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- The Flying Squad ** (1940, Sebastian Shaw, Phyllis Brooks, Jack Hawkins, Basil Radford, Kathleen Harrison, Henry Oscar) – Classic Movie Review 13,398
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- Private Lessons [Élève Libre] *** (2008) – Classic Movie Review 13,395
- Murder in Eden *** (1961, Ray McAnally, Catherine Feller, Yvonne Buckingham, Norman Rodway) – Classic Movie Review 13,394
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Safe Men *** (1998, Sam Rockwell, Steve Zahn, Harvey Fierstein, Michael Lerner, Paul Giamatti, Mark Ruffalo) – Classic Movie Review 2882
Writer-director John Hamburg’s 1998 comedy crime thriller is a splendidly rum brew. Sam Rockwell and Steve Zahn give effortlessly weird performances as pathetic, self-deluded, low-life crooks way out of their depth in the underworld of […]
Le Samouraï [The Samurai] ***** (1967, Alain Delon, Nathalie Delon, François Périer) – Classic Movie Review 2818
Jean-Pierre Melville’s thrilling 1967 austere neo noir gangster movie Le Samouraï motors on Alain Delon’s enigmatic star turn and Henri Decaë’s stark Eastmancolor cinematography. ‘There is no solitude greater than a samurai’s, unless perhaps it […]
Special Agent **½ (1935, Bette Davis, George Brent, Ricardo Cortez, Jack La Rue, Henry O’Neill) – Classic Movie Review 2746
Bette Davis and George Brent star in the brisk and capable 1935 crime drama film Special Agent, one of 13 movies they made together. William Keighley directs this 1935 early Bette Davis star vehicle at […]
Pocketful of Miracles *** (1961, Glenn Ford, Bette Davis, Hope Lange, Arthur O’Connell, Peter Falk, Thomas Mitchell, Ann-Margret) – Classic Movie Review 2744
For his final movie Pocketful of Miracles in 1961, director Frank Capra remakes his 1933 hit Lady for a Day, this time casting Glenn Ford as superstitious bootlegger mobster Dave the Dude and Bette Davis as […]
Bullets or Ballots **** (1936, Edward G Robinson, Joan Blondell, Humphrey Bogart, Barton MacLane, Frank McHugh) – Classic Movie Review 2729
Director William Keighley’s sharp and involving 1936 gangster movie stars the great Edward G Robinson, along with Joan Blondell, Humphrey Bogart, Barton MacLane Frank McHugh. And Robinson is on the side of the law for […]
Marked Woman **** (1937, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lola Lane, Isabel Jewell, Eduardo Ciannelli, Mayo Methot, Jane Bryan) – Classic Movie Review 2,728
In the stalwart 1937 film noir crime drama Marked Woman, Bette Davis shows feisty form as a club hostess or ‘party girl’, whose sister is accidentally killed during one of the unsavoury parties. Humphrey Bogart […]
The Petrified Forest ***** (1936, Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart) – Classic Movie Review 2702
Robert Sherwood’s classic doom-laden and symbolic play is too reverentially and stagily shot in 1936 by Archie L Mayo, who is content to deliver it as a rather creaky movie museum piece of filmed theatre and not […]