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- Brief Encounter (1974, Richard Burton, Sophia Loren) – Classic Movie Review 13,411
- The Six Men ** (1951, Harold Warrender, Olga Edwardes, Peter Bull, Michael Evans) – Classic Movie Review 13,410
- Battle of the V-1 *** (1958, Michael Rennie, Patricia Medina, David Knight, Esmond Knight, Christopher Lee, Carl Jaffe, Peter Madden) – Classic Movie Review 13,409
- Make Me an Offer *** (1954, Peter Finch, Adrienne Corri, Rosalie Crutchley, Finlay Currie, Meier Tzelniker, Ernest Thesiger, Wilfrid Lawson) – Classic Movie Review 13,408
- The St Louis Bank Robbery *** (1959, Steve McQueen, Crahan Denton, David Clarke, Molly McCarthy) – Classic Movie Review 13,407
- Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer ** (1956, Bruce Bennett, Lon Chaney Jr, Faron Young) – Classic Movie Review 13,406
- Paranormal Activity *** (2007, Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat) – Classic Movie Review 13,405
- Guilty? ** (1956, John Justin, Barbara Laage, Donald Wolfit, Stephen Murray) – Classic Movie Review 13,404
- End of the Century [Fin de Siglo] *** (2019, Juan Barberini, Ramón Pujol, Mía Maestro) – Classic Movie Review 13,403
- At War with the Army ** (1951, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Mike Kellin, Polly Bergen, Jimmie Dundee, Angela Greene, Dick Stabile) – Classic Movie Review 13,402
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Thunderbolt and Lightfoot **** (1974, Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, George Kennedy, Geoffrey Lewis, Catherine Bach, Gary Busey) – Classic Movie Review 3167
Young writer-director Michael Cimino’s exciting 1974 thriller finds Clint Eastwood on his best form as Thunderbolt, a hardened artilleryman bank robber who flees from jail, chums up with Lightfoot, an aimless, flippant, irresponsible, irreverent young punk (Jeff […]
The Sicilian Clan [Le Clan des Siciliens] **** (1969, Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Lino Ventura, Irina Demick) – Classic Movie Review 2823
Co-writer/ director Henri Verneuil’s very satisfactory and entertaining plot-driven 1969 gangster action thriller The Sicilian Clan [Le Clan des Siciliens] is given a classy lift by a top-drawer French and Italian cast. The film is […]
Le Cercle Rouge [The Red Circle] ***** (1970, Alain Delon, Yves Montand, Gian Maria Volontè, Bourvil) – Movie Review 2,822
Alain Delon stars a tough, cynical ex-con master crook in the 1970 Le Cercle Rouge [The Red Circle], his second of three thrilling films with Jean-Pierre Melville and fourth gangster movie. Alain Delon stars in […]
Thief [Violent Streets] **** (1981, James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Willie Nelson, James Belushi, Robert Prosky, Dennis Farina) – Classic Movie Review 2714
Writer-director Michael Mann’s intriguing and involving 1981 neo-noir heist thriller Thief is his cinema début as director after the TV movie The Jericho Mile in 1979. It showcases a rich and riveting James Caan performance […]
3,000 Miles to Graceland *** (2001, Kurt Russell, Kevin Costner, Courteney Cox, Christian Slater, David Arquette, Bokeem Woodbine) – Classic Movie Review 2711
Co-writer/director Demian Lichtenstein’s full-on 2001 black-comedy action thriller stars Kurt Russell, Kevin Costner, Christian Slater, David Arquette and Bokeem Woodbine as a gang of ex-con crooks who dress up as Elvis to rob a Las […]
Gambit *** (1966, Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine, Herbert Lom) – Classic Movie Review 2417
Director Ronald Neame’s entertaining, modish 1966 comedy thriller Gambit stars Michael Caine in his first Hollywood movie, made at Universal Studios, California. It casts him as Harry, an ambitious London cat burglar who embroils dancer […]
The Thomas Crown Affair ***** (1968, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke, Jack Weston, Biff McGuire, Yaphet Kotto) – Classic Movie Review 2,229
Director Norman Jewison’s entrancing, cucumber-cool 1968 thriller The Thomas Crown Affair is a highly polished, entertaining fake gem that perfectly captures the glitzy escapist, colour supplement aspect of the late Sixties zeitgeist. Those fashionable beautiful […]