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Escape by Night ** (1953, Bonar Colleano, Andrew Ray, Sidney James, Ted Ray) – Classic Movie Review 12,571
The moderately successful if dour 1953 British crime thriller film Escape by Night stars Sid James as Gino Rossi, an Italian sex-racket crime boss on the run. Writer-director John Gilling’s 1953 British black and white […]
The Undercover Man **** (1949, Glenn Ford, Nina Foch, Barry Kelley, James Whitmore, Howard St John) – Classic Movie Review 11,879
Cult director Joseph H Lewis’s deservedly admired 1949 American Columbia Pictures black and white film noir gangster drama The Undercover Man tells the story of undercover men trying to end the US organised crime activities of a […]
Hard Men (1996, Vincent Regan, Lee Ross, Ross Boatman, ‘Mad’ Frankie Fraser, Ken Campbell, Mirella D’Angelo) – Classic Movie Review 11,535
Writer-director J K Amalou’s 1996 British crime gangster black comedy film Hard Men is an appalling British ‘homage’ to Quentin Tarantino, in which a vicious London gangland crime boss Pops Den (played by former real-life hard man “Mad” Frankie […]
Q & A **** (1990, Nick Nolte, Timothy Hutton, Armand Assante) – Classic Movie Review 8092
Nick Nolte gives a spellbinding performance as a raging New York cop called Mike Brennan under investigation by nice young assistant district attorney Al Reilly (Timothy Hutton) for killing a Hispanic drug dealer in writer-director […]
The Lineup **** (1958, Eli Wallach, Robert Keith, Warner Anderson, Richard Jaeckel, Emile Meyer) – Classic Movie Review 7611
Director Don Siegel’s taut, tough-toned and witty 1958 B-movie film noir police procedural crime thriller The Lineup, a big-screen version of the hit 1954-60 TV series The Lineup aka San Francisco Beat, is a credit […]
Rogue Cop **** (1954, Robert Taylor, George Raft, Janet Leigh, Steve Forrest, Anne Francis) – Classic Movie Review 7265
Director Roy Rowland’s 1954 black and white Rogue Cop is a commendably taut, tough film noir thriller with a neat story and an ideal, well deployed cast. John F Seitz was Oscar nominated for Best Cinematography, […]
Blame it on the Bellboy *** (1992, Dudley Moore, Bryan Brown, Richard Griffiths, Patsy Kensit) – Classic Movie Review 5914
Debut writer-director Mark Herman’s fast and funny 1992 screwball comedy is amusingly written, briskly directed and feistily performed. Dudley Moore stars in this farcical comedy about three guests with similar names staying at a Venice […]