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Jekyll & Hyde ** (1990, Michael Caine, Cheryl Ladd, Joss Ackland) – Classic Movie Review 8276

Michael Caine reunites with writer-director David Wickes from his 1988 hit TV film Jack the Ripper for this rather less successful slab of Victoriana, the 1990 British TV film Jekyll & Hyde, made by David […]

Mar, 21

The Love Test ** (1935, Judy Gunn, Louis Hayward, David Hutcheson, Googie Withers, Bernard Miles, Thorley Walters) – Classic Movie Review 7955

The Love Test is an early Michael Powell 1935 romantic comedy about love shenanigans among a laboratory’s research chemists, who plot to make their disliked new boss, Mary Lee (Judy Gunn), fall for John Gregg […]

Dec, 29

The Return of Dr Mabuse [Im Stahlnetz des Dr Mabuse] *** (1961, Gert Fröbe, Daliah Lavi, Lex Barker, Wolfgang Preiss) – Classic Movie Review 6942

Director Harald Reinl’s 1961 black-and-white crime thriller The Return of Dr Mabuse [Im Stahlnetz des Dr Mabuse], made in West Berlin, follows Fritz Lang’s The 1,000 Eyes of Dr Mabuse [Die 1000 Augen des Dr Mabuse] (1960) as the […]

Apr, 18

King Cobra (1999, Pat Morita, Scott Hillenbrand, Casey Fallo, Hoyt Axton, Erik Estrada) – Classic Movie Review 6790

Writer-producer-directors David Hillenbrand and Scott Hillenbrand’s absolutely terrible 1999 monster mutated snake movie, with risible special effects and no sense of its total uselessness as a chiller, is just plain bad, where Anaconda was fun […]

Mar, 12

The Scarlet Clue ** (1945, Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Ben Carter, Benson Fong) – Classic Movie Review 6,612

The 1945 thriller film The Scarlet Clue stars Sidney Toler in a fair, busy, tautly handled Charlie Chan series entry with Earl Derr Biggers’s Oriental detective chasing World War Two foreign agents to get back […]

Jan, 27

The Whip Hand * (1951, Elliott Reid, Carla Balenda, Edgar Barrier, Raymond Burr, Otto Waldis, Michael Steele, Laurene Tuttle) – Classic Movie Review 6247

This tale about Communists holed up in a New England town and plotting to take over the US via germ warfare was originally a story about Adolf Hitler hiding in a town after the war, […]

Nov, 13

Dr Cyclops *** (1940, Albert Dekker, Janice Logan, Thomas Coley, Charles Halton, Victor Kilian, Frank Yaconelli) – Classic Movie Review 5916

Director Ernest B Schoedsack’s 1940 Paramount horror movie Dr Cyclops stars Albert Dekker as mad scientist Doctor Thorkel, who cuts travellers to the Amazon down to size – 14 inches actually – in this bonkers […]

Aug, 14

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