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Robbing a bank by burrowing through sewers to get to its vaults adds piquancy to this tolerably exciting, old-fashioned 1981 British bank vault heist thriller, with a sturdy star turn from Albert Finney as the […]
Director Gerald Thomas’s neat little 1957 British black and white B-movie thriller film Time Lock is particularly tense and very satisfying, a first-rate exercise in suspense. Vincent Winter plays a six-year-old boy who is accidentally […]
The engaging 1956 British wartime espionage thriller film The Man Who Never Was finds British intelligence officers planting phony papers about the Allied invasion of Europe on a drowned man they call Major Martin to […]
Norman Z McLeod directs the sparkling 1937 vintage supernatural fantasy comedy classic Topper brightly, expertly and quite delicately and delightfully, with the help of a delicious screenplay by Jack Jevne, Eric Hatch and Eddie Moran, […]
The right stars in Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead crank up writer-director Crane Wilbur’s creaky 1959 version of the maniac-in-the-mansion stage chiller play The Bat by Mary Roberts Rinehart. Price plays Dr Malcolm Wells. Moorehead plays […]
Director Hal Ashby proves out of his depth with farce in this 1975 comedy but still great with actors and lots of good performances lift the smug, self-congratulatory and smutty screenplay. Naturally, of course, Warren […]
Director Walter Hill’s thrilling 1980 film version of the well-known, much told story of the Jesse James outlaw gang of bank robbers starts with the useful gimmick of four sets of actual brothers in the star parts […]