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The Hitch-Hiker **** (1953, Edmond O’Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman) – Classic Movie Review 2563

Director Ida Lupino’s tense and compelling 1953 film noir The Hitch-Hiker has two fishing-trip travellers Roy Collins and Gilbert Bowen (Edmond O’Brien, Frank Lovejoy) leaving their wives and picking up the sinister hitch-hiker Emmett Myers (William Talman), a […]

Jun, 06

Black Coal, Thin Ice [Bai ri yan huo] **** (2014, Fan Liao, Lun Mei Gwei, Xuebing Wang) – Movie Review

Writer-director Yi’nan Diao’s cop mystery thriller starts with several dismembered corpses being discovered in a northern China small town and the investigating officer, Zhang (Fan Liao), coming up against a femme fatale (Lun Mei Gwei) working in a laundry. After a […]

Jun, 05

The Amityville Horror *** (1979, James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger) – Classic Movie Review 2520

The surprise blockbuster 1979 supernatural horror movie The Amityville Horror recycles the old, old haunted house story once more. It has been used over and over again and yet it is popular every time, though […]

May, 25

The Black Cat ***½ (1941, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard, Bela Lugosi Hugh Herbert, Broderick Crawford, Anne Gwynne, Gladys Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 2505

Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard and Bela Lugosi raise the hairs on the back of the neck in the spooky and amusing 1941 comedy-mystery horror movie The Black Cat. Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard, Bela Lugosi and […]

May, 20

Time to Kill **** (1942, Lloyd Nolan, Heather Angel, Ethel Griffies, James Seay, Doris Merrick) – Classic Movie Review 2497

Time to Kill (1942) is the first screen adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s novel The High Window and the final Michael Shayne film starring Lloyd Nolan made at Fox, which then closed down their popular B-movie […]

May, 17

The She-Creature ** (1956, Marla English, Chester Morris, Tom Conway, Cathy Downs, Ron Randell) – Classic Movie Review 2484

Director Edward L Cahn’s black-and-white 1956 low-budget horror monster movie The She-Creature stars Marla English and Tom Conway in the first of two films he directed with these stars, followed by Voodoo Woman in 1957. […]

May, 15

The Innocent Sleep *** (1996, Rupert Graves, Michael Gambon, Annabella Sciorra, Franco Nero, Oliver Cotton, Graham Crowden, John Hannah) – Classic Movie Review 2478

Director Scott Michell’s 1996 British thriller stars Rupert Graves who plays a real-life English north-country tramp called Alan Terry living homeless outside beside London’s Tower Bridge. One night he witnesses a killing, a mob execution. […]

May, 13

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