Recent Posts
- Dance Little Lady ** (1954, Terence Morgan, Mai Zetterling, Mandy Miller, Guy Rolfe, Eunice Gayson) – Classic Movie Review 13,361
- Larger Than Life * (1996, Bill Murray, Janeane Garofalo, Matthew McConaughy, Linda Fiorentino, Keith David, Pat Hingle, Jeremy Piven, Harve Presnell, Lois Smith) – Classic Movie Review 13,364
- The Happiness of Three Women ** (1954, Eynon Evans, Brenda de Banzie, Petula Clark, Patricia Cutts) – Classic Movie Review 13,363
- Wonder Man *** (1945, Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen, Donald Woods, S Z Sakall, Allen Jenkins, Edward Brophy, Otto Kruger, Steve Cochran) – Classic Movie Review 13,362
- The Summer with Carmen **** (2023, Yorgos Tsiantoulas, Andreas Lampropoulos, Nikolas Mihas, Roubini Vasilakopoulou, Vasilis Tsigristaris) – Classic Movie Review 13,361
- Pay or Die **** (1960, Ernest Borgnine, Alan Austin, Zohra Lampert, Robert F Simon, Renata Vanni, John Marley) – Classic Movie Review 13,360
- The Man Who Sued God *** (2001, Billy Connolly, Judy Davis, Colin Friels, Wendy Hughes) – Classic Movie Review 13,359
- Something Like Summer *** (2017, Grant Davis, Davi Santos, Ben Baur, Ajiona Alexus) – Classic Movie Review 13,358
- Feeling Randy *** (2024, Reid Miller, Jonathan Silverman, Marguerite Moreau) – Classic Movie Review 13,357
- Spotswood [The Efficiency Expert] *** (1991, Anthony Hopkins, Ben Mendelsohn, Alwyn Kurts, Bruno Lawrence, Angela Punch McGregor, Daniel Wyllie, Toni Collette, Russell Crowe) – Classic Movie Review 13,356
Posts Tagged "private eye"
Check out all of the posts tagged with "private eye".
The Drowning Pool *** (1975, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Melanie Griffith, Tony Franciosa, Murray Hamilton, Richard Jaeckel, Coral Browne) – Classic Movie Review 2935
Director Stuart Rosenberg’s 1975 mystery thriller The Drowning Pool stars Paul Newman, who reprises his role as Ross MacDonald’s cynical private eye Lew Harper (Archer in the novels) in an acceptable sequel to his far […]
Stolen Kisses [Baisers Volés] **** (1968, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Delphine Seyrig, Michel Lonsdale) – Classic Movie Review 2587
Co-writer/director François Truffaut’s 1968 Baisers Volés (Stolen Kisses) is the very welcome third episode in Truffaut’s Antoine Doinel series. The 25-year-old Jean-Pierre Léaud back again as Truffaut’s alter ego in the further adventures of the […]
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang *** (2005, Robert Downey Jr, Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan) – Classic Movie Review 1669
Robert Downey Jr appears with his son Indio in this tongue-in-cheek 2005 hardboiled crime comedy, written and directed by Shane Black, also starring Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan and Corbin Bernsen. Indio plays Downey’s character Harry Lockhart at […]
Secret Window *** (2004, Johnny Depp, Maria Bello, John Turturro) – Classic Movie Review 1627
Writer-director David Koepp’s erratically amusing 2004 thriller has the right star in Johnny Depp, who puts a gloss of polish on Stephen King’s chiller as Mort Rainey, an author afflicted by a bad hairstyle, writer’s […]
Harper [The Moving Target] **** (1966, Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris, Robert Wagner, Janet Leigh, Shelley Winters) – Classic Movie Review 1302
Director Jack Smight’s hard-boiled 1966 detective-mystery thriller casts Paul Newman in an ideal guise as Lew Harper, an archetypal Los Angeles mean streets private eye, who is hired by the rich, wounded and woeful Mrs […]
Shall We Dance ***½ (2004, Richard Gere, Jennifer Lopez, Susan Sarandon, Richard Jenkins, Bobby Cannavale, Stanley Tucci) – Classic Movie Review 1058
Richard Gere steps lively in director Peter Chelsom’s very entertaining, heart-warming 2004 remake of the 1995 Japanese movie. Married, workaholic lawyer John Clark (Gere) enrols at a dance studio, lured there by lovely Paulina (Jennifer Lopez) looking […]
Out of the Past [Build My Gallows High] ***** (1947, Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming) – Classic Movie Review 914
Robert Mitchum gives a legendary performance as a one-time private eye, caught between a mobster (Kirk Douglas) and a femme fatale (Jane Greer), in the brilliant 1947 film noir classic Out of the Past [Build […]