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- Candidate for Murder ** (1962, Michael Gough, Erika Remberg, Hans von Borsody, John Justin) – Classic Movie Review 13,329
- Man Detained *** (1961, Bernard Archard, Elvi Hale, Paul Stassino, Michael Coles) – Classic Movie Review 13,328
- 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
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Torch Song *** (1953, Joan Crawford, Michael Wilding, Gig Young) – Classic Movie Review 3379
The MGM studio welcomes back its Thirties great contract star Joan Crawford after a decade away with director Charles Walters’s sometimes feeble, frequently daft 1953 soap opera. Nevertheless, it is quite enjoyable and can boast some […]
And Soon the Darkness *** (1970, Pamela Franklin, Michele Dotrice, Sandor Elès) – Classic Movie Review 3350
This tense and involving 1970 women in peril British chiller stars Pamela Franklin, Michele Dotrice and Sandor Elès. TV’s Avengers writer Brian Clemens and Dr Who writer Terry Nation pump some style into this creepy, […]
The Young Victoria **** (2009, Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany, Jim Broadbent, Julian Glover, Miranda Richardson, Mark Strong, Harriet Walter) – Classic Movie Review 3295
Emily Blunt and Rupert Friend are perfect as the young Queen Victoria and her prince consort Albert in this silver-spoon, velvet-plush, beautifully staged version of the little known story of the iron lady’s struggle for […]
Winter’s Bone **** (2010, Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Garret Dillahunt) – Classic Movie Review 3269
Writer-director Debra Granik scores a triumph with her scalding 2010 American independent feminist thriller, based on Daniel Woodrell’s 2006 novel. The 20-year-old Jennifer Lawrence sweeps to stardom as a teenage girl in the rural Ozark […]
Joy **** (2015, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Edgar Ramirez, Isabella Rossellini, Diane Ladd, Virginia Madsen) – Movie Review
An exceptional cast is assembled for Joy, the story of an Italian-American family across four generations and Joy Mangano, the young woman who rises to become founder and matriarch of a powerful family business dynasty. But Jennifer […]
Hands of the Ripper **** (1971, Eric Porter, Angharad Rees, Jane Merrow, Dora Bryan, Derek Godfrey, Keith Bell) – Classic Movie Review 3109
‘The Hands of Jack the Ripper Live Again… As His Fiendish Daughter Kills Again… And Again…And Again…’ Director Peter Sasdy’s 1971 Hammer Films British chiller Hands of the Ripper stars Angharad Rees as the beautiful […]
The Perfect Guy *** (2015, Sanaa Lathan, Michael Ealy, Morris Chestnut) – Movie Review
Director David M Rosenthal’s enjoyable dating-risks thriller boasts good characters, suspenseful situations, lots of mystery atmosphere and excellent performances, plus the required doses of violence, menace and sexuality. Sanaa Lathan stars as successful lobbyist Leah […]