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How to Steal a Million *** (1966, Audrey Hepburn, Peter O’Toole, Eli Wallach, Hugh Griffith, Charles Boyer) – Classic Movie Review 5682

Peter O’Toole and Audrey Hepburn make a lovely couple and sail effortlessly though the 1966 caper film How to Steal a Million.  You might expect something a little bit more polished and classier – maybe […]

Jun, 28

Phantom of Chinatown *** (1940, Keye Luke, Lotus Long, Grant Withers) – Classic Movie Review 5610

Following Doomed to Die (1940), Boris Karloff gives up his Mr Wong role for the sixth and last of the Monogram Pictures series based on the work of Hugh Wiley. Grant Withers, however, returns as police Captain Street of the […]

Jun, 14

Abbott and Costello Meet Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde * (1953, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff, Reginald Denny, Craig Stevens, Helen Westcott) – Classic Movie Review 5590

Director Charles Lamont’s silly 1953 Universal monsters comedy chiller puts Boris Karloff back together with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello after their success with Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff in 1949. Reginald Denny also […]

Jun, 12

Dick Tracy ***½ (1990, Warren Beatty, Charlie Korsmo, Glenne Headly, Madonna, Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman) – Classic Movie Review 5568

Producer/ director/ star Warren Beatty’s blockbuster comic strip parody Dick Tracy, based on the comic strip characters created by Chester Gould, was 1990’s most-hyped movie. In a huge star turn, Beatty impersonates the Thirties cartoon-strip […]

Jun, 10

In the Name of the Father **** (1993, Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Emma Thompson, John Lynch, Corin Redgrave, Mark Sheppard) – Classic Movie Review 5543

Director Jim Sheridan’s 1993 film was Oscar nominated as Best Picture and rivetingly tells the story of the Guildford Four, young Irish people released after 12 years’ wrongful imprisonment after the IRA terrorist bombings of […]

Jun, 03

Mad Dog and Glory *** (1993, Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman, Bill Murray) – Classic Movie Review 5533

Produced by Martin Scorsese and Barbara de Fina, this dark and cynical 1993 thriller is a simple story of everyday violent folk, told with brio artificial style and remarkably little gore by John McNaughton, the […]

Jun, 02

Sisters [Blood Sisters] **** (1972, Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning) – Classic Movie Review 5,378

Brian De Palma casts Margot Kidder, Charles Durning and Jennifer Salt in his enjoyable, shocking, graphic 1972 psychological horror murder thriller Sisters [Blood Sisters]. Co-writer/ director Brian De Palma again employs Charles Durning and Jennifer Salt, who starred in his […]

May, 01

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