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Cosh Boy *** (1953, James Kenney, Joan Collins, Betty Ann Davies, Robert Ayres, Hermione Baddeley, Hermione Gingold) – Classic Movie Review 11,116

‘Call me a gangster or a mobster… but not a delinquent!’ Director Lewis Gilbert’s 1953 British black and white noir drama Cosh Boy is quite bad – but with a really good cast, and it […]

Apr, 19

Cry Tough ** (1959, John Saxon, Linda Cristal, Joseph Calleia) – Classic Movie Review 10,588

‘Battle Cry of New York’s West Side Jungle!’ The 22-year-old John Saxon has the striking main role as Miguel Estrada, a Puerto Rican former convict tempted back to a life of crime, in debut director […]

Nov, 27

Caravan to Vaccares ** (1974, David Birney, Charlotte Rampling, Michael Lonsdale, Marcel Bozuffi, Michael Bryant) – Classic Movie Review 10,173

David Birney stars with Charlotte Rampling and Michael Lonsdale in the 1974 British-French action film Caravan to Vaccarès, based on the novel by Alistair MacLean.  ‘The Guns of Navarone – Where Eagles Dare – When […]

Aug, 13

The Big Noise *** (1944, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Doris Merrick, Arthur Space, Jack Norton, Veda Ann Borg) – Classic Movie Review 10,122

Director Malcolm St Clair’s 1944 comedy The Big Noise is a still smile-worthy if relatively feeble, padded-out late-period movie from Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, in which the Boys are detective agency janitors who pretend […]

Aug, 02

Only When I Larf ** (1968, Richard Attenborough, David Hemmings, Alexandra Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 9765

Director Basil Dearden’s painless 1968 Only When I Larf is an enjoyably tolerable Sixties British crime caper comedy with brightness, if not subtlety to commend it. It features one of Richard Attenborough’s more flamboyant performances […]

May, 14

Charro! * (1969, Elvis Presley, Ina Balin, Victor French, Barbara Werle) – Classic Movie Review 9264

Writer/ producer/ director Charles Marquis Warren’s boring 1969 Western film Charro! is one of the real low spots of Elvis Presley’s career. Elvis plays Jess Wade, a one-time outlaw who is set up as the […]

Jan, 15

The Revengers ** (1972, William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Woody Strode, Susan Hayward) – Classic Movie Review 8937

Director Daniel Mann’s 1972 Western movie The Revengers stars William Holden and Ernest Borgnine, who reassemble from the 1969 The Wild Bunch for another in the long line of Westerns that tries to cash in […]

Sep, 24

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