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Crack-Up *** (1936, Peter Lorre, Brian Donlevy, Helen Wood, Ralph Morgan, Thomas Beck, Kay Linaker) – Classic Movie Review 3.322

Director Malcolm St Clair’s tense and entertaining 1936 espionage thriller film Crack-Up stars Peter Lorre as Colonel Gimpy, a ruthless spy boss whose organisation of dastardly foreign spies is trying to get its hands on the […]

Feb, 04

Rogues of Sherwood Forest *** (1950, John Derek, George Macready, Alan Hale, Billy House, Billy Bevan, Diana Lynn, Paul Cavanagh, Lowell Gilmore, Lester Matthews) – Classic Movie Review 3037

In 1950 a young and dashing John Derek (later the husband of Bo Derek) played Robin Hood’s son, also Robin, the Earl of Huntington, battling King John over the Magna Carta in this sturdy, action-packed […]

Nov, 07

The Son of Dr Jekyll *** (1951, Louis Hayward, Alexander Knox, Jody Lawrance, Lester Matthews, Paul Cavanagh, Gavin Muir, Rhys Williams) – Classic Movie Review 2765

Producer-director Seymour Friedman’s forgotten 1951 chiller tries for an interesting expansion and continuation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde story with the bad doctor’s son Edward Jekyll (Louis Hayward) going through a […]

Aug, 01

The Raven **** (1935, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Irene Ware, Lester Matthews, Inez Courtney, Spencer Charters, Ian Wolfe) – Classic Movie Review 2677

The great Thirties fright team of Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff are happily re-paired for the highly estimable 1935 Universal Studios horror item The Raven, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s poem. Director Lew Landers re-assembles […]

Jul, 07

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