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The Cisco Kid Returns *** (1945, Duncan Renaldo, Martin Garralaga, Roger Pryor) – Classic Movie Review 8287

Director John P McCarthy’s 1944 Western The Cisco Kid Returns stars Duncan Renaldo as ‘O Henry’s famous Robin Hood of the Old West’ in the first of his series of Cisco Kid films with Martin […]

Mar, 23

Stranger on the Third Floor **** (1940, Peter Lorre, John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet, Charles Waldron, Elisha Cook Jr) – Classic Movie Review 8251

The 1940 Stranger on the Third Floor is a classic film noir thriller where menace lurks in every shadow and stairway. Peter Lorre stars as the sinister Stranger, whom a reporter (John McGuire) suspects has […]

Mar, 17

On Dangerous Ground **** (1951, Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond) – Classic Movie Review 8189

Director Nicholas Ray’s distinguished 1951 film noir drama On Dangerous Ground stars Robert Ryan as brutal, obsessive city police detective Jim Wilson, who sees the error of his savage ways when he is sent upstate […]

Mar, 02

Goodbye Gemini (1970, Judy Geeson, Martin Potter, Michael Redgrave) – Classic Movie Review 8178

Goodbye Gemini (1970) ended up listed as a video nasty. Judy Geeson and Martin Potter play Chelsea teenage sister and brother twins up to their pretty necks in a pretty offensive plot. Director Alan Gibson’s […]

Feb, 27

Gunn *** (1967, Craig Stevens, Laura Devon, Edward Asner) – Classic Movie Review 8133

Co-writer/ director Blake Edwards’s satisfying 1967 thriller Gunn is the tough cinema feature movie of his TV series Peter Gunn (1958-61), with Craig Stevens repeating his smooth laconic Cary Grant-style performance as the suave, stylishly […]

Feb, 15

Home at Seven [Murder on Monday] *** (1952, Ralph Richardson, Margaret Leighton, Jack Hawkins, Meriel Forbes) – Classic Movie Review 8121

Director Ralph Richardson’s 1952 Home at Seven [retitled Murder on Monday in the US] is a fairly compelling amnesia mystery with a theft and a murder occurring during the 24 hours a bank clerk, David […]

Feb, 12

The Third Secret ** (1964, Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Richard Attenborough, Pamela Franklin, Rachel Kempson, Diane Cilento Margaret Leighton, Paul Rogers, Judi Dench) – Classic Movie Review 8000

Director Charles Crichton’s 1964 The Third Secret is a muddled and ponderous suspense thriller that is comprised of a number of short stories joined together by the plot device of having a prominent psychiatrist’s daughter […]

Jan, 11

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