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- The End of the Line * (1957, Alan Baxter, Barbara Shelley, Arthur Gomez, Jennifer Jayne, Ferdy Mayne) – Classic Movie Review 13,270
- Incident at Phantom Hill **½ (1966, Robert Fuller, Dan Duryea, Jocelyn Lane, Claude Akins, Noah Beery Jr) – Classic Movie Review 13,269
- Naked Fury ** (1959, Reed de Rouen, Kenneth Cope, Leigh Madison) – Classic Movie Review 13,268
- Bones and Names [Knochen und Namen] *** (2023, Fabian Stumm in his feature directorial debut, starring himself along with Knut Berger, Marie-Lou Sellem, Susie Meyer) – Classic Movie Review 13,267
- The Guilty *** (2021, Jake Gyllenhaal) – Classic Movie Review 13,266
- Five Golden Dragons * (1967, Robert Cummings, Christopher Lee, Rupert Davies, Margaret Lee, Klaus Kinski, Brian Donlevy, Dan Duryea, George Raft) – Classic Movie Review 13,265
- The Inspector General *** (1949, Danny Kaye, Walter Slezak, Barbara Bates, Elsa Lanchester, Gene Lockhart) – Classic Movie Review 13,264
- Yossi & Jagger ***½ (2002, Ohad Knoller, Yehuda Levi, Asi Cohen, Aya Koren) – Classic Movie Review 13,263
- Call Her Savage ** (1932, Clara Bow, Gilbert Roland, Monroe Owsley) – Classic Movie Review 13,262
- Dangerous Cargo ** (1954, Jack Watling, Susan Stephen, Karel Stepanek, Terence Alexander) – Classic Movie Review 13,261
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Despicable Me 3 ** (2017, voices of Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Trey Parker) – Movie Review
Busy, fast-moving quirky, surreal, and borderline weird at times, Despicable Me 3 goes its own sweet way. Steve Carell gets to be a very, very busy man as the voices of twin brothers – his voices are […]
Riot in Cell Block 11 **** (1954, Neville Brand, Emile Meyer, Frank Faylen, Leo Gordon) – Classic Movie Review 5657
Director Don Siegel’s masterly 1954 prison drama is low on budget but high on social concern and urgency as a plea for reform of the American prison system and conditions in US jails. It is […]
Two Against the Law [Deux Hommes dans la Ville] [Two Men in Town] **** (1973, Alain Delon, Jean Gabin, Mimsy Farmer, Victor Lanoux, Michel Bouquet) – Classic Movie Review 5627
French New Wave icon Alain Delon stars in co-writer/ director José Giovanni’s 1973 Franco-Italian drama film as former bank robber and ex-safe cracker Gino Strabliggi, a recently early released prisoner who has served 10 years […]
The Big House **** (1930, Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Robert Montgomery, Lewis Stone) – Classic Movie Review 5346
Author Frances Marion won the Academy Award for writing the story and dialogue (Best Writing Achievement) of director George Hill’s convincing, mould-forming 1930 prison drama. Sound director Douglas Shearer also won the first Academy Award […]
The Longest Yard [The Mean Machine] ***** (1974, Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter, Michael Conrad) – Classic Movie Review 5316
Robert Aldrich said about Burt Reynolds: ‘On occasion he’s a much better actor than he’s given credit for. Not always. Sometimes he acts like a caricature of himself. I thought he was very good in […]
Penitentiary ** (1938, Walter Connolly, John Howard, Jean Parker, Robert Barrat, Marc Lawrence) – Classic Movie Review 5297
Director John Brahm’s 1938 Columbia Pictures remake of Howard Hawks’s classic prison drama movie The Criminal Code (1931) is watchable but a lesser and largely unnecessary movie. It stars Walter Connolly, John Howard, Jean Parker, Robert Barrat […]
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 […]