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Murder at 3am ** (1953, Dennis Price, Peggy Evans, Rex Garner) – Classic Movie Review 10,877

The 1953 British crime thriller film Murder at 3am stars Dennis Price as Inspector Peter Lawton of Scotland Yard investigating a series of baffling late-night murders of young women.  ‘Kill-crazy prowler strikes again!’ Director Francis […]

Feb, 04

Crimes at the Dark House *** (1940, Tod Slaughter, Sylvia Marriott, Hilary Eaves) – Classic Movie Review 10,868

Producer-director George King’s luridly melodramatic 1940 British black and white B-movie thriller Crimes at the Dark House gleefully turns the classic 1859 Wilkie Collins mystery novel The Woman in White into another absurdly amusing, over-the-top […]

Feb, 02

The Face at the Window *** (1939, Tod Slaughter, Marjorie Taylor, John Warwick, Aubrey Mallalieu) – Classic Movie Review 10,866

Producer-director George King’s 1939 thriller The Face at the Window stars Tod Slaughter at his most succulently barnstorming as Chevalier Lucio del Gardo in a 19th-century tale of an 1880 Paris deranged killer who keeps […]

Feb, 02

Criminal Law ** (1988, Gary Oldman, Kevin Bacon, Tess Harper) – Classic Movie Review 10,613

Director Martin Campbell’s 1988 Criminal Law is an interesting but none too convincing suspense thriller, with Britain’s Gary Oldman oddly cast as Ben Chase, a hotshot rising young Boston attorney who gets rich psycho killer Martin […]

Dec, 02

Mulholland Falls **** (1996, Nick Nolte, Melanie Griffith, Chris Penn, Bruce Dern, John Malkovich, Chazz Palminteri, Michael Madsen, Treat Williams, Jennifer Connelly, Daniel Baldwin, Kyle Chandler, Ed Lauter) – Classic Movie Review 10,522

Mulholland Falls (1996) is a great-looking, fine neo noir crime thriller with a fine cast to make it work. Nick Nolte stars as Max Hoover, with Melanie Griffith, Chris Penn, Bruce Dern, John Malkovich, Chazz […]

Nov, 10

Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring ** (1941, Ralph Bellamy, Margaret Lindsay, Charley Grapewin, Mona Barrie, Paul Hurst, James Burke, George Zucco, Blanche Yurka) – Classic Movie Review 10,504

Director James P Hogan’s 1941 Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring stars Ralph Bellamy for the fourth and final time as ace amateur sleuth Ellery Queen, with Margaret Lindsay and Charley Grapewin also returning as […]

Nov, 06

A Mind to Murder ** (1995, Roy Marsden, Frank Finlay, Jerome Flynn, Robert Pugh, George Costigan, Robert East, David Hemmings) – Classic Movie Review 10,449

Roy Marsden’s portrayal of Adam Dalgliesh in Anglia Television’s P D James detective series spans 15 years from Death of an Expert Witness (1983) to A Certain Justice (1998). The series began as adaptations in […]

Oct, 22

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