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Thieves’ Highway **** (1949, Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese, Lee J Cobb) – Classic Movie Review 1582

Director Jules Dassin’s 1949 American film noir thriller is still fresh and knife-edge exciting. Richard Conte stars as Nico ‘Nick’ Garcos, a sailor war-veteran who joins a trucking business as a truck driver. When he […]

Aug, 23

The Great Dictator ***** (1940, Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie) – Classic Movie Review 1044

Producer-writer-director Charles Chaplin’s 1940 brave, risky and pioneering satirical comedy classic focuses on a timid Jewish barber who is mistaken for the dictator of Tomania (‘our Fooey’) and then takes over from him. A stirring, controversial condemnation of […]

Apr, 03

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