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Kids Return [Kizzu ritân] **** (1996, Ken Kaneko, Masanobu Andô, Leo Morimoto ) – Classic Movie Review 6526
Japanese writer-director Takeshi Kitano returns to form in his compassionate 1996 boxing tale about two troublesome teenage drifters, boxer Shinji (Masanobu Andô) and Yakuza gangster Masaru (Ken Kaneko), who take up boxing when their intimidation tactics […]
Six Bridges to Cross *** (1955, Tony Curtis, George Nader, Julie Adams, Jay C Flippen, Sal Mineo) – Classic Movie Review 6509
The 1955 American film noir crime film Six Bridges to Cross stars Tony Curtis, George Nader and Julie Adams. Director Joseph Pevney’s slickly produced, compelling, exciting and atmospheric 1955 film version of a Joseph F Dinneen novel called They […]
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond **** (1960, Ray Danton, Karen Steele, Elaine Stewart, Jesse White) – Classic Movie Review 6430
Director Budd Boetticher’s classic cult 1960 gangster B-movie, with lots of action and an authoritative, career-best performance by Ray Danton as the hoodlum Jack ‘Legs’ Diamond in prohibition-era Twenties New York, deserves its fame and […]
The Girl Who Had Everything ** (1953, Elizabeth Taylor, Fernando Lamas, William Powell) – Classic Movie Review 6419
Fiery Elizabeth Taylor stars as Jean Latimer, who upsets her attorney father Steve Latimer (William Powell) when she romances his gangster client Victor Y Raimondi (Fernando Lamas), in director Richard Thorpe’s routinely competent 1953 crime soap. […]
Sex Kittens Go to College ** (1960, Mamie Van Doren, Tuesday Weld, Mijanou Bardot, Mickey Shaughnessy, Louis Nye, Pamela Mason, Martin Milner) – Classic Movie Review 6318
‘You Never SAW A Student Body Like This!’ Ah hem, yes. Director Albert Zugsmith’s demented 1960 American exploitation sex comedy film Sex Kittens Go to College stars the memorable Mamie Van Doren as Doctor Mathilda […]
Mickey One *** (1965, Warren Beatty, Alexandra Stewart, Hurd Hatfield, Franchot Tone) – Classic Movie Review 6227
Warren Beatty stars as a club stand-up comic, who flees Detroit for Chicago to escape his involvement with the Mob, changing his identity to Mickey One after stealing the social security card of a homeless tramp. But he […]
Love Is Colder Than Death [Liebe ist kälter als der Tod] *** (1969, Ulli Lommel, Hanna Schygulla, Rainer Werner Fassbinder) – Classic Movie Review 6197
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s chilly and attractively unusual 1969 low budget German black-and-white film is his first feature, valuable as an interesting apprentice work of this important director. It tells a dour and doomy noir-style gangster story, as seen through […]