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No Way to Treat a Lady **** (1968, Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, George Segal) – Classic Movie Review 2734

Lee Remick plays Kate Palmer, Segal’s bewildered gentile girlfriend, who unfortunately attracts a serial killer (Rod Steiger)’s evil attentions, in director Jack Smight’s tense, clever and extremely creepy 1968 black comedy thriller. Remick had everything […]

Jul, 24

The Murders in the Rue Morgue *** (1986, George C Scott, Rebecca De Mornay, Ian McShane, Neil Dickson, Val Kilmer) – Classic Movie Review 2683

The fifth film of Edgar Allan Poe’s gory horror story is once again set in 19th century Paris. It is tautly and imaginatively handled by director Jeannot Szwarc in 1986. And it is greatly enlivened […]

Jul, 09

The Thief Lord **** (2006, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jasper Harris, Rollo Weeks, Jim Carter, Alexei Sayle, Vanessa Redgrave, George MacKay, Carole Boyd) – Classic Movie Review 2604

Co-writer/director Richard Claus adapts Cornelia Funke’s children’s novel (published in Germany in 2000 and translated into English by Oliver Latsch in 2002) into a highly engaging, great-looking family fantasy adventure film in 2006. Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Jasper Harris star […]

Jun, 15

D.O.A. **** (1950, Edmond O’Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler, Neville Brand, Beverly Garland) – Classic Movie Review 2565

Director Rudolph Maté’s invigorating 1950 film noir crime thriller is a well-deserved long-term cult classic, and was remade in 1988 starring Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan as D.O.A. It starts off with dead on arrival […]

Jun, 07

Madigan **** (1968, Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Harry Guardino, Inger Stevens, James Whitmore, Susan Clark, Steve Ihnat, Don Stroud, Sheree North) – Classic Movie Review 2564

Director Don Siegel’s exciting 1968 police thriller Madigan stars the 57-year-old Richard Widmark, who gives a most compelling star turn as the tough New York City detective of the title, who sets out with his […]

Jun, 07

Satan Met a Lady *** (1936, Bette Davis, Warren William, Alison Skipworth, Marie Wilson, Arthur Treacher, Winifred Shaw, Porter Hall) – Classic Movie Review 2466

  When Warner Bros tried to re-release its pre-Code 1931 film of The Maltese Falcon early in 1936, the Production Code Office was censoring movies and it refused approval due to the film’s supposedly ‘lewd’ content. So, with censorship […]

May, 09

The Maltese Falcon **** (1931, Bebe Daniels, Ricardo Cortez, Dudley Digges, Thelma Todd, Dwight Frye) – Classic Movie Review 2,465

Warner Bros’ 1931 thriller The Maltese Falcon is the first film of Dashiell Hammett’s famous crime novel. Ricardo Cortez stars as the wisecracking, cynical San Francisco gumshoe Sam Spade, who sets off on the trail […]

May, 09

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