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The First Great Train Robbery [The Great Train Robbery] *** (1978, Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down) – Classic Movie Review 9,502

All aboard the London to Folkestone express for Michael Crichton’s 1979 Victorian crime caper, with Sean Connery as the cracksman William Pierce and Donald Sutherland as the safe-cracker Agar. ‘Steal from a moving train? Whoever […]

Mar, 13

Seven Keys to Baldpate ** (1935, Gene Raymond, Margaret Callahan, Eric Blore) – Classic Movie Review 9211

Directors William Hamilton and Edward Killy’s 1935 mystery thriller Seven Keys to Baldpate is the fifth of nine versions of this famous Earl Derr Biggers tale of a mystery writer, William Magee (played by Gene […]

Jan, 01

Nightmare **** (1956, Edward G Robinson, Kevin McCarthy, Connie Russell, Virginia Christine) – Classic Movie Review 8394

Kevin McCarthy stars in producers William H Pine and William C Thomas’s 1956 little black and white film noir gem Nightmare as Stan Grayson, a jazz musician in New Orleans who wakes from a dream […]

Apr, 24

Killers Three **½ (1968, Robert Walker Jr, Dick Clark, Diane Varsi) – Classic Movie Review 5375

Director Bruce Kessler’s intense and involving 1968 western crime drama stars Robert Walker Jr and Dick Clark, who play ex-con Johnny Warder and Roger, backwoodsmen from North Carolina, who rob a bootlegger’s safe with Johnny’s […]

May, 01

The Italian Job *** (2003, Mark Wahlberg, Edward Norton, Charlize Theron, Donald Sutherland, Seth Green, Jason Staham, Mos Def) – Classic Movie Review 5356

Mark Wahlberg takes over the old Michael Caine role as master thief Charlie Croker in director F Gary Gray’s fast-paced and enjoyable enough, if uninspired 2003 total revamp of the classic Sixties crime caper The […]

Apr, 28

Pépé le Moko ***** (1937, Jean Gabin, Mireille Balin, Gabriel Gabrio, Saturnin Fabre, Lucas Gridoux, Gilbert Gil, Line Noro) – Classic Movie Review 4298

In one of his most famous parts, Jean Gabin lights up the screen as Paris gangster Pépé le Moko, who hides out from the law in the Casbah in Algiers but gets arrested when leaving […]

Sep, 04

Time Lock **** (1957, Robert Beatty, Lee Patterson, Betty McDowall, Vincent Winter) – Classic Movie Review 3775

Director Gerald Thomas’s neat little 1957 British black and white B-movie thriller film Time Lock is particularly tense and very satisfying, a first-rate exercise in suspense. Vincent Winter plays a six-year-old boy who is accidentally […]

May, 26

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