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Dick Barton – Special Agent ** (1948, Don Stannard, George Ford, Gillian Maude, Jack Shaw, Geoffrey Wincott) – Classic Movie Review 4713

‘It’s no use Betsy, I can’t stand it any longer, I’m going out to look for Dick.’ Co-writer/ director Alfred Goulding’s 1948 British thriller stars Don Stannard as British Government Special Agent Dick Barton. Edward […]

Nov, 28

The 39 Steps *** (1959, Kenneth More, Taina Elg, Brenda de Banzie, Sidney James, Reginald Beckwith, James Hayter, Barry Jones, Faith Brook, Duncan Lamont) – Classic Movie Review 4490

Kenneth More does nicely in a smooth turn in the star part of Richard Hannay in director Ralph Thomas’s careful 1959 second screen version of John Buchan’s classic 1915 espionage novel. Hannay goes on the run […]

Oct, 19

I Spy ** (2002, Eddie Murphy, Owen Wilson, Malcolm McDowell, Famke Janssen) – Classic Movie Review 4207

Eddie Murphy and Owen Wilson play the Sixties TV show characters in director Betty Thomas’s mild, slackly made 2002 action comedy that runs like a poor copy of a Bond movie. Wilson is his usual […]

Aug, 20

Central Intelligence ** (2016, Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Danielle Nicolet, Amy Ryan, Jason Bateman, Aaron Paul) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Rawson Marshall Thurber’s harmless, raucous, lowbrow, awfully silly 2016 buddy movie pairs Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart. If you really love both of them, that will be the good news. They’re the current Little and […]

Jun, 22

Little Red Monkey ***½ (1955, Richard Conte, Rona Anderson, Russell Napier) – Classic Movie Review 3,890

‘THE IMPOSSIBLE CRIME. THRILLER OF THRILLERS’ Ken Hughes’s 1955 British black and white crime film Little Red Monkey is a complex, very nifty, and extremely enjoyable little Cold War espionage thriller. Richard Conte and Rona […]

Jun, 19

Night People *** (1954, Gregory Peck, Broderick Crawford, Anita Björk, Rita Gam, Walter Abel, Buddy Ebsen) – Classic Movie Review 3498

Producer-writer-director Nunnally Johnson’s nimble and nifty 1954 Cold War suspense thriller Night People stars Gregory Peck, Broderick Crawford, Anita Björk, Rita Gam, Walter Abel and Buddy Ebsen, who greatly help to enliven the story about the […]

Mar, 24

The Falcon’s Brother **½ (1942, George Sanders, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph, Keye Luke, Don Barclay, Cliff Clark) – Classic Movie Review 3209

A tale of two Falcons: with so much going on, there is never a dull moment in The Falcon’s Brother. Director Stanley Logan’s 1942 black and white B-movie thriller The Falcon’s Brother again stars George […]

Jan, 01

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