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- Man Detained *** (1961, Bernard Archard, Elvi Hale, Paul Stassino, Michael Coles) – Classic Movie Review 13,327
- 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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High Rolling * (1977, Joseph Bottoms, Grigor Taylor, Wendy Hughes, John Clayton, Judy Davis) – Classic Movie Review 4997
Director Igor Auzins’s 1977 Australian buddy comedy drama stars Joseph Bottoms and Grigor Taylor as Tex and Alby, two fun-loving carnival men who set off on the Aussie road to Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast in […]
The Rawhide Years **½ (1955, Tony Curtis, Colleen Miller, Arthur Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 4868
Director Rudolph Maté’s 1955 movie The Rawhide Years retells one of the usual, standard, regulation B-movie Western plots – a dishonest riverboat gambler sets out to clear his name of the murder of the town’s […]
The Burglar ***½ (1957, Dan Duryea, Jayne Mansfield, Martha Vickers, Peter Capell, Mickey Shaughnessy, Phoebe Mackay) – Classic Movie Review 4,677
In her first star role, Jayne Mansfield plays Gladden, sidekick of crook Nat Harbin (Dan Duryea), who sets out to steal the emerald necklace of a Philadelphia spiritualist. The moody 1957 film noir crime thriller […]
Short Circuit 2 ** (1988, Fisher Stevens, Michael McKean, Cynthia Gibb, Jack Weston) – Classic Movie Review 4581
Director Kenneth Johnson’s pleasantly silly 1988 sci-fi fantasy comedy sequel is aimed at an even younger audience than the 1986 teen movie original. Alas, original stars Ally Sheedy and Steve Guttenberg and director John Badham […]
City on Fire [Lung foo fong wan] **** (1987, Chow Yun-Fat, Danny Lee, Yueh Sun) – Classic Movie Review 4286
Allegedly the inspiration for Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs (1992), director Ringo Lam’s top-notch 1987 Hong Kong violent revenge cops ‘n’ robbers thriller City on Fire [Lung foo fong wan] has no trouble standing up on its […]
W W and the Dixie Dancekings *** (1975, Burt Reynolds, Art Carney, Conny Van Dyke, Jerry Reed, Ned Beatty) – Classic Movie Review 4165
Director John G Avildsen’s pleasantly laid-back 1975 comedy stars Burt Reynolds as sweet-talking, happy-go-lucky US Southern Fifties trickster W W Bright. W W is an old rogue of a crook who makes his living robbing […]
Blue Collar **** (1978, Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto, Ed Begley Jnr, Cliff De Young) – Classic Movie Review 4150
Co-writer/director Paul Schrader shoots from the hip in his directing début – a hard-hitting piece about a trio of car plant labourers in a Detroit auto factory – Zeke (Richard Pryor), Jerry (Harvey Keitel) and Smokey […]