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Quai des Orfèvres **** (1947, Louis Jouvet, Bernard Blier, Suzy Delair, Pierre Larquey, Simone Renant, Charles Dullin) – Classic Movie Review 6642
Co-writer/ director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s beautifully acted and exquisitely crafted 1947 French policier thriller Quai des Orfrèvres is outstanding even in a genre the French regularly do so well. In Paris’s equivalent to Scotland Yard, the 36, […]
Everybody Wins ** (1990, Debra Winger, Nick Nolte, Will Patton) – Classic Movie Review 6633
Director Karel Reisz’s 1990 thriller Everybody Wins stars Nick Nolte as a private eye who is called to a peaceful New England town by a quirky, beguiling, perhaps unstable hooker (Debra Winger) to prove a […]
Hammett **** (1982, Frederic Forrest, Peter Boyle, Marilu Henner) – Classic Movie Review 6,524
Wim Wenders’s eye-catching and very worthy 1982 neo noir film homage to the crime thriller and its great writer Dashiell Hammett has the tasteful stamp of its producer Francis Ford Coppola all over it. Coppola […]
Eleni ** (1985, Kate Nelligan, John Malkovich, Linda Hunt) – Classic Movie Review 6502
Director Peter Yates’s third collaboration with screen-writer Steve Tesich is an awfully limp 1985 true-life drama film about New York journalist Nick (John Malkovich)’s trip back to Greece to investigate the death of his mother […]
Dreyfus [The Dreyfus Case] *** (1931, Cedric Hardwicke, George Merritt, Charles Carson, Sam Livesey, Garry Marsh, Randle Ayrton, George Zucco) – Classic Movie Review 6142
Cedric Hardwicke stars as the real-life French-Jewish officer Captain Alfred Dreyfus, who is accused and convicted of spying in 1890s France, after German staff had forged evidence to convict him, ending up doing life on […]
Blue Steel ** (1934, John Wayne, Eleanor Hunt, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Yakima Canutt) – Classic Movie Review 6041
John Wayne and his best pals George ‘Gabby’ Hayes and Yakima Canutt team up yet again in writer-director Robert N Bradbury’s acceptable but undistinguished and run-of-the-mill quickie 1934 Western from poverty row studio Monogram. It […]
Night Moves ***½ (1975, Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Edward Binns) – Classic Movie Review 6020
Director Arthur Penn’s dark-toned and unusually complex 1975 psychological thriller stars Gene Hackman as Los Angeles private detective Harry Moseby, who tracks a former Hollywood actress’s runaway teenage daughter (played by a very young Melanie […]