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Pépé le Moko ***** (1937, Jean Gabin, Mireille Balin, Gabriel Gabrio, Saturnin Fabre, Lucas Gridoux, Gilbert Gil, Line Noro) – Classic Movie Review 4298

In one of his most famous parts, Jean Gabin lights up the screen as Paris gangster Pépé le Moko, who hides out from the law in the Casbah in Algiers but gets arrested when leaving […]

Sep, 04

The Enforcer ** (1976, Clint Eastwood, Tyne Daly, Harry Guardino, Bradford Dillman) – Classic Movie Review 3810

Director James Fargo’s mechanical, violent, drearily plotted and slackly handled 1976 police thriller is not much above routine, though the admirable star team of Clint Eastwood and Tyne Daly, with their amusing rapport and repartee, manage to […]

Jun, 06

A Shot in the Dark **** (1964, Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, George Sanders, Herbert Lom, Bert Kwouk, Graham Stark, Tracy Reed, Moira Redmond) – Classic Movie Review 3770

Director Blake Edwards’s tasty 1964 comedy is the welcome first sequel to The Pink Panther (1963), which finds Peter Sellers on even better form as the bizarrely bumbling Inspector Clouseau, who absurdly believes that the housemaid Maria […]

May, 25

She-Wolf of London [The Curse of the Allenbys] * (1946, Don Porter, June Lockhart, Sara Haden) – Classic Movie Review 3748

Director Jean Yarbrough’s stale 1946 horror thriller stars June Lockhart as young heiress Phyllis Allenby, whose aunt Martha Winthrop (Sara Haden) convinces her that she has come under the influence of a family curse and is […]

May, 23

The General ** (1998, Brendan Gleeson, Jon Voight, Adrian Dunbar, Sean McGinley) – Classic Movie Review 3331

Fancy two hours in the obnoxious company of a notorious Irish criminal called Martin Cahill, apparently a legend for his defiance of authority, relentless battle with the police and his weird family relationships? Well, maybe […]

Feb, 06

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man *** (1943, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney Jr, Ilona Massey, Patric Knowles, Lionel Atwill, Maria Ouspenskaya) – Classic Movie Review 2771

Or rather The Frankenstein Monster Meets the Wolf Man. Director Roy William Neill’s 1943 horror movie stars Bela Lugosi, who makes his only appearance as the Frankenstein Monster, and Lon Chaney Jr, who returns as […]

Aug, 02

Son of Frankenstein **** (1939, Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Josephine Hutchinson) – Classic Movie Review 2,506

The 1939 horror movie Son of Frankenstein is the third film in Universal’s superb Frankenstein series, the last to star Boris Karloff as the Monster but the first to feature Bela Lugosi as Ygor. Director […]

May, 20

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