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- The Last Shot You Hear ** (1969, Hugh Marlowe, Zena Walker, Patricia Haines, William Dysart) – Classic Movie Review 13,475
- Catacombs [The Woman Who Wouldn’t Die] *** (1964, Gary Merrill, Jane Merrow, Neil McCallum, Georgina Cookson) – Classic Movie Review 13,474
- Plainclothes *** (2025, Tom Blyth, Russell Tovey, Amy Forsyth, Christian Cooke, Maria Dizzia) – Classic Movie Review 13,473
- The Capture *** (1950, Lew Ayres, Teresa Wright, Victor Jory) – Classic Movie Review 13,472
- The Avenging Hand ** (1936, Noah Beery Sr, Kathleen Kelly, Louis Borel) – Classic Movie Review 13,471
- Black Robe ** (1991, Lothaire Bluteau, August Schellenberg, Aden Young, Sandrine Holt) – Classic Movie Review 13,470
- Fatherland ** (1986, Gerulf Pannach, Fabienne Babe, Sigfrit Steiner) – Classic Movie Review 13,469
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- Dead Man’s Shoes **** (2004, Paddy Considine, Toby Kebbell, Gary Stretch, Stuart Wolfenden) – Classic Movie Review 13,467
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Shakedown **** (1950, Howard Duff, Peggy Dow, Brian Donlevy, Lawrence Tierney, Bruce Bennett, Anne Vernon) – Classic Movie Review 9479
Director Joseph [Joe] Pevney’s 1950 Universal International Pictures black and white B-movie crime thriller Shakedown is a little gem of a movie in the best film noir crime drama tradition. Howard Duff plays unscrupulous Jack […]
Sorrowful Jones *** (1949, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, William Demarest) – Classic Movie Review 9196
Damon Runyon’s short story Markie is reworked in director Sidney Lanfield’s 1949 Sorrowful Jones as an amusing vehicle for Bob Hope, spreading his wings in a straight character part as Sorrowful Jones, a bookie who […]
The Trap *** (1959, Richard Widmark, Lee J Cobb, Tina Louise, Earl Holliman) – Classic Movie Review 9016
Co-writer/ co-producer/ director Norman Panama’s 1959 action crime thriller The Trap [The Baited Trap] stars Lee J Cobb as low-life law-breaker Victor Massonetti, a wanted mobster who is attempting to hide from the cops before […]
The Kitchen *** (2019, Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, Elisabeth Moss, Domhnall Gleeson) – Movie Review
Writer-director Andrea Berloff’s devious 2019 mob movie The Kitchen starts out like Widows, with the three wives of gangsters in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen in the late Seventies, forced by being broke to operate their […]
The 51st State [Formula 51] ** (2001, Samuel L Jackson, Robert Carlyle, Emily Mortimer) – Classic Movie Review 8878
Och aye, Samuel L McJackson is a sight for sore eyes with golf clubs and a kilt as Elmo McElroy, a crooked master chemist who heads to the UKto launch a new designer drug in […]
The Lemon Drop Kid *** (1951, Bob Hope, Marilyn Maxwell, Lloyd Nolan, Jane Darwell, William Frawley) – Classic Movie Review 8705
Director Sidney Lanfield’s pleasing 1951 black and white comedy stars Bob Hope as New York City swindler Sidney Milburn, aka The Lemon Drop Kid, a race-track tout who owes big bucks to a gangster crook […]
Every Little Crook and Nanny *** (1972, Lynn Redgrave, Victor Mature, Paul Sand) – Classic Movie Review 8518
The 1972 film Every Little Crook and Nanny is a surprisingly entertaining comedy about a mafioso (Victor Mature) losing his 12-year-old son (Phillip Graves) to his nanny (Lynn Redgrave) as she masterminds the kidnapping of […]