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San Quentin ** (1946, Lawrence Tierney, Barton MacLane, Marian Carr, Harry Shannon, Raymond Burr) – Classic Movie Review 11,482
RKO’s 1946 thriller film San Quentin features Raymond Burr, aged 29, in his credited film début as ruthless killer Jeff Torrance. Director Gordon M Douglas’s 1946 RKO Radio Pictures thriller film San Quentin features Raymond […]
Un Condamné à Mort S’est Échappé [A Man Escaped] ***** (1956, François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock) – Classic Movie Review 9554
Director Robert Bresson’s 1956 French film Un Condamné à Mort S’est Échappé ou Le Vent Souffle où il Veut [A Man Escaped] is the brilliantly made, stark, true story of a captured French Resistance fighter, […]
The Hot Rock [How to Steal a Diamond in Four Uneasy Lessons] **** (Robert Redford, George Segal, Ron Leibman, Paul Sand, Zero Mostel, Moses Gunn, William Redfield) – Classic Movie Review 8854
Director Peter Yates’s thoroughly enjoyable and entirely amusing 1972 comedy thriller heist caper yarn The Hot Rock [How to Steal a Diamond in Four Uneasy Lessons] stars Robert Redford, George Segal, Ron Leibman, Paul Sand, […]
Twilight’s Last Gleaming **** (1977, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Charles Durning, Melvyn Douglas, Paul Winfield, Burt Young, Joseph Cotten) – Classic Movie Review 8239
Director Robert Aldrich’s 1977 thriller Twilight’s Last Gleaming is a gleaming, smart thriller, starring Burt Lancaster as Lawrence Dell, a maverick Air Force general who escapes from a military prison and captures a US missile […]
The Old Man & the Gun *** (2018, Robert Redford, Casey Affleck, Sissy Spacek, Danny Glover, Tom Waits) – Movie Review
Robert Redford twinkles and is endlessly charismatic as real-life bank robber Forrest Tucker, who escaped from San Quentin at the age of 70 and carried out a string of gentlemanly heists, with the help of […]
Caged Heat *** (1974, Juanita Brown, Erica Gavin, Roberta Collins, Barbara Steele) – Classic Movie Review 5361
Writer-director Jonathan Demme makes his impressive and inventive film début in 1974 with this women-in-prison exploitation movie, made for producer Roger Corman. A sensationalist tale of rape, riot and revenge, it is the start of a […]
The Scarlet Blade *** (1963, Oliver Reed, Lionel Jeffries, Jack Hedley, June Thorburn, Duncan Lamont, Michael Ripper, Suzan Farmer) – Classic Movie Review 3279
Writer-director John Gilling’s bright and jolly 1963 Hammer Films period adventure movie The Scarlet Blade stars a dashing young Oliver Reed, who grabs his turn to swash an athletic buckle as the star of producer […]