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Hell Is a City ***½ (1959, Stanley Baker, John Crawford, Donald Pleasence, Maxine Audley, Billie Whitelaw, Warren Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 3461
Stanley Baker finds a strong vehicle in Hammer Films’ unusually energetic, atmospheric and swift-moving 1959 vintage crime thriller Hell Is a City, atmospherically shot largely on exteriors in Manchester, and topped of with an exciting, […]
Ten Little Indians ** (1989, Donald Pleasence, Frank Stallone, Sarah Maur Thorp, Brenda Vaccaro, Herbert Lom, Moira Lister, Neil McCarthy) – Classic Movie Review 3262
Director Alan Birkinshaw’s just acceptable British 1989 thriller is the fourth of the four movie versions of Agatha Christie’s famous whodunit detective novel about 10 people invited by a mysterious stranger to an isolated location […]
Vampire in Venice [Nosferatu a Venezia] ** (1988, Klaus Kinski, Christopher Plummer, Donald Pleasence, Barbara De Rossi) – Classic Movie Review 3156
Klaus Kinski resurrects his role as the infamous vampire Nosferatu in writer-director Augusto Caminito’s visually impressive semi-sequel to Werner Herzog’s 1979 Nosferatu the Vampyre. In the story by Alberto Alfieri and Leandro Lucchetti, a splendidly […]
Tales That Witness Madness ** (1973, Donald Pleasence, Jack Hawkins, Georgia Brown, Donald Houston, Russell Lewis, David Wood, Suzy Kendall, Peter McEnery, Joan Collins, Michael Jayston, Kim Novak) – Classic Movie Review 3113
‘It happens beyond madness – where your mind won’t believe what your eyes see.’ The follow-up to Vault of Horror (1973), director Freddie Francis’s 1973 all-star British horror movie is a shaky Amicus portmanteau film […]
The Hands of Orlac *** (1960, Mel Ferrer, Dany Carrel, Christopher Lee, Donald Wolfit, Felix Aylmer, Basil Sydney, Donald Pleasence) – Classic Movie Review 3110
The 1960 Anglo-French horror movie The Hands of Orlac is an intriguing third film of the famous Maurice Renard novel. Co-writer/director Edmond T Gréville’s 1960 Anglo-French horror movie The Hands of Orlac is an intriguing […]
The Count of Monte Cristo *** (1975, Richard Chamberlain, Tony Curtis, Trevor Howard, Donald Pleasence, Louis Jourdan) – Classic Movie Review 3004
A dashing Richard Chamberlain swashes a merry buckle as Edmond Dantès, falsely sentenced to incarceration for life in the scary Chateau D’If jail, in screenwriter Sidney Carroll’s conscientious, literate and fairly faithful adaptation of the […]
Cul-De-Sac **** (1966, Donald Pleasence, Françoise Dorléac, Lionel Stander, Jack MacGowran) – Classic Movie Review 2548
Lionel Stander and Jack MacGowran star as bumbling crooks on the lam in co-writer/director Roman Polanski’s startling, humorous and strange British black comedy shocker. The duo, one wounded and the other dying, take refuge at the Holy Island […]