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Posts Tagged "british noir"

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The Six Men ** (1951, Harold Warrender, Olga Edwardes, Peter Bull, Michael Evans) – Classic Movie Review 13,410

Vandyke Productions’ 1951 British second feature crime film The Six Men stars Harold Warrender and Michael Evans as Scotland Yard detectives baffled by a gang’s daring crimes. Director Michael Law’s 1951 British second feature crime […]

Feb, 21

Nightbeat [Night Beat] * (1947, Anne Crawford, Maxwell Reed, Ronald Howard, Hector Ross, Christine Norden) – Classic Movie Review 12,778

Two dubious stories about Christine Norden. After she died in 1988, part of the planet Venus was named after her as a tribute to her status as Britain’s first postwar sex symbol. In 1967 she […]

Jan, 03

A Matter of Choice ** (1963, Anthony Steel, Jeanne Moody, Ballard Berkeley, Malcolm Gerard, Michael Davis) – Classic Movie Review 12,596

The implausible though engaging enough 1963 low-budget British noir drama film A Matter of Choice stars Anthony Steel and Jeanne Moody. Director Vernon Sewell said: ‘Oh it was a disaster… a bloody awful movie.’ Director […]

Jul, 28

Mantrap *** (1953, Paul Henreid, Lois Maxwell, Kieron Moore, Kay Kendall, Bill Travers) – Classic Movie Review 11,136

Terence Fisher’s suspenseful 1953 British crime film Mantrap [Man in Hiding] stars Paul Henreid as a lawyer detective who, helped by his secretary (Kay Kendall), tries to show that a man on the run (Kieron […]

Apr, 25

The Stranger Came Home [The Unholy Four ] ** (1954, Paulette Goddard, William Sylvester, Patrick Holt, Paul Carpenter, Russell Napier) – Classic Movie Review 11,132

‘What was the shock SIN of… THE UNHOLY FOUR’ Director Terence Fisher’s 1954 Hammer Films / Lippert Films British noir black and white mystery thriller The Stranger Came Home [The Unholy Four] is written by […]

Apr, 24

Cosh Boy *** (1953, James Kenney, Joan Collins, Betty Ann Davies, Robert Ayres, Hermione Baddeley, Hermione Gingold) – Classic Movie Review 11,116

‘Call me a gangster or a mobster… but not a delinquent!’ Director Lewis Gilbert’s 1953 British black and white noir drama Cosh Boy is quite bad – but with a really good cast, and it […]

Apr, 19

Murder by Proxy [Blackout] ** (1954, Dane Clark, Belinda Lee, Betty Ann Davies) – Classic Movie Review 11,082

‘EXPLODES… in a sinister network of evil!’ The 1954 British crime film noir Murder by Proxy [Blackout] stars Dane Clark as a down-and-out offered money to marry a beautiful young heiress (Belinda Lee).  ‘EXPLODES… in […]

Apr, 08

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