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Strait-Jacket *** (1964, Joan Crawford, Diane Baker, Leif Erickson, Howard St John, John Anthony Hayes, Rochelle Hudson, George Kennedy, Edith Atwater) – Classic Movie Review 3251

‘Tina, bring me the axe’. Joan Crawford stars in the 1964 horror movie Strait-Jacket as an axe-wielding killer. Producer-director William Castle casts the great Joan Crawford, aged 59 in 1964, who follows up her success in […]

Jan, 08

Trog * (1970, Joan Crawford, Michael Gough, Bernard Kay, Thorley Walters) – Classic Movie Review 3250

Director Freddie Francis’s sensationally forlorn and risible 1970 British effort Trog stars the great Joan Crawford in what proved to be her unhappy last movie, made at the age of 65, though she lived on […]

Jan, 08

The Women ***** (1939, Rosalind Russell, Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer, Paulette Goddard, Joan Fontaine, Ruth Hussey, Virginia Weidler, Mary Boland) – Classic Movie Review 2919

Director George Cukor’s delicious 1939 comedy is a vastly entertaining all-female film of Clare Boothe [Luce]’s risqué hit play about an interconnected group of prospective divorcées waiting at a ranch for their divorce decrees and their […]

Sep, 20

Sudden Fear **** (1952, Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame, Bruce Bennett) – Classic Movie Review 2,088

Joan Crawford commands the screen forcefully as a woman who marries a murderous man, in the twisty and stylish 1952 cat-and-mouse film noir thriller Sudden Fear. Joan Crawford commands the screen forcefully in the twisty […]

Jan, 18

Flamingo Road ***** (1949, Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet, David Brian, Gladys George) – Classic Movie Review 2011

Director Michael Curtiz’s steamy and over-heated but memorable 1949 romantic noir melodrama finds the ideal star in the one and only Joan Crawford in her follow-up to the acclaimed Mildred Pierce, where she won the […]

Dec, 29

Grand Hotel ***** (1932, Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore) – Classic Movie Review 1984

Going against conventional Hollywood wisdom, MGM’s trail-blazing multi-story film Grand Hotel (1932) was one of the first all-star vehicles. It was the Oscar winner for Best Picture and became one of the highest grossing pictures.  […]

Dec, 20

Possessed **** (1947, Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey) – Classic Movie Review 1331

The 1947 film noir movie Possessed is a riveting melodrama and portrait of crazy passion, starring the actress who best personified mental distress on screen – Joan Crawford, later saying it was the most difficult […]

Jun, 17

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