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- Lydia *** (1941, Merle Oberon, Joseph Cotten, Edna May Oliver, Hans Jaray, Alan Marshal, George Reeves, Sara Allgood, John Halliday) – Classic Movie Review 13,346
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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 […]
Dancing with Crime *** (1947, Richard Attenborough, Barry K Barnes, Sheila Sim, Garry Marsh, Bill Owen) – Classic Movie Review 8498
Director John Paddy Carstairs’s 1947 mystery crime drama Dancing with Crime is an interesting attempt at a post-war British quickie in the American crime melodrama style starring real-life couple Richard Attenborough and Sheila Sim as […]