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The Sicilian Cross (1976, Roger Moore, Stacy Keach, Ivo Garrani, Fausto Tozzi) – Classic Movie Review 10,232

Directors Maurizio Lucidi and Guglielmo [William] Garroni’s basic 1976 Italian gangster film The Sicilian Cross [Gli Esecutori] [Street People] [The Executors] stars Roger Moore as Ulysses [Ulisse], an Italian-American lawyer searching for a stolen heroin […]

Aug, 27

Cotton Comes to Harlem *** (1970, Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St Jacques, Calvin Lockhart) – Classic Movie Review 9494

Director Ossie Davis’s 1970 comedy crime action thriller Cotton Comes to Harlem stars Godfrey Cambridge and Raymond St Jacques as black detectives Gravedigger Jones (Cambridge) and Coffin Ed Johnson (St Jacques). The two Harlem cops […]

Mar, 11

I Mobster *** (1959, Steve Cochran, Lita Milan, Robert Strauss, Celia Lovsky, John Brinkley, John Mylong) – Classic Movie Review 6147

Director Roger Corman’s lively and lusty 1959 film noir crime drama movie I Mobster is your usual version of that usual, well-known yarn, used again in 1992 in Billy Bathgate and Mobsters, about a poor […]

Oct, 27

The Underneath *** (1995, Peter Gallagher, Elisabeth Shue, Alison Elliott) – Classic Movie Review 1578

Peter Gallagher stars as Michael Chambers, a gambler and former convict who comes back to Austin, Texas, to celebrate the wedding of his mother (Anjanette Comer). While in town he tries to reignite the old flame with his […]

Aug, 22

The Hustler ***** (1961, Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie, George C Scott) – Classic Movie Review 870

Paul Newman is outstanding as small-time pool hustler ‘Fast’ Eddie Felson, in the 1961 classic film The Hustler, and Piper Laurie is memorable as Newman’s troubled, alcoholic lost girl, Sarah Packard. In co-writer/director Robert Rossen’s […]

Mar, 06

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