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Crack-Up *** (1936, Peter Lorre, Brian Donlevy, Helen Wood, Ralph Morgan, Thomas Beck, Kay Linaker) – Classic Movie Review 3.322

Director Malcolm St Clair’s tense and entertaining 1936 espionage thriller film Crack-Up stars Peter Lorre as Colonel Gimpy, a ruthless spy boss whose organisation of dastardly foreign spies is trying to get its hands on the […]

Feb, 04

Quatermass 2 [Enemy from Space] *** (1957, Brian Donlevy, John Longden, Sidney James, Bryan Forbes, Vera Day) – Classic Movie Review 3165

American star Brian Donlevy is back to reprise his sombre performance as the troubled rocket scientist Professor Bernard Quatermass in the second in Hammer Films’ trio of screen versions of Nigel Kneale’s classic 1950s BBC serials. This […]

Dec, 17

The Quatermass Xperiment [The Creeping Unknown] *** (1955, Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Margia Dean, Gordon Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 3164

The Quatermass Xperiment is notable as Hammer’s first venture into horror movies, and the first X-certificate movie from a British company. Director Val Guest’s 1955 first spin-off from Nigel Kneale’s BBC TV serials is a […]

Dec, 17

Hangmen Also Die! *** (1943, Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee) – Classic Movie Review 2,637

Fritz Lang’s 1943 real-life film noir thriller film Hangmen Also Die! is based on the events of the previous year, in which the invaded country’s Nazi administrator was shot by unidentified Czech resistance fighters on […]

Jun, 25

The Great McGinty **** (1940, Brian Donlevy, Akim Tamiroff, William Demarest, Muriel Angelus) – Classic Movie Review 2624

Writer-director Preston Sturges grabs his first chance to direct a movie in a project from his own screenplay that went on to win the Academy Award for Best Writing Original Screenplay. He sold the story […]

Jun, 21

The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek ***** (1944, Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn, William Demarest, Porter Hall, Brian Donlevy, Akim Tamiroff) – Classic Movie Review 2622

Writer-producer-director Preston Sturges’s much-loved 1944 screwball comedy The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek is one of his handful of great cinema classics. Sturges’s funny, frantic and tasteless attack on many of America’s most sacred cows from […]

Jun, 21

The Big Combo **** (1955, Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy, Jean Wallace) – Classic Movie Review 2,569

Joseph H Lewis’s classic 1955 B-movie film noir thriller The Big Combo is ultra-tough for its day. It pushed a few boundaries and got into censorship problems with its slant on a regulation tale about […]

Jun, 07

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