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Color Me Dead * (1969, Tom Tryon, Carolyn Jones, Rick Jason) – Classic Movie Review 6677

Producer-director Eddie Davis’s 1969 Australian remake of the 1950 film noir classic D.O.A. stars Tom Tryon as Frank Bigelow, an accountant who finds he has taken a slow-working deadly poison and must track down his […]

Feb, 11

Wall of Noise *** (1963, Suzanne Pleshette, Ty Hardin, Dorothy Provine, Ralph Meeker, Simon Oakland) – Classic Movie Review 6243

Director Richard Wilson’s capable and underrated 1963 drama is a standard marital soap opera with a seemingly arbitrary horse-racing background tacked on just for colour. But that turns out to be a good thing. Colour […]

Nov, 13

Dunston Checks In *** (1996, Jason Alexander, Rupert Everett, Faye Dunaway) – Classic Movie Review 3869

Director Ken Kwapis’s daft 1996 family adventure comedy stars Jason Alexander as luxurious Majestic Hotel manager Robert Grant, who can handle anything – until thieving orangutan Dunston checks in. Rupert Everett is classy as the […]

Jun, 15

Lisbon *** (1956, Ray Milland, Maureen O’Hara, Claude Rains) – Classic Movie Review 3643

Producer-director Ray Milland hires himself in 1956 to star his thriller Lisbon as an ex-US Navy ship’s skipper, now adventurer-smuggler, Captain Robert John Evans. With Lisbon, Milland moves into direction, the first of several offbeat, low-budget films including himself as […]

May, 01

Hell and High Water **** (1954, Richard Widmark, Bella Darvi, Victor Francen, Cameron Mitchell, Gene Evans, David Wayne) – Classic Movie Review 3457

20th Century Fox’s complex, nail-biting, labyrinthine Cold War thriller about an American submarine’s mission up to the Arctic to put a spoke in the wheels of a Chinese conspiracy to start a war against America […]

Mar, 07

The Crooked Way *** (1949, John Payne, Sonny Tufts, Ellen Drew) – Classic Movie Review 3319

Director Robert Florey’s 1949 film noir melodrama stars John Payne as a decorated amnesiac World War Two war veteran called Eddie Rice, who sustains a head wound in combat and is treated at a San Francisco […]

Feb, 03

Fortress 2: Re-Entry ** (2000, Christopher Lambert, Beth Toussaint, Willie Garson) – Classic Movie Review 2336

Christopher Lambert returns as prisoner Brennick in director Geoff Murphy’s lively but forgettable 2000 action sci-fi thriller sequel to the 1992 original, this time with co-stars Beth Toussaint, Willie Garson, Aidan Rea, Patrick Malahide, Liz […]

Mar, 30

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