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Dead End **** (1937, Joel McCrea, Sylvia Sidney, Humphrey Bogart, Wendy Barrie, Claire Trevor, Allen Jenkins, Marjorie Main, Billy Halop) – Classic Movie Review 6914
Billy Halop was cast as Tommy Gordon in the 1935 Broadway production of Sidney Kingsley’s play Dead End and got the call to go to Hollywood with the rest of the young actors playing the Dead End […]
The Big Shot *** (1942, Humphrey Bogart, Irene Manning, Richard Travis, Susan Peters, Stanley Ridges, Minor Watson, Chick Chandler) – Classic Movie Review 6,902
The entertaining 1942 film noir crime thriller The Big Shot is a now forgotten assembly-line movie for Humphrey Bogart, who stars as crime boss Duke Berne, put on trial after a mistake on an identity […]
Man Trouble * (1992, Jack Nicholson, Ellen Barkin, Beverly D’Angelo, Harry Dean Stanton, Saul Rubinek) – Classic Movie Review 6867
Jack Nicholson stars as a down-at-heel guard dog trainer hired by opera singer Joan Spruance (Ellen Barkin) to steal a manuscript for a tell-all book from one of his clients, her airhead sister who is […]
This Woman Is Dangerous ** (1952, Joan Crawford, Dennis Morgan, David Brian, Mari Aldon, Philip Carey) – Classic Movie Review 6830
Joan Crawford and her famous shoulder pads star in director Felix E Feist’s trashy but intense 1952 romantic film noir melodrama This Woman Is Dangerous, standard Fifties Crawford fare of a hard nut with a […]
The Purchase Price ** (1932, Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Lyle Talbot) – Classic Movie Review 6723
‘She took another woman’s place on her wedding night..!’ Well, that does sound interesting, doesn’t it? Director William A Wellman 1932 pre-Code American drama is adapted from the novel The Mud Lark by Arthur Stringer, with a screenplay by Robert Lord, and stars Barbara […]
Johnny Eager *** (1942, Robert Taylor, Lana Turner, Van Heflin, Edward Arnold) – Classic Movie Review 6707
Director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1942 MGM movie is a half-way good gangster picture with a convincing atmosphere and a commendably taut pace, in which nice girl Lisbeth Bard (Lana Turner) falls for vicious mobster Johnny Eager […]
Brother *** (2000, Takeshi Kitano, Omar Epps, Claude Maki) – Classic Movie Review 6530
Writer-director Takeshi Kitano also stars as an exiled Japanese gangster who teams up with a US mobster (Omar Epps) to battle for Los Angeles’s prime drug turf. This violent, stylishly arty 2000 crime thriller finds […]