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Woman Wanted *** (1935, Maureen O’Sullivan, Joel McCrea, Lewis Stone, Louis Calhern, Edgar Kennedy, Adrienne Ames) – Classic Movie Review 6,722
The 1935 thriller film Woman Wanted is a mild but fun crime melodrama with good performances from a capable cast and enough extra twists and bright spots to keep it ticking over pleasantly. Maureen O’Sullivan […]
Arch of Triumph ** (1948, Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Charles Laughton) – Classic Movie Review 6696
Co-writer/ producer/ director Lewis Milestone’s stodgy 1948 romantic war drama stars the incomparable Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer, who are up to their pretty necks in a chunk of turgid, overblown heavyweight romantic melodrama based […]
D.O.A. *** (1988, Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, Charlotte Rampling, Daniel Stern) – Classic Movie Review 6676
The 1950 cult classic film noir crime thriller D.O.A. was remade in Australia in 1969 as Color Me Dead, directed by Eddie Davis, before this 1988 D.O.A. remake, directed Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton and starring Dennis […]
Frantic **** (1988, Harrison Ford, Betty Buckley, Emmanuelle Seigner, Alexandra Stewart, John Mahoney) – Classic Movie Review 6663
Director Roman Polanski’s mischievous 1988 thriller is a hugely entertaining Hitchcock spoof starring Harrison Ford as the earnest, sympathetic middle-aged hero, Dr Richard Walker, the typical innocent abroad. Dr Walker is an American in Paris […]
Manon **** (1949, Cécile Aubry, Michel Auclair, Serge Reggiani) – Classic Movie Review 6654
Director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s impressive and engrossing 1949 film version of Abbé Prévost’s classic novel Manon Lescault is updated to post-World War Two France, and a situation close to his heart, persecution for collaborating with the […]
L’Assassin Habite au 21 [The Murderer Lives at Number 21] **** (1942, Pierre Fresnay, Suzy Delair, Jean Tissier, Noël Roquevert, Pierre Larquey) – Classic Movie Review 6653
This excellent, highly sympathetic, thriller-cum-character study comedy comes from co-writer/ director Henri-Georges Clouzot, the maker of Les Diaboliques, making a strong impression with his first solo film as director. Pierre Fresnay stars as Le Commissaire […]
The Walking Dead **** (1936, Boris Karloff, Edmund Gwenn, Marguerite Churchill, Ricardo Cortez, Henry O’Neill, Barton MacLane) – Classic Movie Review 6652
‘BACK FROM THE DEAD!’ ‘HOW CAN A MAN AVENGE HIS OWN MURDER?’ Director Michael Curtiz’s lusty handled, eerily scary 1936 Warner Bros horror movie stars Boris Karloff as pianist ex-con John Ellman, a convicted killer […]