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Western Union **** (1941, Randolph Scott, Robert Young, Dean Jagger, Virginia Gilmore, Slim Summerville, John Carradine, Chill Wills) – Movie Review 2808

The ideally cast Randolph Scott stars in a cheering performance as cowboy hero Vance Shaw in director Fritz Lang’s top-notch 1941 Western film Western Union, loosely based on the Zane Grey novel, with a grade-A 20th […]

Aug, 12

House by the River *** (1950, Louis Hayward, Jane Wyatt, Lee Bowman) – Classic Movie Review 2806

Fritz Lang directs this tense, moody, intriguing and atmospheric 1950 film noir thriller based on the A P Herbert source novel’s story of death, betrayal and obsession. Louis Hayward stars as deranged, unsuccessful author Stephen […]

Aug, 12

Hangmen Also Die! *** (1943, Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee) – Classic Movie Review 2,637

Fritz Lang’s 1943 real-life film noir thriller film Hangmen Also Die! is based on the events of the previous year, in which the invaded country’s Nazi administrator was shot by unidentified Czech resistance fighters on […]

Jun, 25

Cloak and Dagger **** (1946, Gary Cooper, Robert Alda, Lilli Palmer) – Classic Movie Review 2601

Director Fritz Lang’s 1946 release stars Gary Cooper as mild-mannered science professor called Alvah Jesper who becomes an agent for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the World War Two forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency. […]

Jun, 14

The Blue Gardenia **** (1953, Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Sothern, Raymond Burr) – Classic Movie Review 2,600

Fritz Lang said: ‘I had to shoot The Blue Gardenia in 20 days. Maybe that’s what made me so venomous.’ The moody 1953 film noir crime thriller stars Anne Baxter, Raymond Burr, Richard Conte and […]

Jun, 14

Rancho Notorious **** (1952, Marlene Dietrich, Arthur Kennedy, Mel Ferrer) – Classic Movie Review 2598

Director Fritz Lang’s splendidly baroque and brooding 1952 Western tale of frontier revenge is lit up by a mesmerising, breathtakingly camp star turn from a smouldering Marlene Dietrich (still looking stunning at 50). She plays Altar […]

Jun, 14

Fury ***** (1936, Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot, Edward Ellism Walter Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 2190

Co-writer/director Fritz Lang’s outstanding 1936 American drama film Fury finds Spencer Tracy on his most blistering form in this forceful, continuingly relevant attack on small-town mob violence. Lang’s American début provided an instant movie classic. He had […]

Feb, 18

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