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Out of the Fog **** (1941, Ida Lupino, John Garfield, Thomas Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 10,274

Warner Bros’ skilful and atmospheric 1941 film noir crime drama Out of the Fog stars John Garfield, Ida Lupino and Thomas Mitchell.  Director Anatole Litvak’s 1941 Warner Bros film noir crime thriller Out of the […]

Sep, 07

We Were Strangers *** (1949, Jennifer Jones, John Garfield, Pedro Armendáriz, Ramon Novarro, Gilbert Roland) – Classic Movie Review 9961

Director John Huston’s 1949 We Were Strangers stars John Garfield as Tony Fenner, who helps a 1930s Cuba plot to overthrow the tyrannical and despotic government of President Machado by blowing up a cemetery at […]

Jun, 26

Dangerous Money * (1946, Sidney Toler, Gloria Warren, Victor Sen Yung, Rick Vallin) – Classic Movie Review 9068

Director Terry O Morse’s 1946 comedy crime mystery thriller Dangerous Money is a disappointingly poor and predictable Charlie Chan episode, with a lack of the required pace and tension, as Chan (Sidney Toler) and Number two […]

Nov, 13

Black Magic [Charlie Chan in Black Magic] * (1944, Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Frances Chan, Jacqueline de Wit, Claudia Dell) – Classic Movie Review 9054

Director Phil Rosen’s 1944 thriller Black Magic [Charlie Chan in Black Magic] [Meeting at Midnight] is a weak Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) mystery about the Oriental Detective probing a séance killing. Toler carries on regardless, […]

Nov, 04

Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat [The Chinese Cat] ** (1944, Sidney Toler, Joan Woodbury, Mantan Moreland) – Classic Movie Review 9053

Sidney Toler stars once again in Phil Rosen’s 1944 murder thriller Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat [The Chinese Cat] as Earl Derr Biggers’ oriental detective Charlie Chan, who this time is in hot pursuit […]

Nov, 03

The Tamarind Seed *** (1974, Julie Andrews, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quayle, Oskar Homolka, Sylvia Syms, Dan O’Herlihy) – Classic Movie Review 8628

Writer-director Blake Edwards’s enjoyable 1974 movie The Tamarind Seed is a handsome production, with sprightly direction, and the super, pleasing stars convert Evelyn Anthony’s novel into an attractive, appealing romantic, spy thriller movie. As usual, […]

Jun, 23

None But the Brave *** (1965, Frank Sinatra, Clint Walker, Tommy Sands, Tony Bill, Brad Dexter, Tatsuya Mihashi) – Classic Movie Review 7075

Frank Sinatra directs himself for the first time in this quality 1965 World War Two war drama about a platoon of US Marines who crash-land on a tiny far-off island in the Pacific, where they […]

May, 21

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