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The Enforcer [Murder, Inc] **** (1951, Humphrey Bogart, Everett Sloane, Zero Mostel, Ted de Corsia) – Classic Movie Review 3,809

The first-rate 1951 film noir thriller The Enforcer [Murder, Inc] finds Humphrey Bogart on top form as crusading district attorney Martin Ferguson doggedly on the trail of crime boss Albert Mendoza (Everett Sloane) and his […]

Jun, 06

Le Doulos ***** (1962, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani, Jean Desailly) – Classic Movie Review 3802

Writer-director Jean-Pierre Melville’s shadowy, twisting and disturbing 1962 French neo noir gangster thriller Le Doulos is adapted from the novel by Pierre Lesou. It takes its power and modernity from being a profoundly cynical and […]

Jun, 05

The Crow: City of Angels ** (1996, Vincent Perez, Mia Kirshner, Richard Brooks) – Classic Movie Review 3808

Director Tim Pope’s 1996 sequel is a largely unsuccessful attempt to cash in on the successful flight of the 1994 hit The Crow, without the star, Brandon Lee, who was killed in an on-set accident […]

Jun, 05

Jiminy Glick in Lalawood ** (2004, Martin Short, Jan Hooks, Linda Cardellini) – Classic Movie Review 3795

Martin Short stars as obese TV host and culture critic Jiminy Glick, who gets tied up in a murder case at the Toronto Film Festival, in director Vadim Jean’s relatively amusing Canadian comedy, a soft parody of the […]

Jun, 03

The Brute Man * (1946, Rondo Hatton, Tom Neal, Jane Adams, Jan Wiley, Peter Whitney, Donald MacBride) – Classic Movie Review 3752

The 1946 chiller The Brute Man stars disfigured horror icon Rondo Hatton (in his last film) as the Creeper, a murderer seeking revenge against those he holds responsible for his facial disfigurement in a lab […]

May, 25

The Man Who Watched Trains Go By *** (1952, Claude Rains, Märta Torén, Marius Goring, Herbert Lom, Anouk Aimée, Ferdy Mayne, Felix Aylmer) – Classic Movie Review 3,772

The 1952 British suspense crime thriller film The Man Who Watched Trains Go By has four or five inestimable advantages. Notably, it is based on a Georges Simenon novel and stars Claude Rains. Writer-director Harold French’s […]

May, 25

A Shot in the Dark **** (1964, Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, George Sanders, Herbert Lom, Bert Kwouk, Graham Stark, Tracy Reed, Moira Redmond) – Classic Movie Review 3770

Director Blake Edwards’s tasty 1964 comedy is the welcome first sequel to The Pink Panther (1963), which finds Peter Sellers on even better form as the bizarrely bumbling Inspector Clouseau, who absurdly believes that the housemaid Maria […]

May, 25

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