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The Irishman ***** (2019, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci) – Movie Review
Director Martin Scorsese is on fire for his 2019 mob crime thriller The Irishman – and so is his screen-writer Steven Zaillian, carving out a really brilliant, scintillating screenplay from Charles Brandt’s book. Even so, […]
The October Man *** (1947, John Mills, Joan Greenwood, Edward Chapman) – Classic Movie Review 9147
Director Roy Ward Baker’s 1947 British noir crime drama The October Man is an acceptably delivered, very watchable British murder mystery, with a good role for John Mills as Jim Ackland, a brain-damaged amnesiac, afflicted […]
Nobody Runs Forever [The High Commissioner] * (1968, Rod Taylor, Christopher Plummer, Lilli Palmer) – Classic Movie Review 9129
Director Ralph Thomas’s 1968 Nobody Runs Forever [The High Commissioner] stars Rod Taylor as Australian police detective Sergeant Scobie Malone, who is sent to London to investigate the dodgy death of the first wife of […]
On Deadly Ground ** (1994, Steven Seagal, Michael Caine, Joan Chen) – Classic Movie Review 9118
Director Steven Seagal’s 1994 action adventure thriller On Deadly Ground has the unusual idea of pairing Steven Seagal with Michael Caine. Steven Seagal lumbers along as Forrest Taft, a mystical martial artist environmental worker, who specialises […]
The Alphabet Murders [The ABC Murders] * (1965, Tony Randall, Robert Morley, Anita Ekberg) – Classic Movie Review 9029
Agatha Christie’s A1 vintage thriller novel The ABC Murders about a murderer apparently bumping people off alphabetically is infuriatingly played for broad and easy laughs by a miscast Tony Randall as Eurotec Hercule Poirot, and […]
Lure of the Wilderness *** (1952, Jean Peters, Jeffrey Hunter, Constance Smith, Walter Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 8978
Jean Renoir’s 1941 black and white American début movie Swamp Water is remade here in director Jean Negulesco’s 1952 romantic adventure drama Lure of the Wilderness with the definite advantage of Edward Cronjager’s excellent Technicolor […]
Cry Vengeance ** (1954, Mark Stevens, Martha Hyer, Skip Homeier, Joan Vohs, Douglas Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 8915
Director Mark Stevens’s routine, semi-tough 1954 film noir thriller Cry Vengeance also stars Stevens as violent ex-cop Vic Barron, who hunts the villain, apparently Tino Morelli (Douglas Kennedy), who framed him and put him in […]