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- Teenage Monster * (1957, Anne Gwynne, Stuart Wade, Gloria Costello, Gilbert Perkins, Jim McCullough, Stephen Parker) – Classic Movie Review 13,214
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The Brothers Rico **** (1957, Richard Conte, Dianne Foster, Kathryn Grant, James Darren, Larry Gates, Paul Picerni) – Classic Movie Review 8014
Director Phil Karlson’s excellent 1957 black and white film noir crime thriller The Brothers Rico is taken from a Georges Simenon novel called Les Frères Rico, and stars Richard Conte, James Darren, Dianne Foster, Kathryn […]
The Valachi Papers *** (1972, Charles Bronson, Lino Ventura, Jill Ireland, Walter Chiari, Joseph Wiseman) – Classic Movie Review 7776
Charles Bronson plays gangster and informer Joseph Valachi, who spills the beans on his real-life Mafia tale, in director Terence Young’s 1972 thriller The Valachi Papers [Joe Valachi, I Segreti di Cosa Nostra], a very […]
Police Academy 7: Mission to Moscow * (1994, George Gaynes, Michael Winslow, David Graf, Leslie Easterbrook, G W Bailey, Ron Perlman, Christopher Lee, Charlie Schlatter, Claire Forlani, Richard Israel) – Classic Movie Review 6945
‘Kicking buttski. Making you laughski. The Academy is backski!’ Oh so naffoffski! After a happy respite of five years since Police Academy 6: City Under Siege (1989), the Police Academy returns for its final episode, […]
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond **** (1960, Ray Danton, Karen Steele, Elaine Stewart, Jesse White) – Classic Movie Review 6430
Director Budd Boetticher’s classic cult 1960 gangster B-movie, with lots of action and an authoritative, career-best performance by Ray Danton as the hoodlum Jack ‘Legs’ Diamond in prohibition-era Twenties New York, deserves its fame and […]
Bugsy **** (1991, Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel, Ben Kingsley, Joe Mantegna, Elliott Gould) – Classic Movie Review 6060
Warren Beatty stars in director Barry Levinson’s exciting, lovingly crafted 1991 mob crime thriller Bugsy as real-life charming but psychotic Forties gangster Benjamin (‘Bugsy’) Siegel, sent by Meyer Lansky (Ben Kingsley) to control the rackets […]
Wise Guys * (1986, Danny DeVito, Joe Piscopo, Harvey Keitel, Ray Sharkey, Patti LuPone, Dan Hedaya, Julie Bovasso) – Classic Movie Review 6045
Even Danny DeVito cannot rescue director Brian De Palma’s tasteless and unfunny 1986 gangster crime comedy about two hoodlums called Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein, played by DeVito and Saturday Night Live alumnus Joe Piscopo (who […]
Innocent Blood ** (1992, Anne Parillaud, Anthony LaPaglia, Robert Loggia) – Classic Movie Review 6029
Director John Landis revisits with considerably less effect the territory he covered so successfully with his 1981 classic An American Werewolf in London for this disappointing if passable 1992 vampire horror thriller. The mix of fantasy, […]