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Eyewitness ** (1956, Donald Sinden, Muriel Pavlow, Belinda Lee, Michael Craig, Nigel Stock, Susan Beaumont, David Knight) – Classic Movie Review 11,922

Director Muriel Box’s 1956 British film Eyewitness stars Donald Sinden, Muriel Pavlow, Belinda Lee, Michael Craig, Nigel Stock, Susan Beaumont and David Knight. It is made and released by the Rank Organisation. Eyewitness is an […]

Feb, 10

Inspector Maigret [Maigret tend un piège] [Maigret Sets a Trap] **** (1958, Jean Gabin, Annie Girardot, Olivier Hussenot, Jeanne Boitel, André Valmy, Lino Ventura, Jean Desailly) – Classic Movie Review 9543

Jean Gabin gives a tremendous performance as Georges Simenon’s famed pipe-smoking police inspector Maigret, investigating Jack the Ripper-type knife-murders of women in Paris’s seedy Montmartre. Director Jean Delannoy’s extremely satisfying, top-level 1958 French police thriller […]

Mar, 22

Variety [Varieté] **** (1925, Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Lya De Putti) – Classic Movie Review 7642

Director Ewald André Dupont’s 1925 Variety [aka Varieté, or Jealousy or Vaudeville] is an exciting German classic silent melodrama of fierily aroused passion, with an impressive silent movie performance by Emil Jannings as angry, betrayed trapeze artist […]

Oct, 07

Count the Hours! *** (1953, Teresa Wright, Macdonald Carey, Dolores Moran, Jack Elam) – Classic Movie Review 5,250

Director Don Siegel’s 1953 crime film noir Count the Hours! stars Macdonald Carey as a lawyer who defends a migrant worker falsely accused of two murders. Macdonald Carey stars as a lawyer who battles to release […]

Apr, 04

The Phantom Speaks *** (1945, Richard Arlen, Stanley Ridges, Lynne Roberts, Tom Powers, Charlotte Wynters, Jonathan Hale) – Classic Movie Review 5101

Director John English’s neat and nifty little 1945 horror thriller stars Richard Arlen, Stanley Ridges and Lynne Roberts, who make a grand job of John K Butler’s original screenplay in which the evil spirit of an executed […]

Mar, 04

Calling Dr Death *** (1943, Lon Chaney Jr, Patricia Morison, J Carrol Naish, Ramsay Ames) – Classic Movie Review 3751

Director Reginald Le Borg’s 1943 thriller is the first Inner Sanctum series entry starring Lon Chaney Jr as Dr Mark Steele who believes that he could have murdered his unfaithful, conniving wife Maria (Ramsay Ames) […]

May, 24

And Then There Were None ***** (1945, Walter Huston, Barry Fitzgerald, Louis Hayward, Roland Young, Richard Haydn, Judith Anderson, June Duprez, C Aubrey Smith) – Classic Movie Review 3,264

French film director René Clair turns Agatha Christie’s classic mystery novel and play into the richly stylish 1945 American black comedy mystery thriller film And Then There Were None. It is a great piece of […]

Jan, 13

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