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The Long Haul *** (1957, Victor Mature, Diana Dors, Patrick Allen) – Classic Movie Review 7006

‘Mobsters invade teamsters!’ Co-writer/ director Ken Hughes’s robust and solid 1957 British black and white B-movie noir crime thriller drama film The Long Haul stars Victor Mature, Diana Dors and Patrick Allen. Hughes’s screenplay is […]

May, 06

Good Time Girl *** (1948, Jean Kent, Dennis Price, Flora Robson, Griffith Jones, Herbert Lom, Bonar Colleano, Diana Dors) – Classic Movie Review 6978

Director David MacDonald’s 1948 British noir thriller Good Time Girl stars Jean Kent as a slum slut called Gwen Rawlings, who escapes from her young offenders’ prison, joins some crooks, kills a copper in a […]

Apr, 29

A Prize of Arms *** (1962, Stanley Baker, Tom Bell, Helmut Schmid, John Phillips, Tom Adams, Anthony Bate, Rodney Bewes) – Classic Movie Review 6327

The perfect crime goes astray- like it always does in the movies –  in director Cliff Owen’s 1961 realist British noir thriller starring Stanley Baker as Turpin, a dismissed army captain who plots revenge on […]

Nov, 27

Mine Own Executioner **** (1947, Burgess Meredith, Kieron Moore, Dulcie Gray, Barbara White, Christine Norden) – Classic Movie Review 5854

‘There’s nothing worse than a man who makes you take off your self-respect and keep your clothes on.’ Anthony Kimmins’s 1947 British film noir thriller of Nigel Balchin’s distinguished novel Mine Own Executioner is deservedly […]

Aug, 04

Time without Pity **** (1957, Michael Redgrave, Alec McCowen, Leo McKern, Ann Todd, Peter Cushing) – Classic Movie Review 5,844

Michael Redgrave stars in Joseph Losey’s 1957 film noir Time without Pity as a hard-drinking dad, who, in the middle of a drying-out phase, comes to London to see if he can find out anything […]

Aug, 02

Yield to the Night [Blonde Sinner] **** (1956, Diana Dors, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig) – Classic Movie Review 5746

Director J Lee Thompson’s 1956 British anti-capital punishment drama Yield to the Night stars the hitherto cheesecake star Diana Dors, who copes extremely creditably, indeed admirably, with a big serious dramatic role as Mary Price […]

Jul, 12

So Long at the Fair ***½ (1950, Jean Simmons, Dirk Bogarde, David Tomlinson, Marcel Poncin, Cathleen Nesbitt, Honor Blackman, Felix Aylmer, Austin Trevor) – Classic Movie Review 4,600

Jean Simmons stars as Vicky Barton, a British visitor to France who is naturally frantic when her brother Johnny (David Tomlinson) disappears without any kind of trace from their Parisian hotel during the Paris Exposition […]

Nov, 06

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