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A Cry in the Night *** (1956, Raymond Burr, Edmond O’Brien, Brian Donlevy, Natalie Wood, Richard Anderson, Irene Hervey) – Classic Movie Review 8900

‘THE TEEN-AGE DATE IN LOVERS’ LANE THEY’LL NEVER LET HER FORGET!’ Director Frank Tuttle’s 1956 film noir A Cry in the Night stars Raymond Burr, who is typecast again as a creepy, mother-fixated heavy and […]

Sep, 12

The Man on the Eiffel Tower *** (1949, Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Burgess Meredith) – Classic Movie Review 8765

Director Burgess Meredith’s 1949 The Man on the Eiffel Tower is an often tensely suspense-filled mystery thriller, based on the 1931 Georges Simenon novel La Tête d’un Homme or A Battle of Nerves (his fifth […]

Jul, 27

Gunn *** (1967, Craig Stevens, Laura Devon, Edward Asner) – Classic Movie Review 8133

Co-writer/ director Blake Edwards’s satisfying 1967 thriller Gunn is the tough cinema feature movie of his TV series Peter Gunn (1958-61), with Craig Stevens repeating his smooth laconic Cary Grant-style performance as the suave, stylishly […]

Feb, 15

Jigsaw **** (1962, Jack Warner, Ronald Lewis, Yolande Donlan, Michael Goodliffe, John le Mesurier, Moira Redmond) – Classic Movie Review 7782

Writer-producer-director Val Guest’s 1962 British black and white noir-style crime film Jigsaw is a first-class old-fashioned whodunit with Jack Warner taking a busman’s holiday from his TV role as PC George Dixon in Dixon of Dock Green […]

Nov, 13

Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion [Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto] **** (1970, Gian Maria Volontè, Florinda Bolkan, Gianni Santuccio) – Classic Movie Review 7622

Co-writer/ director Elio Petri’s admirable Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion [Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto] stars Gian Maria Volontè as a newly elevated police inspector in charge of murder […]

Sep, 27

Crime of Passion *** (1957, Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr, Fay Wray, Royal Dano, Robert Griffin, Dennis Cross) – Classic Movie Review 7615

Director Gerd Oswald’s 1957 film noir crime drama Crime of Passion stars Barbara Stanwyck as cop’s wife Kathy Ferguson Doyle, a sassy San Francisco newspaper advice columnist, who gives up her job and pulls out […]

Sep, 22

The Carey Treatment *** (1972, James Coburn, Jennifer O’Neill, Pat Hingle, Skye Aubrey, Dan O’Herlihy, Elizabeth Allen) – Classic Movie Review 7117

Oh doctor, I’m in trouble… Blake Edwards’s 1972 crime thriller The Carey Treatment got the MGM studio treatment. It was heavily cut and re-edited in post production, infuriating the director, who sued. Director Blake Edwards’s […]

Jun, 04

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