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Storm Fear *** (1955, Cornel Wilde, Dan Duryea, Jean Wallace, Lee Grant, Steven Hill) – Classic Movie Review 3,546

Cornel Wilde’s low-budget 1955 black and white film noir thriller Storm Fear is mean and moody. The screenplay is by double Oscar-winning script-writer Horton Foote. Cornel Wilde, Lee Grant and Steven Hill star in the low-budget […]

Apr, 09

Shoot Out [Shootout] *** (1971, Gregory Peck, Patricia Quinn, Robert F Lyons, James Gregory, Rita Gam) – Classic Movie Review 3500

The intriguing and dramatic 1971 Western film Shoot Out comes from the True Grit team of director Henry Hathaway and producer Hal B Wallis and brings intensity to a familiar revenge theme. Director Henry Hathaway’s […]

Mar, 24

Public Enemies **** (2009, Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Billy Crudup, David Wenham, Marion Cotillard, Stephen Graham, Stephen Lang, Channing Tatum, Giovanni Ribisi, Stephen Dorff) – Classic Movie Review 3353

Twinkling with dangerous devil-may-care charm, Johnny Depp impresses as public enemy number one John Dillinger in Michael Mann’s heart-pounding 2009 epic biopic of the Depression-era bank robber who became a celebrity criminal and number one […]

Feb, 13

Dillinger **** (1945, Lawrence Tierney, Edmund Lowe, Anne Jeffreys, Elisha Cook Jr, Eduardo Ciannelli, Marc Lawrence) – Classic Movie Review 3234

Director Max Nosseck’s 1945 thriller is an excellent B-movie gangster film Dillinger, which uses imagination and skill to triumph over its low-budget cheapness and enjoys a claim to being humble poverty row Monogram Pictures’ best […]

Jan, 05

The Petrified Forest ***** (1936, Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart) – Classic Movie Review 2702

Robert Sherwood’s classic doom-laden and symbolic play is too reverentially and stagily shot in 1936 by Archie L Mayo, who is content to deliver it as a rather creaky movie museum piece of filmed theatre and not […]

Jul, 19

Violent Saturday **** (1955, Richard Egan, Victor Mature, Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine) – Classic Movie Review 1700

Director Richard Fleischer’s exciting, high-impact, high-anxiety 1955 suspense thriller focuses on the fallout of a vicious bank heist on a small town community in Arizona. A gang of hoodlums (Stephen McNally, Lee Marvin, J Carrol Naish) decides […]

Sep, 21

Killing Zoë **** (1993, Eric Stoltz, Julie Delpy, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Gary Kemp) – Classic Movie Review 959

First time writer-director Roger Avary’s scalding 1993 thriller stars Eric Stoltz as Zed, who arrives in Paris, sleeps with a call girl Zoe (Julie Delpy) and spends a night on the town with some dangerous new buddies […]

Mar, 22

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