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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

The Oklahoma Woman *** (1956, Richard Denning, Peggie Castle, Cathy Downs, Mike Connors) – Classic Movie Review 7732

‘RIPPED BY RAW VIOLENCE!’ The Oklahoma Woman (1956) is the third of Roger Corman’s interesting series of four low-budget Fifties Westerns. Richard Denning stars the ex-convict gunslinger Steve Ward, who returns to Oklahoma after six […]

Oct, 31

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