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Appointment with Danger *** (1950, Alan Ladd, Phyllis Calvert, Paul Stewart, Jan Sterling, Jack Webb, Harry Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 10,128

Director Lewis Allen’s efficiently written, decently made and quite involving 1950 black and white film noir crime thriller Appointment with Danger stars Alan Ladd as dedicated American Postal Service inspector Al Goddard, who is sent […]

Aug, 04

The Iron Mistress ** (1952, Alan Ladd, Virginia Mayo, Joseph Calleia) – Classic Movie Review 10,123

Director Gordon Douglas’s 1952 film The Iron Mistress stars Alan Ladd, who is neatly cast as Jim Bowie, the frontiersman inventor of the twin-edged knife, in this routine, fictionalised fact-based Western biopic. There is romance […]

Aug, 02

The Kitchen Toto *** (1987, Bob Peck, Phyllis Logan, Edwin Mahinda) – Classic Movie Review 9971

Writer-director Harry Hook’s 1987 British drama The Kitchen Toto stars Bob Peck, Phyllis Logan and Edwin Mahinda. Mahinda plays a Kenyan boy called Mwangi, who is befriended by a British police chief, John Graham (Peck), […]

Jun, 28

The Lady and the Highwayman *** (1989, Emma Samms, Oliver Reed, Claire Bloom, Hugh Grant, Michael York, John Mills, Ian Bannen, Robert Morley) – Classic Movie Review 9970

Cavaliers versus Roundheads, lecherous lords and lovely ladies, masked men and moody mistressess – John Hough’s 1988 swashbuckling adventure The Lady and the Highwayman was a new Gainsborough Picture, no less, happily reviving memories of the […]

Jun, 28

Corruption (1968, Peter Cushing, Sue Lloyd, Noel Trevarthen) – Classic Movie Review 9965

‘Corruption Is Not A Woman’s Picture! Therefore: No Woman Will Be Admitted Alone To See This Super-Shock Film!’ You probably couldn’t get away with that now. You also probably couldn’t get away with Corruption (1968). […]

Jun, 27

Scene of the Crime [Le Lieu du Crime] [Le Crime] ** (1986, Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, Wadeck Stanczak, Nicolas Giraudi, Victor Lanoux) – Classic Movie Review 9941

French director André Téchiné’s 1986 drama Scene of the Crime [Le Lieu du Crime] [Le Crime] is a dour, sluggish and old-fashioned film about a beautiful cafe owner called Lili Ravenel (Catherine Deneuve) falling for […]

Jun, 20

Scandalous (1984, Robert Hays, Pamela Stephenson, John Gielgud, M Emmet Walsh, Jim Dale, Ron Travis) – Classic Movie Review 9882

‘Sir John Gielgud’s a Japanese spy… a down-and-out drunk… a wealthy aristocrat and a grandfather punk! Pamela Stephenson’s classy, she’s brassy… a French maid who mixes seduction with deduction.’ Director Rob Cohen’s 1984 Scandalous is […]

Jun, 09

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