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- Call Her Savage ** (1932, Clara Bow, Gilbert Roland, Monroe Owsley) – Classic Movie Review 13,262
- Dangerous Cargo ** (1954, Jack Watling, Susan Stephen, Karel Stepanek, Terence Alexander) – Classic Movie Review 13,261
- Yossi *** (2012, Ohad Knoller, Oz Zehavi, Lior Ashkenazi) – Classic Movie Review 13,260
- The Return of the Whistler **½ (1948, Michael Duane, Lenore Aubert, Richard Lane) – Classic Movie Review 13,259
- Steamboat Round the Bend **** (1935, Will Rogers, Anne Shirley, Eugene Pallette) – Classic Movie Review 13,258
- In Old Kentucky *** (1935, Will Rogers, Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson, Dorothy Wilson, Russell Hardie, Louise Henry, Charles Sellon) – Classic Movie Review 13,257
- The Thirteenth Hour *** (1947, Richard Dix, Karen Morley, John Kellogg, Jim Bannon, Regis Toomey) – Classic Movie Review 13,256
- Guns of Darkness ** (1962, David Niven, Leslie Caron, James Robertson Justice, David Opatoshu) – Classic Movie Review 13,255
- Walk on Water **** (2004, Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters) – Classic Movie Review 13,254
- The Secret of the Whistler *** (1946, Richard Dix, Leslie Brooks, Michael Duane, Mary Currier, Mona Barrie, Claire Du Brey) – Classic Movie Review 13,253
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Mildred Pierce ***** (1945, Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Ann Blyth, Bruce Bennett)) – Classic Movie Review 375
Director Michael Curtiz’s 1945 classic Mildred Pierce is both a great ‘Woman’s Picture’ melodrama as well as a great film noir thriller. Triumphantly winning what turned out to be her only Best Actress Oscar, Joan Crawford […]
Blue Velvet ***** (1986, Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Dean Stockwell, George Dickerson) – Classic Movie Review 338
‘It’s a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaws out. This is the mighty W.O.O.D., the musical voice of Lumberton. At the sound of the falling tree, it’s 9:30. There’s a whole lotta […]
Red Rock West **** (1992, Nicolas Cage, Lara Flynn Boyle, Dennis Hopper, J T Walsh) – Classic Movie Review 336
Director John Dahl’s 1992 brilliantly quirky and twisty retro-film noir movie is a killer thriller to watch again and again. Lovingly crafted, it’s as menacing and scary as it is steamy. A pre-superstardom Nicolas Cage […]
Laura ***** (1944, Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson) – Classic Movie Review 335
‘The story of a love that became the most fearful thing that ever happened to a woman!’ Director Otto Preminger’s glorious 1944 romantic mystery thriller Laura in the best film noir vein still exerts its […]
After Dark, My Sweet **** (1990, Jason Patric, Rachel Ward, Bruce Dern) – Classic Film Review 332
‘When a man stops caring what happens, all the strain is lifted from him. Suspicion and worry and fear, all things that twist his thinking out of focus are brushed aside, and he can see […]
Road Kill (Joy Ride) **** (2002, Paul Walker, Steve Zahn, Leelee Sobieski) – Classic Movie Review 318
Director John Dahl’s scalding 2002 Duel-influenced chiller is an edge-of-seat, nightmarish thrill ride all the way. Paul Walker and Steve Zahn star as carefree, wisecracking brothers making a road trip across the country from Colarado to New […]
Hard Eight **** (1996, Philip Baker Hall, John C Reilly, Gwyneth Paltrow, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samuel L Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 316
Suspense, wit, atmosphere, sudden death and fine character study are the name of the game in writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson’s superb, stylish, hard-nosed 1996 thriller Hard Eight. Anderson’s feature debut is graced with the performance […]