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- Candidate for Murder ** (1962, Michael Gough, Erika Remberg, Hans von Borsody, John Justin) – Classic Movie Review 13,329
- Man Detained *** (1961, Bernard Archard, Elvi Hale, Paul Stassino, Michael Coles) – Classic Movie Review 13,328
- 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
- Attempt to Kill ** (1961, Tony Wright, Derek Farr, Richard Pearson, Freda Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 13,326
- 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
- The Fourth Square *** (1961, Conrad Phillips, Natasha Parry, Delphi Lawrence, Miriam Karlin, Jacqueline Jones, Anthony Newlands, Basil Dignam, Harold Kasket) – Classic Movie Review 13,316
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Rancho Notorious **** (1952, Marlene Dietrich, Arthur Kennedy, Mel Ferrer) – Classic Movie Review 2598
Director Fritz Lang’s splendidly baroque and brooding 1952 Western tale of frontier revenge is lit up by a mesmerising, breathtakingly camp star turn from a smouldering Marlene Dietrich (still looking stunning at 50). She plays Altar […]
Gun Crazy ***** (1949, John Dall, Peggy Cummins, Berry Kroeger) – Classic Movie Review 2566
‘We go together, Laurie. I don’t know why. Maybe like guns and ammunition go together.’ Director Joseph H Lewis’s 1949 film noir favourite stars John Dall as gun-loving Barton ‘Bart’ Tare, a World War Two […]
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford ****½ (2007, Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard, Sam Rockwell) – Classic Movie Review 2400
Casey Affleck gives a superbly snivelling performance as the 20-year-old rat-like coward Robert Ford, who has idolised the Missouri outlaw gang leader Jesse James since childhood. Director Andrew Dominik‘s 2007 movie takes its place as one […]
The Killers **** (1964, Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes, Clu Gulager, Ronald Reagan, Claude Akins, Norman Fell) – Classic Movie Review 2394
Director Don Siegel’s complex and satisfying 1964 American neo noir crime film The Killers is the second Hollywood adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s 1927 short story, following the hit 1946 version The Killers. Siegel’s film was thought so tough, […]
Where the Money Is **** (2000, Paul Newman, Linda Fiorentino, Dermot Mulroney) – Classic Movie Review 2018
Director Marek Kanievska’s 2000 caper thriller finds good work for Paul Newman, who is on the money as Henry Mannin, an old master criminal and legendary bank robber who manoeuvres himself out of jail and […]
Carry On Cabby *** (1963, Sidney James, Hattie Jacques, Kenneth Connor, Liz Fraser, Charles Hawtrey, Jim Dale, Esma Cannon) – Classic Movie Review 1907
Director Gerald Thomas’s 1963 comedy Carry On Cabby was planned as a non-Carry On film called Call Me a Cab, which in fact is neatly the film’s last line spoken by Sidney James as Charlie Hawkins, […]
Two-Way Stretch ****½ (1960, Peter Sellers, David Lodge, Bernard Cribbins, Liz Fraser, Lionel Jeffries, Wilfrid Hyde White, Maurice Denham, Beryl Reid, Irene Handl) – Classic Movie Review 1,843
The 1960 perfect robbery comedy film Two-Way Stretch is a Peter Sellers classic packed full of quirky vintage fun, realised by a brilliant ensemble of lovable British comic actors. Director Robert Day’s 1960 British perfect […]