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Michael Shayne: Private Detective ***½ (1940, Lloyd Nolan, Marjorie Weaver, Joan Valerie, Walter Abel) – Classic Movie Review 11,238

Lloyd Nolan stars as Brett Halliday’s wisecracking private detective Michael Shayne in the first of the actor’s seven 20th Century Fox support thrillers. Director Eugene Forde’s 1940 black and white mystery thriller Michael Shayne: Private […]

May, 24

Murder, He Says **** (1945, Fred MacMurray, Helen Walker, Marjorie Main) – Classic Movie Review 11,113

‘IT’LL KILL YOU… WITH LAUGHTER!’ Director George Marshall’s 1945 Paramount Pictures black and white comedy thriller Murder, He Says is a twisted and hilarious combination of high camp and extremely black humour that is funnier […]

Apr, 19

Marie-Octobre **** (1959, Danielle Darrieux, Bernard Blier, Serge Reggiani, Bernard Blier, Paul Meurisse, Noël Roquevert, Lino Ventura, Robert Dalban) – Classic Movie Review 10,864

‘Eight men and a woman… one betrayed the man Marie-Octobre really loved.’ Director Julien Duvivier’s 1959 black and white French drama Marie-Octobre [Secret Meeting] stars Danielle Darrieux, who is superb as Marie-Octobre in this gripping […]

Feb, 01

What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? *** (1966, James Coburn, Dick Shawn, Sergio Fantoni) – Classic Movie Review 10,284

Director Blake Edwards’s 1966 comedy What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? Is an amusing, lightly over-played satire about World War Two, as Lieutenant Christian (James Coburn) and Captain Cash (Dick Shawn) lead their […]

Sep, 09

Raffles **** (1930, Ronald Colman, Kay Francis, David Torrence, Bramwell Fletcher, Alison Skipworth) – Classic Movie Review 9,526

Ronald Colman’s suave charisma is perfect for E W Hornung’s cricketer and amateur cracksman A J Raffles in the crisp, fast moving and very entertaining 1930 first talkie version of the perennially popular crime mystery […]

Mar, 18

Come Back Charleston Blue *** (1972, Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St Jacques, Peter De Anda) – Classic Movie Review 9495

Come Back Charleston Blue is an underrated blaxploitation comedy crime action thriller from the first (Seventies) wave of black movies. Director Mark Warren’s 1972 sequel to Cotton Comes to Harlem (based on the Chester Himes […]

Mar, 11

Cotton Comes to Harlem *** (1970, Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St Jacques, Calvin Lockhart) – Classic Movie Review 9494

Director Ossie Davis’s 1970 comedy crime action thriller Cotton Comes to Harlem stars Godfrey Cambridge and Raymond St Jacques as black detectives Gravedigger Jones (Cambridge) and Coffin Ed Johnson (St Jacques). The two Harlem cops […]

Mar, 11

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