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The Cheap Detective ** (1978, Peter Falk, Ann-Margret, John Houseman, Louise Fletcher, Nicol Williamson, Fernando Lamas, Madeline Kahn, Dom DeLuise) – Classic Movie Review 6793

The actors seem to be having a good time in the 1978 comedy The Cheap Detective sending up Humphrey Bogart’s films in a 1940 San Francisco-set parody with Peter Falk as a Bogart-style character called […]

Mar, 12

Mystery Submarine ** (1950, Macdonald Carey, Märta Torén, Robert Douglas, Carl Esmond, Ludwig Donath) – Classic Movie Review 6674

Director Douglas Sirk’s little-known 1952 thriller stars Macdonald Carey as undercover US Navy Intelligence Officer Dr Brett Young, who sets out to save naive duped widow Madeline Brenner (Swedish star Märta Torén) and kidnapped scientist Euro-boffin Dr Adolph […]

Feb, 10

Betrayed ** (1954, Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Victor Mature, Louis Calhern, O E Hasse) – Classic Movie Review 6,665

MGM’s creakily old-fashioned 1954 romantic spy drama film Betrayed stars Clark Gable as a wartime Dutch spy boss who recruits Carla Van Oven (Lana Turner) to liaise with dashing Resistance leader The Scarf (Victor Mature). […]

Feb, 09

Operation Crossbow **** (1965, Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Richard Johnson, Tom Courtenay, Lilli Palmer, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms, Richard Todd) – Classic Movie Review 6449

The star-studded, slap-up 1965 World War Two wartime adventure movie Operation Crossbow stars Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Richard Johnson, and Tom Courtenay.  Director Michael Anderson’s star-studded, slap-up 1965 World War Two […]

Dec, 22

Hitler’s Madman [Hitler’s Hangman] *** (1943, Patricia Morison, John Carradine, Alan Curtis) – Classic Movie Review 6381

Director Douglas Sirk’s 1943 wartime drama was suggested as a World War Two moral-boosting movie by Eleanor Roosevelt, the US First Lady (1933-45), and is based on a tragic real story, though slightly fictionalized. It […]

Dec, 09

Jane and the Lost City ** (1987, Kirsten Hughes, Sam J Jones, Maud Adams, Jasper Carrott, Robin Bailey, Graham Stark, Elsa O’Toole) – Classic Movie Review 6201

Director Terry Marcel’s 1987 British action adventure comedy Jane and the Lost City stars Kirsten Hughes, Sam J Jones (aka Flash Gordon), Maud Adams, Jasper Carrott, Robin Bailey, Graham Stark and Elsa O’Toole. In World War Two, […]

Nov, 06

Lili Marleen *** (1981, Hanna Schygulla, Giancarlo Giannini, Mel Ferrer) – Classic Movie Review 6186

Co-writer/ director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s intriguing and stylish looking 1981 German film surprisingly overflows with sentiment and self-importance, and lacks the satiric bite and critical awareness of his best work. However, in other ways it […]

Nov, 04

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