Director Jesse Hibbs’s 1958 Western film Ride a […]

Nov, 08

The Old Man & the Gun *** (2018, Robert Redford, Casey Affleck, Sissy Spacek, Danny Glover, Tom Waits) – Movie Review

Robert Redford twinkles and is endlessly charismatic as real-life bank robber Forrest Tucker, who escaped from San Quentin at the age of 70 and carried out a string of gentlemanly heists, with the help of […]

Oct, 12

Escape from Alcatraz **** (1979, Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Roberts Blossom) – Classic Movie Review 6347

The only real-life escape from the infamous San Francisco island prison of Alcatraz in 1962 provides the true story for director Don [Donald] Siegel’s totally gripping 1979 Clint Eastwood thriller. Three inmates attempt a daring escape […]

Dec, 02

Good Time **** (2017, Robert Pattinson, Benny Safdie, Jennifer Jason Leigh) – Movie Review

The ironically titled Good Time is an extremely powerful thriller, mega tense and atmospheric. Career best performance (so far) by Robert Pattinson, a revelation, complete with rock solid, very particular American accent. Robert Pattinson and […]

Oct, 06

The Outfit **** (1973, Robert Duvall, Joe Don Baker, Karen Black, Robert Ryan) – Classic Movie Review 5278

Writer-director John Flynn’s sweaty, nerve-jangling 1973 neo noir thriller combines a tremendous cast and a terrific basis in a stupendous source novel by Donald E Westlake (writing as Richard Stark). Robert Duvall, Joe Don Baker […]

Apr, 10

Inside Man **** (2006, Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer, Willem Dafoe, Chiwetel Ejiofor) – Classic Movie Review 4516

New York cop Detective Keith Frazier (Denzel Washington) is engaged in a risky game of cat and mouse with smooth criminal Dalton Russell (Clive Owen), leader of a gang of robbers disguised in painters’ outfits, who storm […]

Oct, 23

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