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Ceiling Zero *** (1936, James Cagney, Pat O’Brien, June Travis, Stuart Erwin, Barton MacLane) – Classic Movie Review 8965

Director Howard Hawks’s robust 1936 black and white civil aviation romantic adventure drama Ceiling Zero stars the ever bouncy James Cagney as a daredevil womanising pilot called Dizzy Davis, who pretends to have a heart […]

Oct, 06

The Red House **** (1947, Edward G Robinson, Lon McCallister, Judith Anderson, Allene Roberts, Julie London, Rory Calhoun) – Classic Movie Review 8247

Writer-director Delmer Daves’s 1947 black and white psychological thriller The Red House (also known as No Trespassing) is based on a novel by George Agnew Chamberlain, published in 1943 by Popular Library, and stars Edward G […]

Mar, 15

Orders to Kill **** (1958, Paul Massie, Irene Worth, James Robertson Justice, Leslie French, Eddie Albert, Lillian Gish, John Crawford, Lionel Jeffries, Sandra Dorne) – Classic Movie Review 6870

The 1958 British thriller Orders to Kill is a powerful and persuasive wartime moral dilemma film. Paul Massie stars as an American agent parachuted into France in World War Two with orders to kill a […]

Mar, 30

Viridiana **** (1961, Silvia Pinal, Fernando Rey, Francisco Rabal) – Classic Movie Review 4882

Director Luis Buñuel’s first film back in his native Spain after three decades away focuses on Viridiana (Silvia Pinal), a young novice nun full of idealistic illusions who is taken advantage of by her widowed […]

Jan, 12

Broken Lullaby **** (1932, Lionel Barrymore, Nancy Carroll, Phillips Holmes, Louise Carter, Tom Douglas, ZaSu Pitts) – Classic Movie Review 4463

Director Ernst Lubitsch’s unique 1932 serious drama is based on Maurice Rostand’s play L’Homme Que J’ai Tué (The Man I Killed) about a French youth called Paul Renard (Phillips Holmes) who sets out to try to find […]

Oct, 06

Moonrise ***½ (1948, Dane Clark, Gail Russell, Ethel Barrymore, Allyn Joslyn, Rex Ingram, Harry Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 3430

‘HER ARMS…HER LOVE…HIS ONLY ESCAPE FROM A HERITAGE OF HATE!’ Dane Clark stars as Danny Hawkins, the frustrated, tormented man who kills a bully from his childhood, Jerry Sykes (Lloyd Bridges), in director Frank Borzage’s […]

Feb, 29

As Above, So Below ** (2014, Perdita Weeks, Ben Feldman, François Civil) – Movie Review

Perdita Weeks stars as a Lara Croft-style English posh lady tomb raider, who leads a team of explorers into the catacombs beneath the streets of Paris. What lies beneath in the ancient drains isn’t exactly what she […]

Sep, 05

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