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The Hucksters *** (1947, Clark Gable, Deborah Kerr, Sydney Greenstreet, Adolphe Menjou, Ava Gardner, Keenan Wynn, Edward Arnold) – Classic Movie Review 9489

Director Jack Conway’s 1947 MGM black and white romantic comedy drama The Hucksters stars a notable line-up in Clark Gable, Deborah Kerr, Sydney Greenstreet, Adolphe Menjou, Ava Gardner, Keenan Wynn and Edward Arnold, and is based […]

Mar, 09

The Thief Who Came to Dinner *** (1973, Ryan O’Neal, Jacqueline Bisset, Warren Oates, Jill Clayburgh, Charles Cioffi, Ned Beatty) – Classic Movie Review 9,450

The 1973 film The Thief Who Came to Dinner is an often sparkling caper thriller, with an on-form Ryan O’Neal as Webster McGee, a charming diamond thief playing cat and mouse with Warren Oates’s canny […]

Mar, 01

Vengeance Valley *** (1951, Burt Lancaster, Robert Walker, Joanne Dru, Sally Forrest, John Ireland, Hugh O’Brian, Ray Collins) – Classic Movie Review 9361

Director Richard Thorpe’s 1951 MGM movie Vengeance Valley is a capable, compact and substantial psychological Western, starring Burt Lancaster (as Owen Daybright) and Robert Walker (Lee Strobie) as rancher foster stepbrothers, one of whom (wicked […]

Feb, 09

$ [Dollars] [The Heist] **** (1971, Warren Beatty, Goldie Hawn, Gert Fröbe) – Classic Movie Review 9251

Writer-director Richard Brooks’s 1971 comedy crime drama film $ [Dollars] [The Heist] stars Warren Beatty as bank employee Joe Collins, who robs safe deposit boxes with the help of hooker Dawn Divine (Goldie Hawn). Brooks’s […]

Jan, 11

Love and Bullets ** (1979, Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Rod Steiger) – Classic Movie Review 9142

Director Stuart Rosenberg’s 1978 film Love and Bullets is a workmanlike Charles Bronson thriller in which Bronson’s character, the Phoenix, Arizona, cop Charlie Congers, is assigned to rescue Jackie Pruit (played as usual by Bronson’s […]

Dec, 09

A High Wind in Jamaica **** (1965, Anthony Quinn, James Coburn, Dennis Price, Lila Kedrova, Gert Fröbe, Nigel Davenport, Isabel Dean, Ben Carruthers) – Classic Movie Review 9,097

Aged 15, author Martin Amis played John Thornton in the 1965 DeLuxe Color adventure film A High Wind in Jamaica, an enchanting film version of the Richard Hughes novel. Young Martin Amis, now a famed best-selling […]

Nov, 25

City in Darkness [Charlie Chan in City in Darkness] ** (1939, Sidney Toler, Lynn Bari, Richard Clarke) – Classic Movie Review 9052

Director Herbert I Leeds’s 1939 comedy crime mystery thriller City in Darkness [Charlie Chan in City in Darkness] is a moderate, rather disappointing series episode. It wastes some top guest character actors and gets little […]

Nov, 03

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