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$ [Dollars] [The Heist] **** (1971, Warren Beatty, Goldie Hawn, Gert Fröbe) – Classic Movie Review 9251

Writer-director Richard Brooks’s 1971 comedy crime drama film $ [Dollars] [The Heist] stars Warren Beatty as bank employee Joe Collins, who robs safe deposit boxes with the help of hooker Dawn Divine (Goldie Hawn). Brooks’s […]

Jan, 11

Dark Alibi *** (1946, Sidney Toler, Benson Fong, Mantan Moreland, Teala Loring, Ben Carter) – Classic Movie Review 9066

Safe-crackings, faked fingerprints, framed jailbirds, shoot-outs and cell block riots are all relished here by esteemed B-movie director Phil Karlson, who gives this 1946 Charlie Chan entry Dark Alibi welcome pace and tension. Sidney Toler […]

Nov, 12

Drive a Crooked Road *** (1954, Mickey Rooney, Dianne Foster, Kevin McCarthy, Jack Kelly) – Classic Movie Review 8914

Director Richard Quine’s gritty 1954 black and white film noir crime drama thriller Drive a Crooked Road offers the 33-year-old Mickey Rooney a useful star role and he grabs it to give a fine performance […]

Sep, 18

The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again ** (1979, Tim Conway, Don Knotts, Tim Matheson) – Classic Movie Review 8469

Director Vincent McEveety’s 1979 The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again stars Don Knotts and Tim Conway, who reprise their roles as the daffy, knockabout inept outlaw villains Theodore Ogelvie and Amos Tucker from the The […]

May, 15

Queimada [Burn!] **** (1969, Marlon Brando, Evaristo Márquez, Renato Salvatori) – Classic Movie Review 7962

Director Gillo Pontecorvo’s 1968 Queimada [Burn!] [Battle of the Antilles] is part epic adventure-drama, part critical account of British colonialism. Pontecorvo’s sequel to his 1965 The Battle of Algiers tells the story of the British […]

Dec, 31

The Day They Robbed the Bank of England *** (1960, Aldo Ray, Elizabeth Sellars, Peter O’Toole, Kieron Moore) – Classic Movie Review 7754

The IRA plot to upset the English economy at the turn of the last century in 1901 by sending in a three man crew to steal all the Bank of England’s loot of gold in its […]

Nov, 04

Larceny, Inc *** (1942, Edward G Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford, Edward Brophy, Anthony Quinn, Jack Carson, Harry Davenport) – Classic Movie Review 7297

Director Lloyd Bacon’s 1942 Warner Bros crime comedy Larceny, Inc stars Edward G Robinson, who gives yet another bright and breezy performance in this lighthearted gangster spoof based on Laura Perelman and S J Perelman’s […]

Jul, 16

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