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- The Return of the Whistler **½ (1948, Michael Duane, Lenore Aubert, Richard Lane) – Classic Movie Review 13,259
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Jigsaw **** (1962, Jack Warner, Ronald Lewis, Yolande Donlan, Michael Goodliffe, John le Mesurier, Moira Redmond) – Classic Movie Review 7782
Writer-producer-director Val Guest’s 1962 British black and white noir-style crime film Jigsaw is a first-class old-fashioned whodunit with Jack Warner taking a busman’s holiday from his TV role as PC George Dixon in Dixon of Dock Green […]
Bloodline * (1979, Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, James Mason, Irene Papas, Romy Schneider, Omar Sharif, Gert Fröbe) – Classic Movie Review 7779
Audrey Hepburn was lured back to the screen after a three-year gap following Robin and Marian 1976) for director Terence Young’s thoroughly disappointing 1979 film version of Sidney Sheldon’s best-selling thriller Bloodline. She plays Elizabeth […]
Backfire *** (1950, Virginia Mayo, Gordon MacRae, Edmond O’Brien, Viveca Lindfors, Dane Clark, Ed Begley) – Classic Movie Review 7554
The 1950 film noir crime thriller Backfire is a satisfyingly complicated and labyrinthine murder mystery. Gordon MacRae stars as war vet searching for his framed murder-suspect buddy (Edmond O’Brien) and tangling with a femme fatale […]
Come Clean *** (1931, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch, Charlie Hall) – Classic Movie Review 7519
‘Mr Hardy holds that every husband should tell his wife the whole truth – Mr Laurel is crazy too.’ Director James W Horne 1931 comedy is a touching and sometimes hilarious Stan Laurel and Oliver […]
Naked Alibi *** (1954, Sterling Hayden, Gloria Grahame, Gene Barry) – Classic Movie Review 7,384
Sterling Hayden and Gene Barry are ideal, and so is noir favourite Gloria Grahame as bar singer Marianna, in the toughly cast, enjoyable little 1954 crime thriller Naked Alibi, with a good film noir atmosphere. […]
Bodyguard **** (1948, Lawrence Tierney, Priscilla Lane, Phillip Reed, Elizabeth Risdon) – Classic Movie Review 7122
Director Richard O Fleischer’s 1948 Bodyguard is a tough, taut and tense little Forties B-movie thriller, very fine of its type. It is an outstanding and excellently handled film noir who-done-it. Lawrence Tierney stars as […]
The Driver **** (1978, Ryan O’Neal, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Adjani) – Classic Movie Review 7,048
Walter Hill’s beautifully crafted, dazzlingly stylised 1978 film noir crime action thriller The Driver stars Ryan O’Neal at his melancholic brooding best as the sharpest getaway man in the robbery business. Writer-director Walter Hill’s second […]