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The Lone Wolf in London * (1947, Gerald Mohr, Nancy Saunders, Eric Blore, Evelyn Ankers) – Classic Movie Review 13,049
The 1947 American mystery crime film The Lone Wolf in London is the last Lone Wolf film starring Gerald Mohr, in which his detective character Michael Lanyard tackles the mystery of missing priceless diamonds. ‘HOW […]
Rhodes of Africa ** (1936, Walter Huston, Oskar Homolka, Basil Sydney, Peggy Ashcroft) – Classic Movie Review 10,529
Director Berthold Viertel’s 1936 British black and white biopic Rhodes of Africa [Rhodes] is a portrait of Cecil Rhodes, diamond and gold miner, British Empire builder and the father of Rhodesia, made at the time […]
Love Happy *** (1949, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Eric Blore, Ilona Massey, Marilyn Monroe, Vera-Ellen, Raymond Burr) – Classic Movie Review 9636
Harpo Marx takes centre stage for the Marx Brothers’ final movie together about mounting a Broadway show and foiling jewel thieves, in director David Miller’s 1949 black and white wisecracking comedy Love Happy [Kleptomaniacs]. Alas, there […]
Istanbul ** (1957, Errol Flynn, Cornell Borchers, John Bentley, Torin Thatcher, Leif Erickson, Martin Benson, Peggy Knudsen) – Classic Movie Review 7271
Director Joseph Pevney’s 1957 romantic espionage adventure crime drama Istanbul is a rehash of 1947’s Singapore, this time (obviously) relocated to Istanbul and starring Errol Flynn as pilot adventurer James Brennan deported for diamond smuggling but returning […]
The MacKintosh Man *** (1973, Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda, James Mason, Ian Bannen, Nigel Patrick, Michael Hordern, Peter Vaughan, Harry Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 6,037
Paul Newman stars as an undercover government agent hired to trap a spying British Member of Parliament (James Mason), in director John Huston’s quick-paced 1973 Cold War spy thriller film The MacKintosh Man. Paul Newman […]
Ladies in Retirement **** (1941, Ida Lupino, Louis Hayward, Evelyn Keyes, Elsa Lanchester, Isobel Elsom, Edith Barrett, Emma Dunn) – Classic Movie Review 4718
Isobel Elsom plays Mrs Leonora Fiske, a wealthy ex-actress, who lives at an isolated house in the East Anglia marshlands in the 1880s with just her younger housekeeper Ellen Creed (Ida Lupino). When Ellen’s two older, […]
Thief [Violent Streets] **** (1981, James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Willie Nelson, James Belushi, Robert Prosky, Dennis Farina) – Classic Movie Review 2714
Writer-director Michael Mann’s intriguing and involving 1981 neo-noir heist thriller Thief is his cinema début as director after the TV movie The Jericho Mile in 1979. It showcases a rich and riveting James Caan performance […]
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