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Exclusive *** (1937, Charles Ruggles, Fred MacMurray, Frances Farmer, Lloyd Nolan) – Classic Movie Review 7223
Director Alexander Hall’s bright, lively, strongly cast 1937 Paramount Pictures black and white movie Exclusive is an authentic-seeming melodrama about rival newspapers, enriched with showy performances from Charles Ruggles as newspaper proprietor Tod Swain and Frances […]
The Freshman **** (1990, Marlon Brando, Matthew Broderick, Bruno Kirby, Penelope Ann Miller, Maximilian Schell, Frank Whaley, Jon Polito) – Classic Movie Review 7211
Writer/ producer/ director Andrew Bergman’s 1990 black comedy The Freshman brings Marlon Brando back to a main role on the screen after a decade away to play Carmine ‘Jimmy the Toucan’ Sabatini, a Mafia Godfather who […]
The Secret 6 *** (1931, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown, Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Ralph Bellamy) – Classic Movie Review 7198
A classy roster of actors embellishes director George W Hill’s 1931 gangster crime thriller The Secret 6, which tells a traditional tale of gangland warfare, bribery and corruption, and the rival crusading reporters (Johnny Mack […]
Yardie ** (2018, Aml Ameen, Stephen Graham, Fraser James ) – Movie Review
Idris Elba’s intriguing but shaky 2018 directorial debut Yardie is a decent and entertaining enough London gangland revenge crime thriller, but overall must count as a bit of disappointment. The problems are a weak period […]
Villain *** (1971, Richard Burton, Ian McShane, Nigel Davenport, Joss Ackland, Cathleen Nesbitt, Donald Sinden, T P McKenna, Fiona Lewis, Tony Selby, Colin Welland) – Classic Movie Review 7065
Director Michael Tuchner’s powerful but distasteful 1971 movie Villain is an effective but unattractive and revoltingly violent British gangster thriller, with Richard Burton giving a strong account of himself in an extremely nasty and unsympathetic […]
Pete Kelly’s Blues **** (1955, Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O’Brien, Peggy Lee, Andy Devine, Lee Marvin, Ella Fitzgerald, Jayne Mansfield) – Classic Movie Review 7,041
The exceptional 1955 musical crime film Pete Kelly’s Blues stars Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O’Brien, Peggy Lee, Andy Devine, Lee Marvin and Ella Fitzgerald, and features Jayne Mansfield. It is based on Jack Webb’s […]
Freebie and the Bean *** (1974, Alan Arkin, James Caan, Loretta Swit, Valerie Harper) – Classic Movie Review 7025
The rumbustious 1974 prototype buddy cop movie Freebie and the Bean stars James Caan and Alan Arkin as bickering San Francisco cops. It is noisy, funny and full of action, but it was a troubled […]