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- Hand in Hand *** (1960, Loretta Parry, Philip Needs, Sybil Thorndike, John Gregson, Finlay Currie, Derek Sydney, Miriam Karlin, Kathleen Byron) – Classic Movie Review 13,327
- Attempt to Kill ** (1961, Tony Wright, Derek Farr, Richard Pearson, Freda Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 13,326
- A Hitch in Time *** (1978, Patrick Troughton, Michael McVey, Pheona McLellan, Jeff Rawle, Sorcha Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 13,325
- Man at the Carlton Tower *** (1961, Maxine Audley, Lee Montague, Alfred Burke, Allan Cuthbertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,324
- Beyond the Door [Chi Sei?] [The Devil Within Her] * (1974, Juliet Mills, Richard Johnson, Gabriele Lavia, Elizabeth Turner, David Colin Jr) – Classic Movie Review 13,323
- Beyond the Door II [Schock] *** (1979, Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, David Colin Jr, Ivan Rassimov) – Classic Movie Review 13,322
- Blood Red ** (1989, Eric Roberts, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Hopper, Burt Young) – Classic Movie Review 13,321
- The Fourth Square *** (1961, Conrad Phillips, Natasha Parry, Delphi Lawrence, Miriam Karlin, Jacqueline Jones, Anthony Newlands, Basil Dignam, Harold Kasket) – Classic Movie Review 13,316
- Black Memory *** (1947, Michael Atkinson, Michael Medwin, Myra O’Connell, Jane Arden, Frank Hawkins) – Classic Movie Review 13,320
- The Velvet Touch **** (1948, Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Sydney Greenstreet, Claire Trevor, Leon Ames, Frank McHugh, Walter Kingsford) – Classic Movie Review 13,319
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The Return of Monte Cristo [Monte Cristo’s Revenge] *** (1946, Louis Hayward, George Macready, Barbara Britton ) – Classic Movie Review 11,712
Director Henry Levin’s 1946 The Return of Monte Cristo [Monte Cristo’s Revenge] stars Louis Hayward, who is ideal (again) as Edmond Dantès Jr, the Count of Monte Cristo’s grandson, who is wrongfully convicted of a […]
Dreyfus [The Dreyfus Case] *** (1931, Cedric Hardwicke, George Merritt, Charles Carson, Sam Livesey, Garry Marsh, Randle Ayrton, George Zucco) – Classic Movie Review 6142
Cedric Hardwicke stars as the real-life French-Jewish officer Captain Alfred Dreyfus, who is accused and convicted of spying in 1890s France, after German staff had forged evidence to convict him, ending up doing life on […]
Devil’s Island [Song of Hell] *** (1939, Boris Karloff, James Stephenson, Nedda Harrigan) – Classic Movie Review 5629
Director William Clemens’s searing, realistic and revelatory 1939 drama stars Boris Karloff who gives a splendidly full-blooded performance as Dr Charles Gaudet, a brain surgeon condemned to the dreaded French Devil’s Island penal colony for […]
Passage to Marseille ***½ (1944, Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Michèle Morgan, Helmut Dantine) – Classic Movie Review 3880
Director Michael Curtiz’s propaganda-driven 1944 wartime thriller provides a slightly bumpy passage despite the first-class passengers, including the welcome reunion of five of the stars of Casablanca (1942) – Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre […]
We’re No Angels *** (1955, Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Aldo Ray, Leo G Carroll, Joan Bennett, Basil Rathbone) – Classic Movie Review 3362
Director Michael Curtiz’s likeable but insubstantial 1955 Technicolor comedy, crime, romance movie We’re No Angels is cosy, kind-hearted, larkish entertainment, motoring almost entirely on its considerable star appeal. Humphrey Bogart plays Joseph, a prisoner who escapes at […]
Strange Cargo *** (1940, Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Ian Hunter, Peter Lorre, Paul Lukas, Albert Dekker, Eduardo Ciannelli) – Classic Movie Review 3254
Producer-director Frank Borzage’s strange but stirring 1940 adventure movie Strange Cargo sees Clark Gable and Joan Crawford pairing up for the eighth time. However, the main story is about a breakout from a South America […]
The Life of Emil Zola **** (1937, Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard, Joseph Schildkraut, Gloria Holden, Donald Crisp, Vladimir Sokoloff, Louis Calhern) – Classic Movie Review 3131
Emil Zola: ‘I shall tell the truth. Because if I did not, my nights would be haunted by the spectre of an innocent man expiating under the most frightful torture a crime he never committed.’ […]