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- Man Detained *** (1961, Bernard Archard, Elvi Hale, Paul Stassino, Michael Coles) – Classic Movie Review 13,327
- Hand in Hand *** (1960, Loretta Parry, Philip Needs, Sybil Thorndike, John Gregson, Finlay Currie, Derek Sydney, Miriam Karlin, Kathleen Byron) – Classic Movie Review 13,327
- Attempt to Kill ** (1961, Tony Wright, Derek Farr, Richard Pearson, Freda Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 13,326
- A Hitch in Time *** (1978, Patrick Troughton, Michael McVey, Pheona McLellan, Jeff Rawle, Sorcha Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 13,325
- Man at the Carlton Tower *** (1961, Maxine Audley, Lee Montague, Alfred Burke, Allan Cuthbertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,324
- Beyond the Door [Chi Sei?] [The Devil Within Her] * (1974, Juliet Mills, Richard Johnson, Gabriele Lavia, Elizabeth Turner, David Colin Jr) – Classic Movie Review 13,323
- Beyond the Door II [Schock] *** (1979, Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, David Colin Jr, Ivan Rassimov) – Classic Movie Review 13,322
- Blood Red ** (1989, Eric Roberts, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Hopper, Burt Young) – Classic Movie Review 13,321
- The Fourth Square *** (1961, Conrad Phillips, Natasha Parry, Delphi Lawrence, Miriam Karlin, Jacqueline Jones, Anthony Newlands, Basil Dignam, Harold Kasket) – Classic Movie Review 13,316
- Black Memory *** (1947, Michael Atkinson, Michael Medwin, Myra O’Connell, Jane Arden, Frank Hawkins) – Classic Movie Review 13,320
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The Maltese Falcon **** (1931, Bebe Daniels, Ricardo Cortez, Dudley Digges, Thelma Todd, Dwight Frye) – Classic Movie Review 2,465
Warner Bros’ 1931 thriller The Maltese Falcon is the first film of Dashiell Hammett’s famous crime novel. Ricardo Cortez stars as the wisecracking, cynical San Francisco gumshoe Sam Spade, who sets off on the trail […]
Mr Holmes ***½ (2015, Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Milo Parker, Frances de la Tour) – Movie Review
With a bit of Gandalf in there, and looking and sounding remarkably like Sir John Gielgud, Ian McKellen has a lot of fun slicing the ham as an aged, retired Sherlock Holmes. The great detective is […]
Billion Dollar Brain *** (1967, Michael Caine, Karl Malden, Ed Begley) – Classic Movie Review 2420
Michael Caine’s third and last movie in his 1960s trilogy as author Len Deighton’s bespectacled British private eye, ex-secret agent Harry Palmer is directed by the wayward but wildly talented Ken Russell in 1967. Having […]
The Big Store *** (1941, Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Tony Martin, Margaret Dumont, Virginia Grey, Douglass Dumbrille) – Classic Movie Review 2402
This Marx Brothers’ fifth and last film for MGM may possibly also be the least, but there are plenty of pleasures stocked up in this crazy comedy based on a story by Sgt Bilko’s creator, […]
Kiss Me Deadly **** (1955, Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Wesley Addy) – Classic Movie Review 2209
Producer-director Robert Aldrich’s 1955 film noir crime movie stars Ralph Meeker, who is on scalding form as Mickey Spillane’s private detective hero Mike Hammer. This first-rate Aldrich thriller is a hugely imaginative, ahead-of-its-time study in paranoia. […]
The Late Show ***** (1977, Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy, Joanna Cassidy, Eugene Roche, John Considine) – Classic Movie Review 2072
Writer-director Robert Benton (Kramer vs, Kramer) brings all his brio and class to this stupendous, utterly beguiling 1977 neo-noir mystery movie, the fondest possible homage you could imagine to 40s film noir detective thrillers. It’s advertised as […]
Devil in a Blue Dress ****½ (1995, Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals) – Classic Movie Review 1954
Writer-director Carl Franklin’s Chandler-esque 1995 neo-noir whodunit provides a perfect role for Denzel Washington, who is great as 40s LA private eye Easy Rawlins. Based on the novel by Walter Mosley, this is a superbly […]