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Good Day for a Hanging ** (1959, Fred MacMurray, Margaret Hayes, Robert Vaughn, Joan Blackman, James Drury) – Classic Movie Review 9742

  ‘Bloody, blistering violence as a baby-face goon explodes against the girl who loves him… while the mob stands ready to tear out his guts before the law can hang him!’ Director Nathan H Juran’s […]

May, 10

Knock on Any Door *** (1949, Humphrey Bogart, John Derek, George Macready, Allene Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 6765

Nicholas Ray’s intelligent 1949 courtroom melodrama Knock on Any Door stars Humphrey Bogart as a lawyer defending a Chicago slum kid (John Derek) from a cop killer murder rap by trying to appeal to the […]

Mar, 04

Hollow Triumph [The Scar] *** (1948, Paul Henreid, Joan Bennett, Eduard Franz) – Classic Movie Review 3317

Director Steve Sekely’s well-done, sterling 1948 film noir Hollow Triumph [The Scar] stars Paul Henreid as medical school dropout John Muller, a thief and murderer desperately trying to escape the vindictive big-time gambler he stole […]

Feb, 03

The Cyclops *** (1957, James Craig, Gloria Talbott, Lon Chaney Jr, Tom Drake, Duncan Dean Parkin) – Classic Movie Review 2761

Director Bert I Gordon’s 1957 sci-fi monster movie stars Lon Chaney Jnr as boozy, cantankerous, wealthy old Martin ‘Marty’ Melville, who nervously accompanies eager Susan Winter (Gloria Talbott) on an expedition out to a remote area of […]

Jul, 31

Dark Passage ***** (1947, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Agnes Moorehead, Bruce Bennett, Tom D’Andrea, Houseley Stevenson, Clifton Young, Douglas Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 1344

Writer-director Delmer Daves’s 1947 Warner Bros vintage film noir mystery thriller Dark Passage marks the extremely satisfying third star pairing in the series of the four films made by husband and wife Humphrey Bogart and […]

Jun, 21

Mister John *** (2013, Aidan Gillen, Zoe Tay, Molly Rose Lawlor) – Movie Review

An elusive tale of a man in an identity crisis and an existential stupor. Any way you look at it, that’s a real hard one to sell. Aidan Gillen stars as Irishman Gerry Devine, who leaves his unfaithful […]

Sep, 29

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