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La Chienne ***** (1931, Michel Simon, Janie Marèse, Georges Flamant) – Classic Movie Review 10,145

Bank clerk Maurice Legrand (Michel Simon), married to ghastly Adèle (Magdeleine Bérubet), murders his faithless prostitute-mistress Lulu (Janie Marèse), then pins the blame on her pimp Dede (Georges Flamant) whom she loves, in director Jean […]

Aug, 08

Portnoy’s Complaint * (1972, Richard Benjamin, Karen Black, Lee Grant) – Classic Movie Review 10,142

Philip Roth’s scandalous book about a neurotic Jewish boy’s troubles with his mother and sex is turned into the none-too-funny, mostly unmoving 1972 film Portnoy’s Complaint by esteemed writer Ernest Lehman in his directorial début. […]

Aug, 07

Frankenhooker * (1990, James Lorinz, Joanne Ritchie, Patty Mullen) – Classic Movie Review 10,084

Writer-director Frank Henenlotter’s 1990 cult black comedy horror Frankenhooker is a zesty, enterprising and gleeful homage to Mary Shelley, the Frankenstein films and low-budget gore movies, mixing horror, gore and comedy, but it is fairly […]

Jul, 25

Mitchell *** (1975, Joe Don Baker, Martin Balsam, John Saxon, Linda Evans) – Classic Movie Review 10,052

Director Andrew McLaglen’s 1975 thriller Mitchell stars Joe Don Baker, who is well cast as Mitchell, a rough cop (‘brute force with a badge’) relentlessly pursuing a crime gang in Los Angeles in this tense, […]

Jul, 18

The Strange One *** (1957, Ben Gazzara, George Peppard, Peter Mark Richman, Pat Hingle) – Classic Movie Review 10,011

Director Jack Garfein’s 1957 black and white drama The Strange One is a powerful, up-front hothouse US Southern military academy saga, in which Ben Gazzara stars as cadet leader Jocko De Paris, who exercises a […]

Jul, 07

Go Naked in the World * (1961, Gina Lollobrigida, Anthony Franciosa, Ernest Borgnine) – Classic Movie Review 9903

Writer-director Ranald MacDougall’s 1961 film Go Naked in the World might have worked as a frothy comedy in the 1930s, but not as romantic drama in 1961, and the result is a leaden concoction with […]

Jun, 13

One More Train to Rob ** (1971, George Peppard, Diana Muldaur, John Vernon) – Classic Movie Review 9761

The 1971 Western film One More Train to Rob, about the aftermath of an assault on a trainload of gold ending up with the hero being framed and sent to prison, features a star turn […]

May, 13

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