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The Grass Arena *** (1991, Mark Rylance, Lynsey Baxter, Pete Postlewaite, Marian McLoughlin, Billy Boyle) – Classic Movie Review 11,788
Director Gillies Mackinnon’s 1991 BBC TV Screen Two film The Grass Arena stars Mark Rylance, who gives a compelling performance in a gritty true-life story about a man whose hopes of a boxing career are […]
Johnny Stool Pigeon *** (1949, Howard Duff, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, Gar Moore, Tony Curtis, John McIntire, Barry Kelley, Leif Erickson) – Classic Movie Review 11,407
Director William Castle’s 1949 American black and white film noir crime thriller Johnny Stool Pigeon stars Howard Duff, Shelley Winters and Dan Duryea, along with Gar Moore, Tony Curtis, John McIntire, Barry Kelley and Leif Erickson. […]
Island of Lost Men *** (1939, Anna May Wong, J Carrol Naish, Anthony Quinn, Broderick Crawford, Eric Blore, Ernest Truex) – Classic Movie Review 10,746
Director Kurt Neumann’s 1939 black and white crime thriller film Island of Lost Men is a stock adventure yarn in which oriental daughter cabaret singer Kim Ling (Anna May Wong) discovers that her absconded Chinese […]
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich ***½ (1970, Tom Courtenay, Espen Skjønberg, Alf Malland, Alfred Burke, James Maxwell, Eric Thompson, Matthew Guinness) – Classic Movie Review 10,719
Writer-producer-director Casper Wrede’s 1970 Norwegian biographical drama One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stars Tom Courtenay, who is remarkable as Ivan Denisovich, the prisoner serving a harsh sentence of 10 years in a […]
Runaway Train *** (1985, Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca De Mornay) – Classic Movie Review 9481
Director Andrei Konchalovsky’s 1985 Cannon Group adventure movie Runaway Train is a solid but over-blown mythical action thriller, with outsize performances by Jon Voight and Eric Roberts as escaping prisoners on an out-of-control train speeding […]
Escape from Pretoria **** (2020, Daniel Radcliffe, Daniel Webber, Ian Hart, Nathan Page) – Movie Review
Co-writer/ director Francis Annan’s real-life thriller Escape from Pretoria is a good old-fashioned prison escape story, with a commendably intense and non-starry performance by Daniel Radcliffe as a Seventies jailed ANC activist who makes a huge […]
Albert RN [Break to Freedom] **** (1953, Anthony Steel, Jack Warner, Robert Beatty) – Classic Movie Review 9159
Director Lewis Gilbert’s 1953 Albert RN [Break to Freedom] is a deservedly famous British Fifties World War Two prisoner-of-war camp movie, with notable stiff-upper-lipped acting, in which the true Brits, fed up with escapes that […]