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The Big Sleep *** (1978, Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Richard Boone, James Stewart, Candy Clark, Joan Collins, Richard Boone, Edward Fox, John Mills, Oliver Reed, Harry Andrews, Richard Todd) – Classic Movie Review 742
Director Michael Winner’s 1978 reworking of Howard Hawks’s 1946 film noir masterpiece The Big Sleep with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall makes the twin cardinal errors of updating the yarn to the Seventies and misplacing […]
Apt Pupil **** (1998, Ian McKellen, Brad Renfro, Joshua Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 717
The 16-year-old Brad Renfro stars as teenager Todd Bowden, who suspects his neighbour Arthur Denker (played by Ian McKellen) of being a Nazi war criminal called Kurt Dussander. The lad starts a blackmail campaign against […]
Victim ***** (1961, Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Peter McEnery, Dennis Price, John Barrie) – Classic Movie Review 606
Encouragingly, Victim (1961) was popular, and made a profit. Better still, it was influential in changing attitudes and the laws in Britain regarding homosexuality. In 1961 closeted gay actor Dirk Bogarde took a huge risk […]
Blackmail ***** (1929, John Longden, Anny Ondra, Cyril Ritchard) – Classic Movie Review 444
Alfred Hitchcock’s lively, imaginative 1929 pioneering thriller film Blackmail is remarkable as Britain’s first talking picture. It’s a treasured relic of a bygone era. A highly impressive piece of work considering its age and filming […]
Dial M for Murder ***** (1954, Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, John Williams, Anthony Dawson) – Classic Movie Review 82
Alfred Hitchcock devises in 1954 what could be studied at film schools as a template for how to film a hit theatre play. Taking only 36 days to film it, Hitchcock transforms Frederick Knott’s once-famous 1952 single-set […]
The Big Sleep ***** (1946, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone, Regis Toomey, Charles Waldron, Charles D Brown, Elisha Cook Jr) – Classic Movie Review 69
Director Howard Hawks turns Raymond Chandler’s hardboiled novel The Big Sleep into a brilliantly atmospheric, edge-of-seat suspenseful and exciting film noir masterpiece. Humphrey Bogart is everyone’s idea of Chandler’s cynical anti-hero, the smooth, cocksure if […]