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Each Dawn I Die **** (1939, James Cagney, George Raft, Jane Bryan) – Classic Movie Review 9,245

Warner Bros’ typically punchy 1939 film noir crime melodrama Each Dawn I Die stars James Cagney as a reporter framed by a corrupt DA and jailed for manslaughter. He is uniquely paired with George Raft […]

Jan, 09

The Hoodlum *** (1951 Lawrence Tierney, Allene Roberts, Marjorie Riordan) – Classic Movie Review 8,951

The 1951 film noir crime drama The Hoodlum stars Lawrence Tierney as a vicious jail parolee who pursues his life of crime again. Tierney’s real-life brother Edward plays the ex-con’s brother, who must do something. […]

Sep, 29

Breakout *** (1975, Charles Bronson, Robert Duvall, John Huston, Sheree North, Randy Quaid, Jill Ireland) – Classic Movie Review 7780

Director Tom Gries’s 1975 movie Breakout is a strongly cast, decent action thriller and a good star vehicle for Charles Bronson, who plays Nick Colton, a pilot paid to rescue innocent patsy Jay Wagner (Robert Duvall) […]

Nov, 12

The Great Impostor *** (1961, Tony Curtis, Raymond Massey, Karl Malden, Edmond O’Brien, Arthur O’Connell, Gary Merrill, Frank Gorshin) – Classic Movie Review 7,121

Tony Curtis stars as Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr, a cheat notorious for living in other people’s skins, in the wacky, revealing 1961 true-life comedy drama of false pretences The Great Impostor. Director Robert Mulligan’s wacky, […]

Jun, 05

Pennies from Heaven *** (1936, Bing Crosby, Edith Fellows, Madge Evans, Louis Armstrong, Donald Meek) – Classic Movie Review 6890

Bing Crosby stars as Larry Poole, a Thirties modern-day troubadour with ambitions to be a singing gondolier in Venice. But, after a short spell in jail on a trumped-up charge, he fulfills a promise to […]

Apr, 06

Convicted *** (1950, Glenn Ford, Broderick Crawford, Millard Mitchell, Dorothy Malone) – Classic Movie Review 5298

Director Henry Levin’s satisfactory 1950 Columbia Pictures prison drama is the usual stuff in about convicts in jail. It lacks thrills but it is earnest, sombre, decent and reliably acted by a strong cast. If […]

Apr, 15

The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence) * (2015, Dieter Laser, Laurence R Harvey, Eric Roberts, Bree Olson, Tom Six, Tommy ‘Tiny’ Lister, Clayton Rohner, Robert LaSardo) – Movie Review

The Human Centipede comes to a sticky end. German actor Dieter Laser (born 17 February 1942) returns from The Human Centipede (First Sequence) in 2009, which won him Best Actor at the Austin Fantastic Fest […]

Jul, 09

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