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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
Posts Tagged "prison"
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Papillon **** (1973, Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory) – Classic Movie Review 2967
Director Franklin J Schaffner’s 1973 prison drama stars a suitably gaunt-looking Steve McQueen as Henri ‘Papillon’ Charrière – the symbolic Butterfly of the story – in this long and expensive version of the best-selling novel by real-life […]
Le Cercle Rouge [The Red Circle] ***** (1970, Alain Delon, Yves Montand, Gian Maria Volontè, Bourvil) – Movie Review 2,822
Alain Delon stars a tough, cynical ex-con master crook in the 1970 Le Cercle Rouge [The Red Circle], his second of three thrilling films with Jean-Pierre Melville and fourth gangster movie. Alain Delon stars in […]
House of Frankenstein *** (1945, Boris Karloff, J Carrol Naish, John Carradine, Lon Chaney Jr, Glenn Strange, Lionel Atwill, George Zucco, Sig Ruman) – Classic Movie Review 2768
‘THE DEVIL’S BROOD! All the Screen’s Titans of Terror – Together in the Greatest of All SCREEN SENSATIONS!’ Monstrously hard to keep up with that, but director Erle C Kenton does his level best when […]
Thief [Violent Streets] **** (1981, James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Willie Nelson, James Belushi, Robert Prosky, Dennis Farina) – Classic Movie Review 2714
Writer-director Michael Mann’s intriguing and involving 1981 neo-noir heist thriller Thief is his cinema début as director after the TV movie The Jericho Mile in 1979. It showcases a rich and riveting James Caan performance […]
The Sugarland Express **** (1974, Goldie Hawn, Ben Johnson, Michael Sacks, William Atherton) – Classic Movie Review 2607
Goldie Hawn and William Atherton star as Lou Jean and Clovis Michael Poplin in director Steven Spielberg’s excellent 1974 comedy drama about two fugitives from the law. Director Spielberg was just 27 and still a […]
The Blues Brothers ***** (1980, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi) – Classic Movie Review 2606
Director John Landis spent what was then a movie fortune ($30million) of Universal Studios’ money on this wild, wacky and wayward 1980 car-crash chase comedy. Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi star in their most famous roles, re-created […]
The Bride Wore Black [La mariée était en noir] **** (1967, Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Bouquet, Charles Denner, Claude Rich, Michel Lonsdale, Daniel Boulanger) – Classic Movie Review 2,588
François Truffaut’s 1968 salute to Alfred Hitchcock, the French thriller film The Bride Wore Black, is a richly enjoyable, quirky entertainment. Jeanne Moreau is on great form as a widow who sets out to kill […]