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Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round *** (1966, James Coburn, Camilla Sparv, Aldo Ray, Nina Wayne, Robert Webber, Rose Marie) – Classic Movie Review 9032

Writer-director Bernard Girard’s 1966 crime drama Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round is a bright and brash tongue-in-cheek-thriller adventure starring James Coburn as Swinging Sixties ladies’ man crook Eli Kotch, a paroled conman masterminding a gang’s […]

Oct, 30

The Apple Dumpling Gang *** (1975, Bill Bixby, Susan Clark, Don Knotts, Tim Conway) – Classic Movie Review 8468

An exceptionally friendly cast jollies up director Norman Tokar’s well above-average 1975 Walt Disney children’s live action comedy Western adventure The Apple Dumpling Gang about a confirmed bachelor gambler called Russel Donavan (Bill Bixby) and […]

May, 14

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

Double Dynamite ** (1951, Jane Russell, Groucho Marx, Frank Sinatra) – Classic Movie Review 7480

Director Irving Cummings Jr’s 1951 RKO Radio Pictures black and white musical comedy stars the formidable trio of Jane Russell, Groucho Marx and Frank Sinatra, and is based on a story by Leo Rosten, with a screenplay by by Leo […]

Aug, 21

Time After Time **** (1979, Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steenburgen, David Warner) – Classic Movie Review 7,336

Malcolm McDowell stars as H G Wells, who jumps in his time machine and chases surgeon Dr John Leslie Stevenson (David Warner), aka Jack the Ripper, from Victorian London to 1979 San Francisco. Wells falls […]

Jul, 24

Kansas *** (1988, Matt Dillon, Andrew McCarthy, Leslie Hope) – Classic Movie Review 7330

Director David Stevens’s 1988 romantic crime thriller Kansas stars a finally clearly post-teen idol Matt Dillon (then 24), who is well cast as Doyle Kennedy, a psychopathic ex-convict who involves middle-class hitchhiker Wade Corey (Andrew […]

Jul, 23

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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