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Bureau of Missing Persons *** (1933, Bette Davis, Lewis Stone, Pat O’Brien, Glenda Farrell) – Classic Movie Review 6857
Director Roy Del Ruth’s 1933 Warner Bros crime melodrama quickly made thriller stars Bette Davis as Norma Roberts, who is looking for her husband, and then she is being sought by Chicago police for his murder. […]
Passport to Suez ** (1943, Warren William, Ann Savage, Eric Blore, Gavin Muir, Robert Stanford, Sheldon Leonard, Lloyd Bridges) – Classic Movie Review 6841
Director André De Toth’s 1943 thriller is a very passable, more than decently done Lone Wolf series entry, with Warren William back one more time in the last of his nine films as the jewel […]
The Presidio *** (1988, Sean Connery, Mark Harmon, Meg Ryan, Jack Warden) – Classic Movie Review 6795
Director Peter Hyams’s 1988 The Presidio is routine action stuff, though the movie is sparked up by Sean Connery’s gruffly winning performance and some lively chases. But just what happened to Larry Ferguson screenplay? It […]
Murder by Death **** (1976, Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, James Coco, Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, Elsa Lanchester, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Maggie Smith, Nancy Walker, Estelle Winwood) – Classic Movie Review 6788
Director Robert Moore’s clever and witty 1976 comedy parodies a number of famous detectives, with Peter Sellers indulging himself as Sidney Wang in a spoof of Charlie Chan, Peter Falk as Sam Diamond in a spoof […]
The Princess Comes Across **** (1936, Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Douglass Dumbrille) – Classic Movie Review 6,759
Paramount Pictures’ stupendous 1936 romantic comedy mystery movie The Princess Comes Across again stars the hit pair of Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray on their best form. Director William K Howard’s stupendous 1936 Paramount Pictures’ […]
Beverly Hills Cop II ** (1987, Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Jürgen Prochnow, Ronnie Cox, Allen Garfield, Brigitte Nielsen, Dean Stockwell) – Classic Movie Review 6650
Eddie Murphy’s energy and charm are severely tested on director Tony Scott’s extremely inferior 1987 sequel to 1984’s great hit Beverly Hills Cop. Predictably, Scott mostly dumps the original’s comedy element in favour of unsubtle strong […]
Violent Cop [Sono otoko, kyôbô ni tsuki] ***** (1989, Takeshi Kitano, Maiko Kawakami, Makoto Ashikawa, Shirô Sano) – Classic Movie Review 6527
Takeshi Kitano’s highly promising director debut shows much of the sharp and quirky style that was to come to its acme in Sonatine (1993). Kitano’s taut and exciting 1989 Japanese film has a relentless pace that suddenly […]