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- Attempt to Kill ** (1961, Tony Wright, Derek Farr, Richard Pearson, Freda Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 13,326
- A Hitch in Time *** (1978, Patrick Troughton, Michael McVey, Pheona McLellan, Jeff Rawle, Sorcha Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 13,325
- Man at the Carlton Tower *** (1961, Maxine Audley, Lee Montague, Alfred Burke, Allan Cuthbertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,324
- Beyond the Door [Chi Sei?] [The Devil Within Her] * (1974, Juliet Mills, Richard Johnson, Gabriele Lavia, Elizabeth Turner, David Colin Jr) – Classic Movie Review 13,323
- Beyond the Door II [Schock] *** (1979, Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, David Colin Jr, Ivan Rassimov) – Classic Movie Review 13,322
- Blood Red ** (1989, Eric Roberts, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Hopper, Burt Young) – Classic Movie Review 13,321
- The Fourth Square *** (1961, Conrad Phillips, Natasha Parry, Delphi Lawrence, Miriam Karlin, Jacqueline Jones, Anthony Newlands, Basil Dignam, Harold Kasket) – Classic Movie Review 13,316
- Black Memory *** (1947, Michael Atkinson, Michael Medwin, Myra O’Connell, Jane Arden, Frank Hawkins) – Classic Movie Review 13,320
- The Velvet Touch **** (1948, Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Sydney Greenstreet, Claire Trevor, Leon Ames, Frank McHugh, Walter Kingsford) – Classic Movie Review 13,319
- Delayed Action ** (1954, Robert Ayres, June Thorburn, Alan Wheatley) – Classic Movie Review 13,318
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Cat and Mouse *** (1958, Lee Patterson, Ann Sears, Victor Maddern) – Classic Movie Review 13,115
Paul Rotha’s suspenseful 1958 crime drama film Cat and Mouse stars Lee Patterson as an American army deserter who holds a young British woman (Ann Sears) hostage, believing she knows the location of a fortune […]
Port of Escape ** (1956, Googie Withers, John McCallum, Bill Kerr, Joan Hickson) – Classic Movie Review 13,026
The conscientious 1956 British thriller film Port of Escape stars wife and husband team Googie Withers and John McCallum, along with Bill Kerr as a psychotic sailor, in a killer at large tale. Director Tony […]
The Dark Past *** (1948, William Holden, Nina Foch, Lee J Cobb, Adele Jergens, Stephen Dunne, Lois Maxwell, Berry Kroeger) – Classic Movie Review 11,812
Director Rudolph Maté’s American 1948 extended flashback black and white psychological thriller The Dark Past is a suspenseful remake of the 1939 film Blind Alley, based on the 1935 play Blind Alley by James Warwick, with […]
Blood on the Arrow ** (1964, Dale Robertson, Martha Hyer, Wendell Corey) – Classic Movie Review 11,090
‘Their justice was Blood on the Arrow (1964)!’ Director Sidney Salkow’s ordinary and over-familiar 1964 B-movie Blood on the Arrow stars Dale Robertson, Martha Hyer and Wendell Corey, and is only moderately entertaining. Apaches besiege […]
Hold-Up *** (1985, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Kim Cattrall, Guy Marchand) – Classic Movie Review 10,786
Director Alexandre Arcady’s 1985 film Hold-Up stars Jean-Paul Belmondo, whose sprightly playing holds up, but not his success at the box-office, for this entertaining French-Canadian heist thriller, based on Jay Cronley’s novel, in which he […]
Violent Playground *** (1958, Stanley Baker, Peter Cushing, Anne Heywood, David McCallum) – Classic Movie Review 10,681
Director Basil Dearden’s 1958 black and white crime drama Violent Playground is a little-known, but quite well-done film from the British neo-realist school, with Liverpool part-time policeman and juvenile liaison officer Sergeant Truman (Stanley Baker) […]
Dial 1119 [The Violent Hour] *** (1950, Marshall Thompson, Virginia Field, Andrea King) – Classic Movie Review 10,601
The neat and tidy 1950 film noir support thriller Dial 1119 is directed by the nephew of MGM boss Louis B Mayer, and stars Marshall Thompson as a deranged escaped killer holding hostage the customers […]