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They Drive by Night **** (1938, Emlyn Williams, Ernest Thesiger, Anna Konstam, Allan Jeayes) – Classic Movie Review 8111

Director Arthur B Woods’s gritty, noirish 1938 vintage British black-and-white crime thriller They Drive by Night is taken from James Curtis’s 1938 novel, with the author as one of the screen-writers (screenplay and dialogue), along […]

Feb, 09

A Lady without Passport ** (1950, Hedy Lamarr, John Hodiak, James Craig, George Macready) – Classic Movie Review 8,041

Joseph H Lewis’s 1950 MGM black and white thriller film A Lady without Passport starring Hedy Lamarr and John Hodiak is a heady brew, mixing romantic adventure, film noir and crime drama. Director Joseph H […]

Jan, 21

Death at Broadcasting House *** [Death at a Broadcast] (1934, Ian Hunter, Austin Trevor, Henry Kendall, Jack Hawkins, Donald Wolfit, Elizabeth Welch) – Classic Movie Review 7994

Director Reginald Denham’s light-hearted 1934 British mystery thriller Death at Broadcasting House [Death at a Broadcast] is a sprightly BBC radio murder mystery in which an actor is strangled while broadcasting at Broadcasting House, the BBC’s […]

Jan, 09

Uptight *** (1968, Raymond St Jacques, Ruby Dee, Julian Mayfield, Frank Silvera, Roscoe Lee Brown, Janet MacLachlan, Max Julien, Juanita Moore) – Classic Movie Review 7991

Producer/director Jules Dassin boldly remakes John Ford’s 1935 classic The Informer in 1968 as Uptight, with an African American cast headed by Raymond St Jacques, Ruby Dee, Julian Mayfield, Frank Silvera, Roscoe Lee Brown, Janet […]

Jan, 07

Sandokan alla Riscossa [Sandokan Fights Back] ** (1964, Ray Danton, Guy Madison, Franca Bettoia) – Classic Movie Review 7969

For director Luigi Capuano’s 1964 Sandokan alla Riscossa [Sandokan Fights Back], Ray Danton and Guy Madison star in another episode of this intriguing Italian sword-and-sandal series, in which this time the prince Sandokan battles to […]

Jan, 01

Sandokan Against the Leopard of Sarawak [Return of Sandokan] ** (1964, Ray Danton, Franca Bettoia, Guy Madison, Mario Petri) – Classic Movie Review 7968

This time Ray Danton is again the heroic Sandokan, the sultan’s son who battles along with his buddy Yanez (Guy Madison), in director Luigi Capuano’s fervent, exotic and often exciting 1964 adventure spectacle from Italy, […]

Jan, 01

I Pirati della Malesia [The Pirates of Malaysia] ** (1964, Steve Reeves, Jacqueline Sassard, Mimmo Palmara) – Classic Movie Review 7967

The 1964 film The Pirates of Malaysia stars Steve Reeves, who fights back as Malaysian rebel Sandokan with a group of renegade pirates of Malaya, in this moderate but very tolerable sequel to his 1963 […]

Jan, 01

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