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Color Me Dead * (1969, Tom Tryon, Carolyn Jones, Rick Jason) – Classic Movie Review 6677

Producer-director Eddie Davis’s 1969 Australian remake of the 1950 film noir classic D.O.A. stars Tom Tryon as Frank Bigelow, an accountant who finds he has taken a slow-working deadly poison and must track down his […]

Feb, 11

D.O.A. *** (1988, Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, Charlotte Rampling, Daniel Stern) – Classic Movie Review 6676

The 1950 cult classic film noir crime thriller D.O.A. was remade in Australia in 1969 as Color Me Dead, directed by Eddie Davis, before this 1988 D.O.A. remake, directed Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton and starring Dennis […]

Feb, 11

The Young Poisoner’s Handbook **** (1995, Hugh O’Conor, Antony Sher, Ruth Sheen, Roger Lloyd Pack, Charlotte Coleman, Tobias Arnold, Frank Mills) – Classic Movie Review 5542

Hugh O’Conor gets his first starring role with co-writer/ director Benjamin Ross’s dark and provocative British crime comedy drama, in which he plays intelligent but amoral British teenager Graham Young, an amateur toxicologist unwisely paroled from […]

Jun, 03

Roman Scandals **** (1933, Eddie Cantor, Gloria Stuart, Ruth Etting, Edward Arnold, Alan Mowbray, Verree Teasdale, Jane Darwell, David Manners) – Classic Movie Review 5137

Director Frank Tuttle’s 1933 movie stars Eddie Cantor as an endearing, kind-hearted young simpleton called Eddie, who falls asleep and dreams he goes back to ancient Rome. This jolly vintage musical is raised high with Cantor’s […]

Mar, 11

The Court Jester ***** (1955, Danny Kaye, Basil Rathbone, Mildred Natwick, Cecil Parker, Glynis Johns, Angela Lansbury) – Classic Movie Review 4576

The five-star 1955 classic comedy adventure The Court Jester from writer-directors Norman Panama and Melvin Frank is the one Danny Kaye film to take with you to a desert island. It is a deliriously carefree […]

Nov, 02

Never Mention Murder **½ (1964, Dudley Foster, Maxine Audley, Peter Butterworth, Michael Coles, Pauline Yates) – Classic Movie Review 3,681

Dudley Foster stars as a creepy murderous chief surgeon in the tense, gripping and worthwhile 1964 Edgar Wallace crime thriller Never Mention Murder. Director John Nelson Burton’s 1964 British second feature mystery film Never Mention […]

May, 09

Vampyr [Castle of Doom] ***** (1932, Julian West, Henriette Gérard, Sybille Schmitz, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel) – Classic Movie Review 3513

Danish co-writer/ producer/ director Carl Theodor Dreyer’s creepy and compelling first sound film from 1932 tells the haunting tale of a callow, supernatural-obsessed drifter called Allan Gray (Julian West), who arrives by night at a lonely secluded […]

Apr, 02

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