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Manhattan Melodrama **** (1934, Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Jimmy Butler, Mickey Rooney, Leo Carrillo, Isabel Jewell) – Classic Movie Review 2,261

MGM’s famed 1934 crime film Manhattan Melodrama is the definitive version of an oft-told tale about two ghetto orphan kids (Jimmy Butler, Mickey Rooney) maturing into adult buddies (William Powell and Clark Gable) on opposite […]

Mar, 13

Phantom Lady ****½ (1944, Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, Alan Curtis, Thomas Gomez, Aurora Miranda) – Classic Movie Review 2257

Director Robert Siodmak’s 1944 movie is a thrilling mystery drama from the ace crime writer Cornell Woolrich. Alan Curtis plays Scott Henderson, an unhappily married man convicted of murdering his selfish wife when he’s been enjoying a one-night […]

Mar, 12

Dressed to Kill **** (1980, Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen) – Classic Movie Review 2189

Writer-director Brian De Palma’s all-stops-out 1980 thriller stars Angie Dickinson as Kate Miller, a sexually troubled housewife who goes to psychiatrist Doctor Robert Elliott (Michael Caine) for help as one of his patients. De Palma is once […]

Feb, 18

Fury ***** (1936, Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot, Edward Ellism Walter Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 2190

Co-writer/director Fritz Lang’s outstanding 1936 American drama film Fury finds Spencer Tracy on his most blistering form in this forceful, continuingly relevant attack on small-town mob violence. Lang’s American début provided an instant movie classic. He had […]

Feb, 18

While the City Sleeps **** (1956, Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders, Vincent Price, Ida Lupino, Howard Duff, Thomas Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 2,184

Fritz Lang’s fine 1956 film noir While the City Sleeps is inspired by the Chicago Lipstick Killer, and stars Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders and Vincent Price. The great director Fritz Lang’s bizarrely plotted […]

Feb, 18

Secret Beyond the Door ***½ (1947, Joan Bennett, Michael Redgrave, Anne Revere) – Classic Movie Review 2177

Fritz Lang’s 1947 American film noir psychological thriller Secret Beyond the Door updates the Bluebeard story about a woman (Joan Bennett) who suspects her new architect husband (Michael Redgrave) plans to kill her. Esteemed director […]

Feb, 14

The Woman in the Window ***** (1944, Edward G Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, Dan Duryea) – Classic Movie Review 2174

Fritz Lang’s superb 1944 film noir thriller The Woman in the Window stars Edward G Robinson as a professor obsessed with the portrait of a woman in the window next to his men’s club. While […]

Feb, 13

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