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Que la Bête Meure [The Beast Must Die] **** (1969, Michel Duchaussoy, Caroline Cellier, Jean Yanne) – Classic Movie Review 12,182

Claude Chabrol’s suspenseful 1969 French psychological thriller film Que la Bête Meure [The Beast Must Die] is based on the 1938 detective novel by Cecil Day-Lewis, writing as Nicholas Blake. Writer-director Claude Chabrol’s suspenseful and […]

Jun, 19

Meet Boston Blackie ** (1941, Chester Morris, Rochelle Hudson, Richard Lane, Charles Wagenheim) – Classic Movie Review 11,215

Columbia Pictures’ 1941 black and white crime film Meet Boston Blackie stars Chester Morris in the first of his 14 B-movies as the notorious but honourable jewel thief Boston Blackie. ‘SPIES STALK CONEY ISLAND!’ Director […]

May, 17

Week-End in Havana ***½ (1941, Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, John Payne, Cesar Romero) – Classic Movie Review 9,933

20th Century Fox’s 1941 film Week-End in Havana is a highly engaging Forties wartime musical, with Alice Faye and Carmen Miranda on top singing form. It is 81 minutes of Technicolor escapist bliss. Director Walter […]

Jun, 19

Once Upon a Time *** (1944, Cary Grant, Janet Blair, James Gleason, Ted Donaldson) – Classic Movie Review 8404

Director Alexander Hall’s 1944 black and white satirical comedy Once Upon a Time stars Cary Grant as Jerry Flynn, a canny but cash-strapped theatre producer about to go bust, and story is about the hit […]

Apr, 27

Voyage of the Damned *** (1976, Faye Dunaway, Oskar Werner, Lee Grant, Sam Wanamaker, Lynne Frederick, Katharine Ross, Max von Sydow, James Mason, Malcolm McDowell) – Classic Movie Review 8319

Director Stuart Rosenberg’s honourable 1976 wartime drama Voyage of the Damned was nominated for three Oscars: Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Lee Grant), Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Steve Shagan […]

Apr, 01

Raid on Entebbe *** (1976, Peter Finch, Charles Bronson, Yaphet Kotto, Martin Balsam, Horst Buchholz, John Saxon, Jack Warden) – Classic Movie Review 7061

Director Irvin Kershner’s Raid on Entebbe was made as an NBC TV movie, aired on 9 January 1977, but, thanks to the good reviews it won and its popular all-star ensemble cast, a film version was then released […]

May, 16

Across the Pacific **** (1942, Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet) – Classic Movie Review 6453

The iconic great stars from The Maltese Falcon (1941) – Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor and Sydney Greenstreet – join up again with their director John Huston for this entertaining but more routine 1942 Second World War […]

Dec, 22

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