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London Belongs to Me [Dulcimer Street] **** (1948, Richard Attenborough, Alastair Sim, Fay Compton, Stephen Murray) – Classic Movie Review 8642

Director Sidney Gilliat’s well-made, finely acted 1948 drama London Belongs To Me [Dulcimer Street] is based on the novel by Norman Collins, and stars Alastair Sim, Stephen Murray, Richard Attenborough and Fay Compton. In this […]

Jun, 26

Night Watch *** (1973, Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw) – Classic Movie Review 8625

The 1973 horror mystery thriller film Night Watch is a plush, suspenseful version of Lucille Fletcher’s stage chiller. Elizabeth Taylor is on top hysterical form as a rich wife convinced she has witnessed a murder […]

Jun, 22

The Man Who Turned to Stone ** (1957, Victor Jory, William Hudson, Charlotte Austin) – Classic Movie Review 8583

‘Incredible revelations from the blackest chapters of unholy medicine!’ Director László [Leslie] Kardos’s wonderfully awful and splendidly bizarre 1957 schlock sci-fi-horror classic The Man Who Turned to Stone finds some 300-year-old undead scientists, organised by […]

Jun, 12

The Lawyer *** (1970, Barry Newman, Harold Gould, Diana Muldaur, Robert Colbert) – Classic Movie Review 8,550

Co-writer/ producer/ director Sidney J Furie’s entertaining 1970 crime drama mystery movie The Lawyer inspired the Seventies TV show Petrocelli, with Barry Newman creating the role of pushy Italian-American Harvard-educated lawyer Tony Petrocelli, practising in […]

Jun, 04

Mad Dog Coll ** (1961, John Davis Chandler, Kay Doubleday, Brooke Hayward) – Classic Movie Review 8531

John Davis Chandler stars as notorious Thirties gangland killer Vincent ‘Mad Dog’ Coll (born on 20 July 1908), an Irish-American mob hitman, in director Burt Balaban’s fictionalised 1961 biographical crime drama Mad Dog Coll. He […]

Jun, 01

Dragnet **** (1954, Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, Richard Boone, Stacy Harris, Dennis Weaver) – Classic Movie Review 8514

In director Jack Webb’s excellent little 1954 film noir-style crime thriller Dragnet, the admirable Webb makes his mark as star actor in a naturalistic performance as the smug, cocky cop Sergeant Joe Friday, and the […]

May, 29

Moss Rose *** (1947, Peggy Cummins, Victor Mature, Ethel Barrymore, Vincent Price, Margo Woode, Rhys Williams, George Zucco, Patricia Medina) – Classic Movie Review 8510

Director Gregory Ratoff’s 1947 Moss Rose stars Victor Mature in a smooth, old-style murder melodrama, set in Hollywood’s usual idea of old foggy London, in which he plays Michael Drego, who is suspected of killing a […]

May, 28

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