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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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Quick Millions *** (1931, Spencer Tracy, Marguerite Churchill, Sally Eilers) – Classic Movie Review 10,784
Director Rowland Brown’s 1931 crime thriller Quick Millions stars Spencer Tracy as a go-getting lorry driver, Bugs Raymond, who gets involved with mobsters and takes protection money, and hits it big, falling for high-society beauty […]
Great Balls of Fire! ** (1989, Dennis Quaid, Winona Ryder, Alec Baldwin, John Doe) – Classic Movie Review 9507
Goodness, gracious! It’s Dennis Quaid giving an amusing caricature of a performance as legendary Fifties rocker Jerry Lee Lewis, in the 1989 stylised comic-book biopic Great Balls of Fire!, which reunites Dennis Quaid with Jim […]
Désirée ** (1954, Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Merle Oberon, Michael Rennie, Cameron Mitchell, Elizabeth Sellars) – Classic Movie Review 7144
Director Henry Koster’s 1954 Désirée is an undesirable, wan, pointlessly fictionalised version of the Napoleon story, with a miscast Marlon Brando looking forlorn and unhappy as young Napoleon Bonaparte. There are not many sparks either from […]
I Mobster *** (1959, Steve Cochran, Lita Milan, Robert Strauss, Celia Lovsky, John Brinkley, John Mylong) – Classic Movie Review 6147
Director Roger Corman’s lively and lusty 1959 film noir crime drama movie I Mobster is your usual version of that usual, well-known yarn, used again in 1992 in Billy Bathgate and Mobsters, about a poor […]
Overnight ***½ (2003, Troy Duffy, Jeffrey Baxter, Chris Brinker) – Classic Movie Review 4673
Struggling 25-year-old musician and barman Troy Duffy did the difficult immediately: he wrote a script for a movie called The Boondock Saints and sold it to the ace independent film company Miramax. The deal was, […]
All the King’s Men **** (1949, Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge, Joanne Dru, John Derek) – Classic Movie Review 3045
Writer-director Robert Rossen’s 1949 drama stars Broderick Crawford, who won a Best Actor Oscar for his role as decent but ambitious Southern politician Willie Stark. But he loses his scruples climbing up the ladder to political success as […]
Gangster No 1 ** (2000, Malcolm McDowell, David Thewlis, Paul Bettany, Saffron Burrows, Kenneth Cranham, Jamie Foreman, Eddie Marsan) – Classic Movie Review 659
A ruthless middle-aged English hoodlum reflects on his life of crime, and how he rose from young hardman in small-time crime in Swinging 60’s London to being boss of the gang. This repellently bloodsoaked British gangster […]
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