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Gumshoe **** (1971, Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Frank Finlay, Janice Rule, Carolyn Seymour, Fulton Mackay) – Classic Movie Review 3328

Director Stephen Frears’s excellent 1971 British neo-noir retro-gangster yarn provides a heaven-sent acting opportunity for Albert Finney as Eddie Ginley, a music-hall comedian/ nightclub bingo caller who really wants to be Dashiell Hammett’s legendary fictional […]

Feb, 05

Think Fast, Mr Moto *** (1937, Peter Lorre, Virginia Field, Thomas Beck, Sig Ruman) – Classic Movie Review 3323

Director Norman Foster’s 1937 black and white crime thriller Think Fast, Mr Moto stars Peter Lorre, who launches his series of eight films as the talented Mr Moto, in which author John P Marquand’s Japanese […]

Feb, 04

The Damned Don’t Cry **** (1950, Joan Crawford, Kent Smith, David Brian, Steve Cochran, Hugh Sanders, Richard Egan) – Classic Movie Review 3258

‘She’s the Private Lady of a Public Enemy!’ Director Vincent Sherman’s richly enjoyable 1950 flashback-told black and white film noir crime melodrama The Damned Don’t Cry provides a good role for Joan Crawford to do what […]

Jan, 11

Berserk ** (1967, Joan Crawford, Ty Hardin, Diana Dors, Michael Gough, Robert Hardy, Geoffrey Keen, Judy Geeson, Philip Madoc, Sydney Tafler) – Classic Movie Review 3255

Joan Crawford came to England in 1967 f­­or her penultimate movie Berserk to play Monica Rivers, the owner and ringmaster of a struggling circus enjoying the fame and renewed success arising from a series of […]

Jan, 09

Strait-Jacket *** (1964, Joan Crawford, Diane Baker, Leif Erickson, Howard St John, John Anthony Hayes, Rochelle Hudson, George Kennedy, Edith Atwater) – Classic Movie Review 3251

‘Tina, bring me the axe’. Joan Crawford stars in the 1964 horror movie Strait-Jacket as an axe-wielding killer. Producer-director William Castle casts the great Joan Crawford, aged 59 in 1964, who follows up her success in […]

Jan, 08

The Saint’s Return [The Saint’s Girl Friday] *** (1953, Louis Hayward, Naomi Chance, Sydney Tafler, Charles Victor, Harold Lang, Diana Dors, Jane Carr) – Classic Movie Review 3228

‘When he hits London…blondes…bullets…and blackmail…set him up FOR THE KILL!!’ Director Seymour Friedman’s 1953 crime mystery thriller for Hammer Films (released in the US as The Saint’s Girl Friday) is a very watchable British stab at reviving […]

Jan, 04

The Saint’s Vacation *** (1941, Hugh Sinclair, Sally Gray, Cecil Parker, Arthur Macrae, Gordon McLeod, Leueen MacGrath, Felix Aylmer) – Classic Movie Review 3226

Hugh Sinclair takes over the halo from George Sanders as Simon Templar in the seventh of the RKO Pictures’ The Saint series, co-written by original author Leslie Charteris and produced and filmed in the UK. […]

Jan, 04

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