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The Cat and the Canary **** (1939, Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Gale Sondergaard, George Zucco) – Classic Movie Review 4,426

Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard star in the funny, though still scary 1939 remake of the spooky house thriller The Cat and the Canary  Director Elliott Nugent remakes director Paul Leni’s famed 1927 silent classic […]

Sep, 28

Highwaymen ***½ (2004, Jim Caviezel, Rhona Mitra, Frankie Faison, Colm Feore) – Classic Movie Review 4403

Jim Caviezel stars as Rennie Cray, who hunts his wife’s crazy hit-and-run serial killer in director Robert Harmon’s slick, stylish and speedy 2004 crime action thriller that mixes Duel, Crash (1996) and Road Kill to driving effect. […]

Sep, 24

Dead Again ½ (1991, Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Andy Garcia, Robin Williams, Derek Jacobi, Hanna Schygulla, Campbell Scott, Wayne Knight) – Classic Movie Review 4401

Kenneth Branagh comes the most awful cropper as director-star of this appalling 1991 romantic fantasy neo noir mystery thriller that intends to tease playfully but ends up just being infuriating. Dead in the water, it was dead […]

Sep, 24

The Spider ** (1945, Richard Conte, Faye Marlowe, Kurt Kreuger, John Harvey, Martin Kosleck, Ann Savage) – Classic Movie Review 4350

Richard Conte stars as a private detective caught in a web of crime after the death of mind-reader’s assistant The Spider Woman. Director Robert Webb’s 1945 American 20th Century Fox black and white crime mystery […]

Sep, 12

The Night Club Lady *** (1932, Adolphe Menjou, Mayo Methot, Ruthelma Stevens, Richard ‘Skeets’ Gallagher) – Classic Movie Review 4293

This nifty mystery movie is the second film in Adolphe Menjou’s two-film Columbia Pictures’ series, followed by The Circus Queen Murder (1933). It is available to be seen on Turner Classic Movies. Menjou stars as top cop police […]

Sep, 03

The Circus Queen Murder *** (1933, Adolphe Menjou, Greta Nissen, Ruthelma Stevens, Dwight Frye, Donald Cook, Harry Holman) – Classic Movie Review 4292

‘MURDER WITH THOUSANDS OF EYE WITNESSES…but NO ONE COULD TELL HOW OR WHY SHE MET HER DEATH!’ Adolphe Menjou stars as police commissioner Thatcher Colt, who is on holiday in upstate New York with his […]

Sep, 03

Circus of Fear [Psycho-Circus] ** (1966, Christopher Lee, Leo Genn, Anthony Newlands, Klaus Kinski, Margaret Lee, Heinz Drache, Eddi Arent, Suzy Kendall, Cecil Parker) – Classic Movie Review 4,291

An armoured car is robbed on London’s Tower Bridge. The 1966 Anglo-German thriller film Circus of Fear is based on Edgar Wallace’s novel Again the Three Just Men, and stars Christopher Lee, Suzy Kendall, Leo […]

Sep, 03

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