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Footsteps in the Fog *** (1955, Stewart Granger, Jean Simmons, Bill Travers) – Classic Movie Review 9378
Director Arthur Lubin’s 1955 British noir Footsteps in the Fog is a solid Fifties British-made, Hitchcockian Suspicion-style thriller, with stylish acting from the then real-life husband-and-wife team Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons as the wife […]
Girl in the Headlines [The Model Murder Case] *** (1963, Ian Hendry, Ronald Fraser, Margaret Johnston, Jeremy Brett, Jane Asher) – Classic Movie Review 9334
Who killed Ursula Gray? Director Michael Truman’s 1963 British noir mystery thriller Girl in the Headlines [The Model Murder Case] stars Ian Hendry and Ronald Fraser, who make an appealing pair of investigators as Inspector […]
The October Man *** (1947, John Mills, Joan Greenwood, Edward Chapman) – Classic Movie Review 9147
Director Roy Ward Baker’s 1947 British noir crime drama The October Man is an acceptably delivered, very watchable British murder mystery, with a good role for John Mills as Jim Ackland, a brain-damaged amnesiac, afflicted […]
Tiger in the Smoke **** (1956, Donald Sinden, Muriel Pavlow, Tony Wright, Bernard Miles, Alec Clunes, Laurence Naismith) – Classic Movie Review 9024
Director Roy Ward Baker’s 1956 British black and white noir crime thriller Tiger in the Smoke is based on Margery Allingham’s 1952 novel The Tiger in the Smoke, and stars Donald Sinden, Muriel Pavlow, Tony Wright, […]
The Ship That Died of Shame [PT Raiders] *** (1955, Richard Attenborough, George Baker, Bill Owen, Virginia McKenna) – Classic Movie Review 8461
When World War Two is over, the crew of a gunboat buy their old boat and run smuggled goods across the English Channel into Britain, in director Basil Dearden’s 1955 Ealing Studios black and white […]
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 […]
Interpol [Pickup Alley] ** (1957, Victor Mature, Anita Ekberg, Trevor Howard, Bonar Colleano, Marne Maitland, Eric Pohlmann, Sydney Tafler, Sidney James, Lionel Murton, Danny Green, Yana) – Classic Movie Review 8013
Director John Gilling’s rather pedestrian and plodding 1957 British black and white action thriller Interpol [Pickup Alley] has few surprises and little atmosphere, but it is distinguished by the dominating presence of Trevor Howard, who […]