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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
Posts Tagged "Film noir"
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Blood Simple ***** (1984, John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya, M Emmet Walsh) – Classic Movie Review 289
The Coen Brothers make their film debut in 1984 with the astonishing, thrillingly realised neo-noir thriller Blood Simple. Frances McDormand also makes her film debut and M Emmet Walsh stars as the double-crossing private detective. […]
Dead Man Down *** (2013, Colin Farrell, Noomi Rapace, Dominic Cooper, Isabelle Huppert, Terrence Howard) – Movie Review
The star and director of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo reunite for this efficient and competent 2013 gangland revenge thriller that delivers good genre thrills with a smart arty overlay without reaching any great […]
Cape Fear **** (1991, Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Juliette Lewis, Illeana Douglas, Joe Don Baker) – Classic Movie Review 177
Martin Scorsese boldly remakes J Lee Thompson’s much-admired 1962 thriller masterwork Cape Fear, based on John D MacDonald’s novel The Executioners. Scorsese has the right actor in mind in his regular star Robert De Niro, […]
Double Indemnity ***** (1944, Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G Robinson) – Classic Movie Review 164
Co-writer-director Billy Wilder’s 1944 black and white film noir thriller milestone Double Indemnity still plays beautifully whether on late-night TV or on cinema revivals. Hugely admired and much imitated, it is a sizzling movie masterpiece. […]
Touch of Evil ***** (1958, Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, Janet Leigh) – Classic Movie Review 144
‘He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people?’ Orson Welles’s dark, dangerous and dastardly thriller is set in a seedy town on the Mexican border. Charlton Heston […]
The Big Sleep ***** (1946, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone, Regis Toomey, Charles Waldron, Charles D Brown, Elisha Cook Jr) – Classic Movie Review 69
Director Howard Hawks turns Raymond Chandler’s hardboiled novel The Big Sleep into a brilliantly atmospheric, edge-of-seat suspenseful and exciting film noir masterpiece. Humphrey Bogart is everyone’s idea of Chandler’s cynical anti-hero, the smooth, cocksure if […]