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- The Inspector General *** (1949, Danny Kaye, Walter Slezak, Barbara Bates, Elsa Lanchester, Gene Lockhart) – Classic Movie Review 13,264
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- Dangerous Cargo ** (1954, Jack Watling, Susan Stephen, Karel Stepanek, Terence Alexander) – Classic Movie Review 13,261
- Yossi *** (2012, Ohad Knoller, Oz Zehavi, Lior Ashkenazi) – Classic Movie Review 13,260
- The Return of the Whistler **½ (1948, Michael Duane, Lenore Aubert, Richard Lane) – Classic Movie Review 13,259
- Steamboat Round the Bend **** (1935, Will Rogers, Anne Shirley, Eugene Pallette) – Classic Movie Review 13,258
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Sunset **** (1988, Bruce Willis, James Garner, Malcolm McDowell) – Classic Movie Review 6538
Writer-director Blake Edwards teasingly says at the end of his fanciful 1988 comedy crime, mystery thriller movie: ‘And this is how it really happened. Give or take a lie or two.’ The story starts with the […]
Vamp *** (1986, Chris Makepeace, Sandy Baron, Robert Rusler, Dedee Pfeiffer, Gedde Watanabe, Grace Jones, Billy Drago) – Classic Movie Review 6520
Writer-director Richard Wenk’s 1986 contemporary vampire tale adds lashings of gory humour to a fair quota of chills. Chris Makepeace and Robert Rusler star as college kids who go to a bar and hire a […]
Suspect **** (1987, Cher, Dennis Quaid, Liam Neeson, John Mahoney, Joe Mantegna, Philip Bosco) – Classic Movie Review 6501
Director Peter Yates follows up his Eyewitness (1981) in 1987 with another top-notch thriller in similar vein. It boasts charismatic performances by Cher as public defender Kathleen Riley, Liam Neeson as her client Carl Anderson, a […]
Eyewitness [The Janitor] **** (1981, William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Christopher Plummer) – Classic Movie Review 6500
Producer-director Peter Yates’s first-class 1981 thriller is extremely moody, atmospheric, neat and tense throughout. The screenplay is convincingly written by Steve Tesich. The young William Hurt is at his best as the Vietnam War vet and Manhattan […]
The Organization ** (1971, Sidney Poitier, Barbara McNair, Sheree North, Gerald S O’Loughlin, Raul Julia, Allen Garfield, Ron O’Neal) – Classic Movie Review 6480
Director Don Medford’s 1971 routine second sequel thriller brings Sidney Poitier back for the third and last time as San Francisco Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs, the upright cop from 1967’s In the Heat of the Night. […]
The Man Behind the Gun ** (1953, Randolph Scott, Patrice Wymore, Dick Wesson) – Classic Movie Review 6437
‘An Easy-Going Gent with Deadly Guns…and a Reputation to Match!’ Randolph Scott stars as handsome US Cavalry officer, Major Ransome Callicut, who goes undercover to pose as a teacher, subdues an Indian uprising and founds Los […]
Rhapsody in August [Hachi-gatsu no rapusodî] **** (1991, Sachiko Murasé, Hisashi Igawa, Richard Gere) – Classic Movie Review 6424
Writer-director Akira Kurosawa’s small-scale 1991 Japanese film made in his old age at 81 tackles all the big subjects – the bomb, war guilt, forgiveness, life, death, the future and the whole darned thing. Kurosawa’s screenplay […]