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- Hand in Hand *** (1960, Loretta Parry, Philip Needs, Sybil Thorndike, John Gregson, Finlay Currie, Derek Sydney, Miriam Karlin, Kathleen Byron) – Classic Movie Review 13,327
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- A Hitch in Time *** (1978, Patrick Troughton, Michael McVey, Pheona McLellan, Jeff Rawle, Sorcha Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 13,325
- Man at the Carlton Tower *** (1961, Maxine Audley, Lee Montague, Alfred Burke, Allan Cuthbertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,324
- Beyond the Door [Chi Sei?] [The Devil Within Her] * (1974, Juliet Mills, Richard Johnson, Gabriele Lavia, Elizabeth Turner, David Colin Jr) – Classic Movie Review 13,323
- Beyond the Door II [Schock] *** (1979, Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, David Colin Jr, Ivan Rassimov) – Classic Movie Review 13,322
- Blood Red ** (1989, Eric Roberts, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Hopper, Burt Young) – Classic Movie Review 13,321
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Hell’s House [Juvenile Court] ** (1932, Bette Davis, Pat O’Brien, Junior Durkin) – Classic Movie Review 11,472
Director Howard Higgin’s 1932 American Pre-Code drama Hell’s House [Juvenile Court] stars young Bette Davis (aged 24) and Pat O’Brien (aged 33), who are worth a look in this decent little low-budget programmer about a […]
Deep Waters ** (1948, Dana Andrews, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero, Dean Stockwell, Anne Revere) – Classic Movie Review 9984
Director Henry King’s minor but appealing 1948 drama Deep Waters is based on the novel Spoonhandle by Ruth Moore, and stars Dean Stockwell, Jean Peters, Dana Andrews and Cesar Romero. It was Oscar nominated for […]
Freedom Is Paradise [S.E.R. – Svoboda eto rai] **** (1989, Volodya Kozyrev, Sergei Bodrov Jr, Aleksandr Bureyev, Svetlana Gaytan) – Classic Movie Review 9162
Volodya Kozyrev stars in Freedom Is Paradise as Sasha, a 13-year-old Russian boy who longs for freedom from his state-run special school for difficult children, where is is taken after his mother died. One day […]
Good Time Girl *** (1948, Jean Kent, Dennis Price, Flora Robson, Griffith Jones, Herbert Lom, Bonar Colleano, Diana Dors) – Classic Movie Review 6978
Director David MacDonald’s 1948 British noir thriller Good Time Girl stars Jean Kent as a slum slut called Gwen Rawlings, who escapes from her young offenders’ prison, joins some crooks, kills a copper in a […]
Bed of Roses *** (1933, Constance Bennett, Joel McCrea, John Halliday, Pert Kelton) – Classic Movie Review 6725
The scandalous 1933 pre-Production Code Depression-era comedy drama film Bed of Roses is a sharp and amusing story of ‘the girl who took a shortcut down the primrose path’. Constance Bennett and Joel McCrea star. […]
Across the Tracks *** (1990, Ricky Schroder, Brad Pitt, Carrie Snodgress, David Anthony Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 601
The young Brad Pitt and Rick Schroder star in writer-director Sandy Tung’s 1990 drama about a kid trying to adjust to his old life when he returns from reform school. It’s an agreeable youth-oriented coming-of-age […]
Angels with Dirty Faces ***** (1938, James Cagney, Pat O’Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, Billy Halop, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall) – Classic Movie Review 295
Oscar-nominated James Cagney sizzles in one of his most archetypal performances as William ‘Rocky’ Sullivan, a poor New York Lower East Side kid who grows up to be a gangster admired by a gang of […]