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Accidental Death ** (1963, John Carson, Jacqueline Ellis, Derrick Sherwin, Richard Vernon) – Classic Movie Review 12,936

The 1963 film Accidental Death is a minor and musty though still quite interesting black and white Edgar Wallace series British filler thriller, in which someone is up to a World War Two revenge murder. […]

Jun, 14

The Dance of Death *** (1969, Laurence Olivier, Geraldine McEwan, Robert Lang) – Classic Movie Review 11,644

Director David Giles’s 1969 drama The Dance of Death is a welcome film of the British National Theatre production of August Strindberg’s downbeat play Dödsdansen, with Laurence Olivier outstanding as the sick and malevolent artillery […]

Oct, 12

Vice Squad [The Girl in Room 17] ** (1953, Edward G Robinson, Paulette Goddard, K T Stevens, Porter Hall, Joan Vohs) – Classic Movie Review 11,270

Director Arnold Laven’s efficient and gripping 1953 documentary-style black and white film noir police procedural cop thriller Vice Squad [The Girl in Room 17] is a neat example of the genre then in vogue, and […]

Jun, 04

1969 *** (1988, Robert Downey Jr, Kiefer Sutherland, Bruce Dern, Mariette Hartley, Winona Ryder, Joanna Cassidy) – Classic Movie Review 10,793

Writer-director Ernest Thompson’s 1988 drama 1969 is a sincere and genial period piece, with appealing performances from the young Kiefer Sutherland and Robert Downey Jr as intelligent hippy Scott and his sensual best mate Ralph, […]

Jan, 15

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman *** (1982, Billie Whitelaw, Paul Freeman, Pippa Guard) – Classic Movie Review 10,444

Director Christopher Petit’s 1982 crime mystery thriller An Unsuitable Job for a Woman is an intriguing and largely successful if too tricksy film version of P D James’s twisting 1972 novel featuring her female detective […]

Oct, 21

From the Life of the Marionettes [Aus dem Leben der Marionetten] *** (1980, Robert Atzorn, Christine Buchegger, Martin Benrath) – Classic Movie Review 10,404

Writer-producer-director Ingmar Bergman’s 1980 From the Life of the Marionettes [Aus Dem Leben Der Marionetten] is a late, German-made Bergman cinema and TV film about a businessman Peter Egermann (Robert Atzorn) who strangles a prostitute […]

Oct, 12

Getting Away with Murder (1996, Jack Lemmon, Dan Aykroyd, Lily Tomlin) – Classic Movie Review 10,384

Writer-director Harvey Miller’s 1996 comedy Getting Away with Murder stars Dan Aykroyd, Lily Tomlin, Bonnie Hunt, Jack Lemmon and Brian Kerwin. Mild-mannered ethics professor Jack Lambert (Aykroyd) discovers his next-door neighbour is the notorious war […]

Oct, 04

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