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Take the Money and Run **** (1969, Woody Allen, Janet Margolin, Marcel Hillaire) – Classic Movie Review 4000
The young Woody Allen’s hectic 1969 first feature as director is a fresh seeming, hilarious delight, with the co-writer and star as inept criminal Virgil Starkwell who cannot even convince bank staff that they are […]
‘G’-Men **** (1935, James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Ann Dvorak, Robert Armstrong, Barton MacLane, Lloyd Nolan, William Harrigan) – Classic Movie Review 3730
James Cagney stars in director William Keighley’s 1935 crime thriller as ‘Brick’ Davis, a thrusting lawyer, befriended and educated by big-time racketeer ‘Mac’ McKay (William Harrigan). Brick joins the side of justice as an FBI government […]
The Bat Whispers *** (1930, Chester Morris, Una Merkel, Maude Eburne, Spencer Charters) – Classic Movie Review 3592
Writer-director Roland West’s 1930 film version of Mary Roberts Rinehart’s spooky mansion stage chiller play The Bat is inevitably creaky but suitably creepy and satisfyingly funny, as a master arch criminal called The Bat steals a necklace […]
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot **** (1974, Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, George Kennedy, Geoffrey Lewis, Catherine Bach, Gary Busey) – Classic Movie Review 3167
Young writer-director Michael Cimino’s exciting 1974 thriller finds Clint Eastwood on his best form as Thunderbolt, a hardened artilleryman bank robber who flees from jail, chums up with Lightfoot, an aimless, flippant, irresponsible, irreverent young punk (Jeff […]
Loot ***½ (1970, Richard Attenborough, Hywel Bennett, Roy Holder, Lee Remick, Milo O’Shea, Dick Emery, Joe Lynch, John Cater, Aubrey Woods) – Classic Movie Review 2971
Director Silvio Narizzano films Joe Orton’s wickedly funny, now classic 1965 stage black comedy Loot in 1970 – the same year as the movie of Entertaining Mr Sloane. To succeed, Orton’s outrageous, wonderfully bad-taste comedy […]
Un Flic [Dirty Money] **** (1972, Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve, Richard Crenna) – Classic Movie Review 2,821
Jean-Pierre Melville’s rousing, stylish 1972 French crime thriller Un Flic [Dirty Money] features an ideally cast Alain Delon as a rough cop (un flic) and Richard Crenna as a hoodlum, two tough guys involved in […]
The Friends of Eddie Coyle ***** (1973, Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan, Steven Keats, Alex Rocco, Joe Santos, Mitchell Ryan) – Classic Movie Review 2715
Director Peter (Bullitt) Yates’s 1973 neo-noir crime thriller The Friends of Eddie Coyle is a highly impressive and often exhilarating gem. Robert Mitchum enjoys one of his best parts in the Seventies as Eddie ‘Fingers’ Coyle, […]