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The Very Edge ** (1963, Anne Heywood, Richard Todd, Jack Hedley, Jeremy Brett, Nicole Maurey, Maurice Denham) – Classic Movie Review 9753

Despite the good cast, a useful premise and a bright screenplay by Elizabeth Jane Howard, director Cyril Frankel’s 1963 psychological thriller The Very Edge ends up as a mere borderline timepasser but still in the interesting […]

May, 12

Flareup ** (1969, Raquel Welch, James Stacy, Luke Askew, Ron Rifkin) – Classic Movie Review 9575

Director James Neilson’s 1969 exciting but dodgy exploiter thriller Flareup stars Raquel Welch, who flashes her lovely thighs (presumably on the principle that if you’ve got it, flaunt it) as dancer Michele while dancing at […]

Mar, 29

A Cry in the Night *** (1956, Raymond Burr, Edmond O’Brien, Brian Donlevy, Natalie Wood, Richard Anderson, Irene Hervey) – Classic Movie Review 8900

‘THE TEEN-AGE DATE IN LOVERS’ LANE THEY’LL NEVER LET HER FORGET!’ Director Frank Tuttle’s 1956 film noir A Cry in the Night stars Raymond Burr, who is typecast again as a creepy, mother-fixated heavy and […]

Sep, 12

The Mean Season **** (1985, Kurt Russell, Mariel Hemingway, Richard Jordan, Richard Masur, Richard Bradford, Joe Pantoliano, Andy Garcia) – Classic Movie Review 7652

Director Phillip Borsos’s 1985 neo noir The Mean Season is a gripping, powerful, atmospheric crime thriller with an excellent role for Kurt Russell as Malcolm Anderson, the Miami newspaper reporter used as a public mouthpiece […]

Oct, 09

78/52 **** (2017) – Movie Review

Director Alexandre O Philippe dissects the Psycho shower murder scene to riveting effect, with the help of some remarkable, over-excited experts and some great vintage clips. It is, quite obviously, a film buff’s paradise, and […]

Oct, 12

Homicidal ***½ (1961, Joan Marshall, Glenn Corbett, Patricia Breslin, Eugenie Leontovich, Alan Bunce, Richard Rust) – Classic Movie Review 4700

Producer-director William Castle’s mysterious and eerie 1961 Psycho-style shocker is patently absurd but compelling none the less. It stars Joan Marshall as a homicidal nurse called Emily, who shares a mansion with a paralysed Swedish […]

Nov, 25

The Night Walker *** (1964, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Taylor, Lloyd Bochner, Rochelle Hudson, Judith Meredith, Hayden Rorke, Marjorie Bennett, Jess Barker) – Classic Movie Review 4698

Barbara Stanwyck stars here in 1964 in her last movie as Irene Trent, a wealthy woman who has recurring nightmares, featuring both her apparently dead jealous, blind husband (Hayden Rorke) and a mysterious stranger (Lloyd Bochner), […]

Nov, 25

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