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Shoot to Kill [Police Reporter] ** (1947, Russell Wade, Luana Walters, Edmund MacDonald, Robert Kent) – Classic Movie Review 12,128

‘A Newspaperman… A Grafting Politician… And A Beautiful Girl… In A Story Of Underworld Revenge!’ Producer/ director William Berke’s impressively low budget quickie 1947 American film noir thriller Shoot to Kill, also known as Police […]

May, 21

Fort Worth *** (1951, Randolph Scott, Phyllis Thaxter, David Brian) – Classic Movie Review 7215

‘RANDOLPH SCOTT…the way Texas went was in his hands…and his six-guns set it straight!’ Director Edwin L Marin’s 1951 Technicolor Western Fort Worth stars Randolph Scott as gunslinger Ned Britt, who retires and then turns […]

Jun, 24

The Quiet American ** (1958, Audie Murphy, Michael Redgrave, Giorgia Moll, Claude Dauphin) – Classic Movie Review 5337

Writer-producer-director Joseph Mankiewicz’s 1958 movie uses half of Graham Greene’s distinguished bestselling novel, and then turns it into a love triangle story and murder-thriller, with lots of dialogue, pro-American stance and a Communist-bashing ending tailored […]

Apr, 23

Underworld USA **** (1961, Cliff Robertson, Dolores Dorn, Beatrice Kay, Larry Gates, Robert Emhardt, Paul Dubov, Richard Rust) – Classic Movie Review 3656

‘The Facts… The Faces… The Film That Cracks America’s Organized Crime Syndicate Wide Open!’ Writer-producer-director Samuel Fuller’s tough, hard-hitting 1961 neo-noir revenge crime drama thriller Underworld USA is lifted way out of the rut by […]

May, 04

Doctor X [Dr X] **** (1932, Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Lee Tracy) – Classic Movie Review 3,121

The wild and wonderful 1932 blood-curdling baroque horror film Doctor X [Dr X] stars Lionel Atwill as a mad scientist, Dr Jerry Xavier, the crazy full-moon serial strangler. ‘Out-Thrills Them All!’ Director Michael Curtiz’s wild […]

Dec, 02

Special Agent **½ (1935, Bette Davis, George Brent, Ricardo Cortez, Jack La Rue, Henry O’Neill) – Classic Movie Review 2746

Bette Davis and George Brent star in the brisk and capable 1935 crime drama film Special Agent, one of 13 movies they made together.  William Keighley directs this 1935 early Bette Davis star vehicle at […]

Jul, 28

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