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The Ragman’s Daughter *** (1972, Simon Rouse, Victoria Tennant, Patrick O’Connell, Leslie Sands) – Classic Movie Review 10,842

Director Harold Becker’s 1972 British crime-drama romantic film The Ragman’s Daughter stars Simon Rouse and Victoria Tennant in her screen debut and is adapted by Alan Sillitoe from his short story. Simon Rouse plays a Nottingham ne’er-do-well […]

Jan, 28

Super Fly [Superfly] *** (1972, Ron O’Neal, Carl Lee, Sheila Frazier) – Classic Movie Review 9989

Director Gordon Parks Jr’s successful though controversial 1972 action crime thriller Super Fly [Superfly] is a hit from the wave of 1970s blaxploitation movies, with Ron O’Neal working hard as Youngblood Priest/ Super Fly, a […]

Jul, 02

The Seven-Ups **** (1973, Roy Scheider, Tony Lo Bianco, Victor Arnold, Jerry Leon, Ken Kercheval) – Classic Movie Review 9,988

The 1973 The Seven-Ups is an edge-of-seat cop thriller, with NYPD Detective Buddy Manucci (Roy Scheider) getting his mobster buddy Vito Lucia (Tony Lo Bianco) to help him catch the meanest bad guys. Producer-director Philip […]

Jul, 01

Cannonball [Carquake] *** (1976, David Carradine, Bill McKinney, Veronica Hamel) – Classic Movie Review 9320

Co-writer/ director Paul Bartel’s 1976 Cannonball [Carquake] is a follow-up in similar action vein to his 1975 hit Death Race 2000, this time a full-on Seventies-style slap-up comedy action adventure about the ruthless people, chiefly Coy […]

Jan, 29

Revenge [Inn of the Frightened People] ** (1971, Joan Collins, James Booth, Ray Barrett, Sinéad Cusack, Kenneth Griffith) – Classic Movie Review 9315

Joan Collins tops the bill as Carol Radford, in director Sidney Hayers’s unedifying but efficient country-set 1971 British revenge thriller Revenge [Inn of the Frightened People] about two men visiting the recluse they suspect has […]

Jan, 29

Order of Death [Cop Killer] [l’assassino dei poliziotti] *** (1983, Harvey Keitel, John Lydon, Nicole Garcia, Leonard Mann, Sylvia Sidney) – Classic Movie Review 9086

Director Roberto Faenza’s fascinating 1983 Italian crime thriller Order of Death [Cop Killer] [l’assassino dei poliziotti] [Corrupt] is a tautly made and intriguingly written thriller based on Hugh Fleetwood’s 1977 psychological novel The Order of […]

Nov, 21

And Hope to Die [La course du lièvre à travers les champs] *** (1972, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Robert Ryan, Lea Massari, Aldo Ray, Tisa Farrow) – Classic Movie Review 8892

Director René Clément’s fair, often compelling, but muddled 1972 international thriller And Hope to Die [La course du lièvre à travers les champs] stars Jean-Louis Trintignant as Antoine Cardot aka Froggy, a French crook on […]

Sep, 10

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