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New York Confidential **** (1955, Broderick Crawford, Richard Conte, Anne Bancroft, Marilyn Maxwell, J Carrol Naish) – Classic Movie Review 5212
Broderick Crawford and Anne Bancroft star in the tremendous hardboiled 1955 gangster movie New York Confidential. Co-writer/ director Russell Rouse’s tremendous hardboiled 1955 gangster movie New York Confidential is both revealing and exciting. It tells […]
Golden Boy ***** (1939, Barbara Stanwyck, William Holden, Adolphe Menjou, Joseph Calleia, Lee J Cobb, Sam Levene) – Classic Movie Review 5201
In 1939 director Rouben Mamoulian films Clifford Odets’s classic theatre play Golden Boy (with Luther Adler starring on stage) and it becomes a star-making tour de force for William Holden as a prizefighter Joe Bonaparte, […]
Invisible Stripes *** (1939, George Raft, Jane Bryan, William Holden, Humphrey Bogart) – Classic Movie Review 5077
William Holden stars with George Raft and Humphrey Bogart in the Warner Bros gangster flick Invisible Stripes (1939). In the first of their two films together, George Raft and Humphrey Bogart make a good team […]
King of the Underworld *** (1939, Humphrey Bogart, Kay Francis, James Stephenson) – Classic Movie Review 5,067
‘EXCITEMENT…WITH THE SILENCERS OFF!’ Director Lewis Seiler’s 1939 Warner Bros thriller film stars Humphrey Bogart and Kay Francis and is based on the story Dr Socrates by W R Burnett. Francis stars as Dr Carol […]
Touchez Pas au Grisbi ***** (1954, Jean Gabin, Jeanne Moreau, Lino Ventura, Gaby Basset, Daniel Cauchy, René Dary, Dora Doll, Paul Frankeur) – Classic Movie Review 5007
A sad and smokey bitter-sweet Gallic atmosphere of tired desperation pervades co-writer/ director Jacques Becker’s 1954 wry classic French noir gangster crime thriller. A movie based on Albert Simonin’s novel was always going to be good, […]
Live by Night ** (2016, Ben Affleck, Chris Messina, Elle Fanning, Brendan Gleeson) – Movie Review
Ben Affleck and Chris Messina star as Joe Coughlin and Dion Bartolo, a couple of Boston gangsters who, to get themselves out of trouble, do a deal with Italian mobster Maso Pescatore (Remo Girone) and set […]
Dirty Deeds **½ (2003, Bryan Brown, Toni Collette, Sam Neill, John Goodman, Sam Worthington) – Classic Movie Review 4864
Bryan Brown’s crime boss Barry Ryan tackles his angry wife Sharon (Toni Collette), a bent cop named Detective Sergeant Ray Murphy (Sam Neill) and a nasty US crook called Tony Testano (John Goodman) in writer-director […]