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Getting Away with Murder (1996, Jack Lemmon, Dan Aykroyd, Lily Tomlin) – Classic Movie Review 10,384
Writer-director Harvey Miller’s 1996 comedy Getting Away with Murder stars Dan Aykroyd, Lily Tomlin, Bonnie Hunt, Jack Lemmon and Brian Kerwin. Mild-mannered ethics professor Jack Lambert (Aykroyd) discovers his next-door neighbour is the notorious war […]
Chicago Deadline *** (1949, Alan Ladd, Donna Reed, June Havoc, Berry Kroeger, Irene Hervey, Arthur Kennedy, Gavin Muir) – Classic Movie Review 10,103
Director Lewis Allen’s 1949 crime film noir Chicago Deadline is a very decent little newspaper melodrama starring Alan Ladd as Chicago newsman Ed Adams, an ace reporter who probes the story of a woman found […]
A Murder of Quality ** (1991, Denholm Elliott, Joss Ackland, Glenda Jackson, Billie Whitelaw, David Threlfall, Ronald Pickup) – Classic Movie Review 9661
John le Carré’s 1962 novel (his second) finds holidaying spymaster George Smiley (Denholm Elliott) turning amateur sleuth in the 1950s to investigate the murder of a schoolmaster’s wife at a Dorset public school, Carne School. […]
Inspector Maigret [Maigret tend un piège] [Maigret Sets a Trap] **** (1958, Jean Gabin, Annie Girardot, Olivier Hussenot, Jeanne Boitel, André Valmy, Lino Ventura, Jean Desailly) – Classic Movie Review 9543
Jean Gabin gives a tremendous performance as Georges Simenon’s famed pipe-smoking police inspector Maigret, investigating Jack the Ripper-type knife-murders of women in Paris’s seedy Montmartre. Director Jean Delannoy’s extremely satisfying, top-level 1958 French police thriller […]
The Four Just Men [The Secret Four] **** (1939, Hugh Sinclair, Griffith Jones, Francis L Sullivan, Frank Lawton, Anna Lee, Alan Napier, Basil Sydney) – Classic Movie Review 9532
Director Walter Forde’s 1939 British Ealing Studios black and white movie The Four Just Men [The Secret Four] is a spiffing film of Edgar Wallace’s famed spy thriller story about four righteous vigilante Brits (Hugh […]
The Sky Dragon * (1949, Roland Winters, Keye Luke, Mantan Moreland, Tim Ryan, Milburn Stone, Joel Marston, Noel Neill, Iris Adrian, Elena Verdugo, Lyle Talbot) – Classic Movie Review 9063
The Thirties and Forties Charlie Chan series ends with a dying gasp in director Lesley Selander’s 1949 The Sky Dragon, perhaps the weakest entry of all the series, as Roland Winters returns for the sixth […]
The Alphabet Murders [The ABC Murders] * (1965, Tony Randall, Robert Morley, Anita Ekberg) – Classic Movie Review 9029
Agatha Christie’s A1 vintage thriller novel The ABC Murders about a murderer apparently bumping people off alphabetically is infuriatingly played for broad and easy laughs by a miscast Tony Randall as Eurotec Hercule Poirot, and […]