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Hidden City *** (1987, Charles Dance, Cassie Stuart, Bill Paterson) – Classic Movie Review 9747

Smoothie Charles Dance stars in Stephen Poliakoff’s first cinema film as writer-director, the 1987 British mystery thriller Hidden City, which is set round a south London building used as an interrogation centre in World War […]

May, 11

The Human Factor ** (1979, Richard Attenborough, Nicol Williamson, Derek Jacobi, John Gielgud) – Classic Movie Review 8602

Otto Preminger’s 1979 spy film The Human Factor adapts the Graham Greene novel about an apparently innocent man, Maurice Castle (Nicol Williamson), suspected of being an MI6 mole. Producer-director Otto Preminger’s feeble, uninspired 1979 British […]

Jun, 17

The Scarlet Clue ** (1945, Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Ben Carter, Benson Fong) – Classic Movie Review 6,612

The 1945 thriller film The Scarlet Clue stars Sidney Toler in a fair, busy, tautly handled Charlie Chan series entry with Earl Derr Biggers’s Oriental detective chasing World War Two foreign agents to get back […]

Jan, 27

The Howards of Virginia * (1940, Cary Grant, Martha Scott, Cedric Hardwicke, Alan Marshal, Richard Carlson) – Classic Movie Review 5714

Producer-director Frank Lloyd’s 1940 Columbia Pictures epic historical romantic drama is set during the American War of Independence. It is astonishing that an American film studio would set about to attack the British people at […]

Jul, 05

Dr Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs [Le spie vengono dal semifreddo] * (1966, Vincent Price, Fabian Forte, Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia) – Classic Movie Review 4314

‘MEET THE MOST TITILATING TIME BOMBS EVER! ‘ Vincent Price went to Italy to re-create his role as the mad scientist Dr Goldfoot for director Mario Bava’s unwanted and stupid 1966 sequel to the previous […]

Sep, 08

Z ***** (1969, Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant) – Classic Movie Review 3679

The real-life 1963 murder of prominent Greek leftist Gregorios Lambrakis forms the basis for this brilliant, fast-paced political thriller from political film-maker Constantin Costa-Gavras that won the 1970 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film (Algeria). […]

May, 08

House of Flying Daggers [Shi mian mai fu] **** (2004, Andy Lau, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhang Ziyi) – Classic Movie Review 2769

Chinese Imperial officers Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro try to infiltrate the subversive Flying Daggers group and Kaneshiro ends up with a beautiful blind girl (Zhang Ziyi) battling pursuing warriors in the forested landscapes. The […]

Aug, 02

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