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Convict 99 *** (1938, Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Basil Radford, Googie Withers) – Classic Movie Review 8391
Will Hay gets to do his priceless tatty teacher turn again as disgraced school master Dr Benjamin Twist, in director Marcel Varnel’s pleasant and mildly amusing 1938 vintage British black and white comedy Convict 99, […]
Up the River *** (1930, Spencer Tracy, Warren Hymer, Claire Luce, Humphrey Bogart) – Classic Movie Review 8029
Director John Ford’s 1930 comedy crime drama Up the River is an amusing junior-league Ford prison comedy, with the main interest less in the original story by Maurine Dallas Watkins and the script than in the teaming of […]
Castle on the Hudson [Years Without Days] ** (1940, John Garfield, Ann Sheridan, Pat O’Brien, Burgess Meredith, Henry O’Neill, Jerome Cowan) – Classic Movie Review 8022
John Garfield enjoys an acting field day as mobster Tommy Gordon, the gem-crook gangster who refuses to participate in a Sing Sing prison break because it is his unlucky day, in director Anatole Litvak’s 1940 […]
Law and Disorder *** (1958, Michael Redgrave, Robert Morley, Ronald Squire, Joan Hickson, Lionel Jeffries) – Classic Movie Review 7990
‘Michael Redgrave with an ingenious hand for disorder … Robert Morley as the intrepid arm of the law.’ Director Charles Crichton’s 1958 Law and Disorder is a smart, pacy and amusing Ealing Studios-style caper comedy, […]
The Safecracker *** (1958, Ray Milland, Barry Jones, Jeanette Sterke) – Classic Movie Review 7918
Ray Milland directs and stars in the 1958 British low-budget film noir thriller The Safecracker, an involving, fact-based story of a locksmith, gone criminal as an antiques robber, freed from a 10-year jail term in […]
Mary Queen of Scots ** (2018, Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, Jack Lowden, Adrian Lester, Guy Pearce, Joe Alwyn, James McArdle, David Tennant) – Movie Review
Director Josie Rourke’s modern re-interpretation of the tragic historical story of Mary Queen of Scots is vivid and ambitious. Unfortunately, it is not a happy, feel-good story, and the film is more on the interesting […]
Blown Away *** (1994, Jeff Bridges, Tommy Lee Jones, Suzy Amis, Lloyd Bridges, Forest Whitaker) – Classic Movie Review 7677
Director Stephen Hopkins’s 1994 action crime thriller Blown Away is an involving, suspenseful and intelligent thriller but at the same time it is uncomfortable and exploitative feeling. Jeff Bridges stars as Boston bomb squad man […]