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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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The Pursuit of Happiness **½ (1971, Michael Sarrazin, Barbara Hershey, Robert Klein, Ruth White, E G Marshall, Arthur Hill) – Classic Movie Review 4943
‘I don’t want to run anymore…’ Michael Sarrazin stars in the 1971 crime drama The Pursuit of Happiness as a radical young college student, William Popper, who is jailed for his part in a road accident in […]
Stir Crazy *** (1980, Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Georg Stanford Brown, JoBeth Williams, Craig T Nelson) – Classic Movie Review 4822
Director Sidney Poitier’s amiable enough 1980 comedy again pairs Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor, this time as would-be actors Skip and Harry, who end up in America’s hinterlands, going Stir Crazy after being framed for […]
Porridge [Doing Time] ***½ (1979, Ronnie Barker, Richard Beckinsale, Peter Vaughan, Fulton Mackay, Brian Wilde, Sam Kelly) – Classic Movie Review 4772
Co-writer/ director Dick Clement’s funny 1979 film prison comedy Porridge [Doing Time] is a most entertaining, above-par transfer of the much-loved Seventies BBC TV sitcom about the inmates and warders of HM Slade Prison in […]
Caged **** (1950, Eleanor Parker, Agnes Moorehead, Ellen Corby, Hope Emerson, Jane Darwell, Betty Garde, Jan Sterling, Lee Patrick) – Classic Movie Review 4699
Director John Cromwell’s exciting 1950 film noir crime drama Caged stars Oscar nominated Eleanor Parker, who is outstanding as Marie Allen, a naïve 19-year-old teenager jailed for her innocent share in her husband’s gas-station heist […]
Forever Amber *** (1947, Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, Richard Greene, George Sanders, Glenn Langan, Richard Haydn, Jessica Tandy) – Classic Movie Review 4685
Director Otto Preminger turns Kathleen Winsor’s saucy and salty 1944 historical romantic novel, set in 1660s England, becomes a famous and costly but low-voltage 1947 bodice-ripper of a movie, thanks to poor casting and censorship […]
The Prisoner of Shark Island **** (1936, Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart, Joyce Kay, Claude Gillingwater, Douglas Wood, Harry Carey, Paul Fix, John Carradine) – Classic Movie Review 4679
Director John Ford’s 1936 historical drama makes a useful change of pace for the Westerns director, as he deals with his humanitarian tale of the unfair sentencing to life imprisonment in jail of Doctor Samuel […]
The Constant Husband [Marriage a la Mode] *** (1955, Rex Harrison, Margaret Leighton, Kay Kendall, Cecil Parker, Nicole Maurey, George Cole, Raymond Huntley, Jill Adams, Valerie French) – Classic Movie Review 4512
That sterling high-comedy actor Rex Harrison was lured back from Hollywood to British movies again with co-producer/ co-writer/ director Sidney Gilliat’s daft piece of fluff 1955 comedy film, with a delightful cast of players, most […]