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- The Return of the Whistler **½ (1948, Michael Duane, Lenore Aubert, Richard Lane) – Classic Movie Review 13,259
- Steamboat Round the Bend **** (1935, Will Rogers, Anne Shirley, Eugene Pallette) – Classic Movie Review 13,258
- In Old Kentucky *** (1935, Will Rogers, Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson, Dorothy Wilson, Russell Hardie, Louise Henry, Charles Sellon) – Classic Movie Review 13,257
- The Thirteenth Hour *** (1947, Richard Dix, Karen Morley, John Kellogg, Jim Bannon, Regis Toomey) – Classic Movie Review 13,256
- Guns of Darkness ** (1962, David Niven, Leslie Caron, James Robertson Justice, David Opatoshu) – Classic Movie Review 13,255
- Walk on Water **** (2004, Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters) – Classic Movie Review 13,254
- The Secret of the Whistler *** (1946, Richard Dix, Leslie Brooks, Michael Duane, Mary Currier, Mona Barrie, Claire Du Brey) – Classic Movie Review 13,253
- Kiss the Boys Goodbye **½ (1941, Don Ameche, Mary Martin, Oscar Levant) – Classic Movie Review 13,252
- Forbidden Cargo ** (1954, Nigel Patrick, Elizabeth Sellars, Terence Morgan, Jack Warner, Greta Gynt, Joyce Grenfell, Theodore Bikel) – Classic Movie Review 13,251
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Jigsaw **** (1962, Jack Warner, Ronald Lewis, Yolande Donlan, Michael Goodliffe, John le Mesurier, Moira Redmond) – Classic Movie Review 7782
Writer-producer-director Val Guest’s 1962 British black and white noir-style crime film Jigsaw is a first-class old-fashioned whodunit with Jack Warner taking a busman’s holiday from his TV role as PC George Dixon in Dixon of Dock Green […]
Dirty Weekend * (1993, Lia Williams, Rufus Sewell, Michael Cule, Sylvia Syms, David McCallum, Ian Richardson, Sean Pertwee) – Classic Movie Review 7772
Director Michael Winner’s unpleasant 1993 British movie Dirty Weekend turns Helen Zahavi’s praised feminist book into a female version of Winner’s own Death Wish movies, in which Lia Williams stars as Bella, a woman justly […]
Bank Holiday **** (1938, Margaret Lockwood, Hugh Williams, John Lodge, Wally Patch, Kathleen Harrison, René Ray, Linden Travers) – Classic Movie Review 6972
Director Carol Reed’s 1938 British Gainsborough Pictures black and white movie Bank Holiday is a highly engaging, expertly done, trailblazing documentary-style comedy drama about assorted London folk on a trip to sunny seaside town Bexborough […]
Brighton Rock *** (2010, Sam Riley, John Hurt, Andrea Riseborough, Phil Davis, Andy Serkis, Helen Mirren) – Classic Movie Review 3972
Sam Riley, from Control (2007), is ideally cast as teenage gangster Pinkie Brown, a psychotic petty hoodlum at large in post-war Brighton, in director Rowan Joffe’s intriguing 2010 remake of the 1947 classic thriller Brighton Rock, […]
Down Terrace ** (2009, Robin Hill, Robert Hill, Julia Deakin) – Classic Movie Review 3845
A Brighton crime family of small-time, drug-supplier crooks try to unmask a police informer who sent the father and son to jail in this cheaply made Brit black-comedy crime drama thriller, ingeniously filmed almost entirely […]
The Gay Divorcee ***** (1934, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes, Eric Blore) – Classic Movie Review 2955
Director Mark Sandrich’s enchanting 1934 musical stars the magical duo of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, who are an unalloyed delight in their initial star pairing after their success together in supporting roles in Flying […]
Pink String and Sealing Wax **** (1945, Googie Withers, Mervyn Johns, Gordon Jackson, Sally Ann Howes, Mary Merrall, Garry Marsh, John Carol) – Classic Movie Review 2824
Ealing Studios’ 1945 British thriller film Pink String and Sealing Wax, set in 1880s Victorian Brighton, is most atmospheric and entertaining. Googie Withers stars as Pearl Bond, the scheming, adulterous wife of a pub owner […]