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- You Pay Your Money ** (1957, Hugh McDermott, Jane Hylton, Honor Blackman) – Classic Movie Review 13,282
- Never Back Losers ** (1961, Jack Hedley, Jacqueline Ellis, Patrick Magee) – Classic Movie Review 13,281
- Lamb ***½ (1985, Liam Neeson, Hugh O’Conor, Ian Bannen, Harry Towb, Frances Tomelty, Dudley Sutton) – Classic Movie Review 13,280
- To the Lighthouse **** (1983, Rosemary Harris, Michael Gough, Kenneth Branagh, Suzanne Bertish) – Classic Movie Review 13,279
- Remembrance ***½ (1982, John Altman, Al Ashton, Martin Barrass, Nick Dunning, Sally Jane Jackson, David John, Gary Oldman, Timothy Spall, Jesse Birdsall) – Classic Movie Review 13,278
- Meantime **** (1983, Marion Bailey, Tim Roth, Phil Daniels, Pam Ferris, Alfred Molina, Gary Oldman, Jeffrey Robert) – Classic Movie Review 13,277
- Aleksandr’s Price **½ (2013, Pau Masó, Anatoli Grek, Josh Berresford, Samantha Glovin, Keith Dougherty) – Classic Movie Review 13,276
- A Matter of Murder * (1949, Maureen Riscoe, John Barry, Charles Clapham, Ian Fleming, John Le Mesurier) – Classic Movie Review 13,275
- The Call of the Wild ** (1972, Charlton Heston) – Classic Movie Review 13,274
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Thunderbolt *** (1929, George Bancroft, Fay Wray, Richard Arlen, Tully Marshall, Eugenie Besserer) – Classic Movie Review 12,100
Director Josef Von Sternberg’s 1929 film Thunderbolt [At the Gates of Death] is a tough, glum gangster picture, with the cops rounding up mobster Thunderbolt Jim Lang (George Bancroft, who was Oscar nominated for Best Actor). […]
Underworld ***** (1927, Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent, George Bancroft) – Classic Movie Review 12,099
Director Josef von Sternberg’s influential 1927 American silent crime thriller film Underworld [Paying the Penalty] is an impressively fast and furious tale of mobsters during Prohibition. It is one of the earliest gangster movies, and […]
Never a Dull Moment *** (1968, Dick Van Dyke, Edward G Robinson, Dorothy Provine, Henry Silva) – Classic Movie Review 11,955
Director Jerry Paris’s middling 1968 Walt Disney heist crime comedy film Never a Dull Moment stars Dick Van Dyke, Edward G Robinson, Dorothy Provine, Henry Silva, Slim Pickens and Jack Elam. Gangster-playing actor Jack Albany (Dick Van Dyke) is […]
Mauvais Sang ** (1986, Michel Piccoli, Juliette Binoche, Denis Lavant, Hans Meyer, Julie Delpy) – Classic Movie Review 11,701
The 1986 film Mauvais Sang [The Night Is Young] [Bad Blood] is a weird, dark gangster crime thriller from France’s 80s wunderkind writer-director Leos Carax (in his second film after his 1984 first feature Boy […]
Hard Men (1996, Vincent Regan, Lee Ross, Ross Boatman, ‘Mad’ Frankie Fraser, Ken Campbell, Mirella D’Angelo) – Classic Movie Review 11,535
Writer-director J K Amalou’s 1996 British crime gangster black comedy film Hard Men is an appalling British ‘homage’ to Quentin Tarantino, in which a vicious London gangland crime boss Pops Den (played by former real-life hard man “Mad” Frankie […]
Johnny Cool *** (1963, Henry Silva, Elizabeth Montgomery, Richard Anderson) – Classic Movie Review 11,444
Johnny Cool (1963): ‘Headline-Hot! The Terror Behind “Cosa-Nostra” – The Brotherhood of Crime! The International Murder Machine They Couldn’t Turn Off!’ Director William Asher’s 1963 low-budget ($500,000) black and white neo-noir crime thriller Johnny Cool is […]
Deported ** (1950, Jeff Chandler, Marta Toren, Claude Dauphin, Marina Berti, Richard Rober) – Classic Movie Review 11,418
Director Robert Siodmak’s 1950 Universal Pictures black and white film noir crime thriller Deported stars Jeff Chandler, Marta Toren [Märta Torén], Claude Dauphin, Marina Berti and Richard Rober. After a US jail term for robbery, […]