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Just Off Broadway *** (1942, Lloyd Nolan, Marjorie Weaver, Phil Silvers, Janis Carter) – Classic Movie Review 12,155

Phil Silvers plays annoying news photographer Roy Higgins, who gets in the way of private detective Michael Shayne, in Lloyd Nolan’s penultimate film appearance in the series.  Director Herbert I Leeds’s 1942 black and white […]

Jun, 01

Blood Orange *** (1953, Tom Conway, Mila Parély, Naomi Chance) – Classic Movie Review 11,088

Director Terence Fisher’s 1953 Hammer Films low-budget black and white crime mystery thriller programmer Blood Orange stars Tom Conway as a private investigator called Tom Conway, who investigates after both a model (Delphi Lawrence) and […]

Apr, 10

The Lost Son ** (1999, Daniel Auteuil, Nastassja Kinski, Katrin Cartlidge) – Classic Movie Review 10,460

Director Chris Menges’s 1999 worrying, exploitative-feeling thriller The Lost Son is another really difficult, depressing movie, quality maybe but hard to like, with excellent French luminary Daniel Auteuil seeming lost and hollow speaking in English […]

Oct, 25

Consenting Adults * (1992, Kevin Kline, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Kevin Spacey, Rebecca Miller) – Classic Movie Review 10,117

The 1992 mystery crime drama Consenting Adults is a disastrous, preposterous film noir thriller from Alan J Pakula (trying to follow up Presumed Innocent) in which Priscilla Parker (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio)’s husband Richard (Kevin Kline) falls […]

Aug, 01

Decadence ** (1994, Joan Collins, Steven Berkoff, Christopher Biggins, Michael Winner, Marc Sinden) – Classic Movie Review 9649

The 1994 comedy drama Decadence is, as the poster says, ‘degenerate and disgusting’, but alas perhaps it is not also ‘deliciously funny’ as advertised, though it does have a certain oddball fascination, and its two […]

Apr, 18

City Heat ** (1984, Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Jane Alexander, Madeline Kahn, Rip Torn, Irene Cara, Richard Roundtree, Tony Lo Bianco) – Classic Movie Review 7566

Director Richard Benjamin’s 1984 period crime action comedy City Heat is a fairly damaging moment in the careers of Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood as both stars are forced to flounder desperately in a vacuum […]

Sep, 13

Good Neighbor Sam *** (1964, Jack Lemmon, Romy Schneider, Dorothy Provine, Senta Berger, Edward G Robinson) – Classic Movie Review 6231

Co-writer/ producer/ director David Swift’s 1964 comedy gives Jack Lemmon an archetypal role – a fussy married adman who pretends to be the new husband of his divorced neighbour (Romy Schneider) so that she can inherit […]

Nov, 11

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