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The Set-Up ***** (1949, Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias, Alan Baxter, Wallace Ford) – Classic Movie Review 2,388
Robert Wise’s great 1949 fight game movie The Set-Up stars Robert Ryan in a knockout performance as a has-been fighter who won’t take a dive. Director Robert Wise’s great 1949 fight game movie The Set-Up […]
Mr Lucky *** (1943, Cary Grant, Laraine Day, Charles Bickford, Gladys Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 2341
The 1943 comedy film Mr Lucky stars Cary Grant, who is not terribly lucky with the script here, but he takes everything this movie throws at him in his stride. ‘You call that purling? You […]
Manhattan Melodrama **** (1934, Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Jimmy Butler, Mickey Rooney, Leo Carrillo, Isabel Jewell) – Classic Movie Review 2,261
MGM’s famed 1934 crime film Manhattan Melodrama is the definitive version of an oft-told tale about two ghetto orphan kids (Jimmy Butler, Mickey Rooney) maturing into adult buddies (William Powell and Clark Gable) on opposite […]
The Cincinnati Kid ***** (1965, Steve McQueen, Ann-Margret, Edward G Robinson, Karl Malden, Joan Blondell, Tuesday Weld) – Classic Movie Review 2,227
Director Norman Jewison’s classic 1965 gambling suspense thriller film The Cincinnati Kid stars Steve McQueen and Edward G Robinson as poker game opponents in a gripping, haunting battle royale with a bunch of iconic Sixties […]
Dead Reckoning **** (1947, Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky) – Classic Movie Review 2160
Director John Cromwell’s distinguished 1947 thriller Dead Reckoning takes a lot of familiar film noir elements and stirs the pot to boiling point, cooking up an extremely tasty, fresh-seeming stew. It starts with a strong […]
Walk Softly, Stranger *** (1950, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Spring Byington, Paul Stewart, John McIntire, Jeff Donnell, Jack Parr) – Classic Movie Review 2024
The 1950 romantic film noir Walk Softly, Stranger stars Joseph Cotten as a small-time crook on the run, who arrives in Ashton, Ohio, claiming to have lived there as a boy but with robbery in […]
The Gambler **** (1974, James Caan, Paul Sorvino, Lauren Hutton) – Classic Movie Review 1974
Director Karel Reisz’s visceral but cerebral 1974 thriller stars James Caan as college literature professor Axel Freed, who has a secret vice as a compulsive gambler with a masochistic urge to lose and an inability to stop […]