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Dr Syn *** (1937, George Arliss, Margaret Lockwood, John Loder, Roy Emerton, Graham Moffatt) – Classic Movie Review 6624
George Arliss’s last movie sees him as Dr Syn, the 18th-century vicar of Dymchurch, Kent, by day but moonlighting as the notorious pirate Captain Clegg by night. Old-style actor Arliss gives an antique barnstorming performance […]
The Brink’s Job *** (1978, Peter Falk, Warren Oates, Peter Boyle, Allen Garfield, Gena Rowlands, Paul Sorvino) – Classic Movie Review 6,508
Director William Friedkin’s often exciting 1978 true crime heist movie The Brink’s Job is based on the real-life American ‘crime of the century’ in 1950 when nearly $3 million was snatched by amateurs in an […]
Thieves Like Us ***** (1974, Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall, John Schuck, Bert Remsen, Louise Fletcher, Tom Skerritt) – Classic Movie Review 6477
Edward Anderson’s 1937 novel Thieves Like Us forms the basis of two brilliant, contrasting films, and it was first filmed in 1949 as a beautiful poetic black-and-white film noir by Nicholas Ray as They Live by […]
A Scandal in Paris **** (1946, George Sanders, Signe Hasso, Carole Landis, Akim Tamiroff, Gene Lockhart) – Classic Movie Review 6302
Cult director Douglas Sirk’s intriguing 1946 film stars George Sanders performs with his usual easy elegance in this stylish, twisty and amusing comedy adventure about a notorious real-life 18th/ 19th-century French character called François-Eugène Vidocq. […]
Shooters * (2002, Adrian Dunbar, Louis Dempsey, Andrew Howard, Gerard Butler, Jason Hughes, Ioan Gruffudd, Matthew Rhys) – Classic Movie Review 6213
There is a great cast to give a lift to directors Glenn Durfort and Colin Teague’s grim, rough-hewn, and typically reprehensibly violent 2002 British-made gangster thriller movie, in which an Irish gang leader becomes embroiled […]
Berlin Alexanderplatz ***** (1980, Günter Lamprecht, Claus Holm, Hanna Schygulla, Gottfried John, Barbara Sukowa) – Classic Movie Review 6205
Writer-director Rainer Werner Fassbinder remakes Phil Jutzi’s German classic movie of 1931 and comes up with a towering monument of film-making in an inspired attempt to capture the entire essence of Alfred Döblin’s novel in […]
Dragnet *** (1987, Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks, Christopher Plummer, Harry Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 6177
Dan Aykroyd stars in and co-writes director Tom Mankiewicz’s amiable 1987 nostalgic film parody of Jack Webb’s great Fifties TV cop show (1951–1959) and 1954 movie Dragnet. Aykroyd plays Sgt Joe Friday’s bumbling nephew, who […]