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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

The Last Grenade ** (1970, Stanley Baker, Alex Cord, Honor Blackman, Richard Attenborough, Rafer Johnson, John Thaw, Andrew Keir, Julian Glover, Ray Brooks) – Classic Movie Review 8502

Director Gordon Flemyng’s 1970 British war film The Last Grenade is a one-dimensional, brutal movie about the fatal conflict between two ex-buddy soldiers of fortune, Major Harry Grigsby (Stanley Baker) and turncoat Kip Thompson (Alex Cord), […]

May, 27

The Amityville Horror *** (2005, Ryan Reynolds, Melissa George, Jesse James, Jimmy Bennett, Chloë Grace Moretz, Rachel Nichols) – Classic Movie Review 8,387

Ryan Reynolds and Melissa George star in the 2005 supernatural horror film The Amityville Horror as young married couple George and Kathy Lutz, who move into a large elegant Long Island house, the site of […]

Apr, 22

Eyes in the Night *** (1942, Edward Arnold, Ann Harding, Donna Reed) – Classic Movie Review 8,371

The 1942 MGM black and white American crime mystery thriller film Eyes in the Night is a slightly unusual wartime whodunit starring Edward Arnold as a blind detective called Duncan ‘Mac’ Maclain.  Director Fred Zinnemann’s […]

Apr, 17

Ned Kelly ** (1970, Mick Jagger, Clarissa Kaye-Mason, Mark McManus, Frank Thring, Ken Goodlet, Bruce Barry) – Classic Movie Review 8351

British director Tony Richardson took a miscast Mick Jagger Down Under for his 1970 true story adventure film Ned Kelly, a thoughtful if misguided action biopic of the legendary 19th-century Aussie outback outlaw Ned Kelly […]

Apr, 10

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