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Lady Killer *** (1933, James Cagney, Mae Clarke, Margaret Lindsay) – Classic Movie Review 9621

Director Roy Del Ruth’s 1933 Warner Bros black and white crime comedy Lady Killer stars James Cagney as gangster Dan Quigley, who is on the run from the law but he washes up in the […]

Apr, 09

Detour *** (1992, Tom Neal Jr, Lea Lavish, Susanna Foster) – Classic Movie Review 9370

Director Wade Williams’s 1992 thriller Detour stars Tom Neal Jr, who plays his father Tom Neal’s old part in a quite effective, close colour remake of the 1945 black and white cult B-movie classic Detour, […]

Feb, 11

The House Across the Lake [Heat Wave] *** (1954, Alex Nicol, Hillary Brooke, Sidney James) – Classic Movie Review 9193

Writer-director Ken Hughes’s 1954 British Hammer Films black and white film noir triangle suspense crime drama The House Across the Lake [Heat Wave] is filmed and set in England, and stars Alex Nicol and Hillary […]

Dec, 27

Of Human Bondage ** (1946, Paul Henreid, Eleanor Parker, Alexis Smith, Edmund Gwenn, Patric Knowles, Janis Paige) – Classic Movie Review 9155

Director Edmund Goulding’s 1946 black and white film of W Somerset Maugham’s novel Of Human Bondage has the misfortune to follow director John Cromwell’s much more exciting 1934 version of Of Human Bondage with the […]

Dec, 14

Mortelle Randonnée [Deadly Run] [Deadly Circuit] **** (1983, Michel Serrault, Isabelle Adjani, Guy Marchand, Guy Marchand, Stéphane Audran, Macha Méril, Geneviève Page, Sami Frey) – Classic Movie Review 8680

Director Claude Miller’s 1983 Deadly Run [Mortelle Randonnée] is a riveting, ostentatiously showy French romantic crime mystery thriller with Isabelle Adjani starring as Catherine Leiris, a pathological serial killer whose trail of corpses is pursued […]

Jul, 06

The Unholy Wife ** (1957, Diana Dors, Rod Steiger, Tom Tryon, Beulah Bondi, Marie Windsor, Arthur Franz) – Classic Movie Review 8484

‘HALF-ANGEL……HALF-DEVIL, she made him HALF-A-MAN! ‘ After I Married a Woman, in August 1956 Diana Dors signed a contract with RKO Pictures to make three more movies, the first of which was the 1957 Technicolor film noir crime […]

May, 19

The Frightened City *** (1961, Herbert Lom, Sean Connery, John Gregson, Alfred Marks, Yvonne Romain, Patrick Holt, Kenneth Griffith) – Classic Movie Review 8052

The frightened city is London, where unexpectedly they are behaving just like in Chicago, as mobsters join a protection syndicate then fall out when gang boss Harry Foulcher (Alfred Marks) establishes a mafia of his […]

Jan, 23

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