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- The Senator [O Senador] **½ (2024, Sergio Harger, Johnny Alcántara, Juliana Zancanaro, João Cury) – Classic Movie Review 13,212
- Rogue’s Yarn * (1957, Nicole Maurey, Derek Bond) – Classic Movie Review 13,211
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- Carny *** (1980, Gary Busey, Jodie Foster, Robbie Robertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,209
- Carnival Story ** (1954, Anne Baxter, Steve Cochran, Lyle Bettger, George Nader, Jay C Flippen) – Classic Movie Review 13,208
- The Weaker Sex * (1948, Ursula Jeans, Cecil Parker, Joan Hopkins, Derek Bond, Lana Morris, Thora Hird) – Classic Movie Review 13,207
- The Great Smokey Roadblock [The Last of the Cowboys] *** (1977, Henry Fonda, Eileen Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 13,206
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Posts Tagged "San Francisco"
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Charlie Chan’s Secret ** (1936, Warner Oland, Rosina Lawrence, Charles Quigley) – Classic Movie Review 9038
Director Gordon Wiles’s modest 1935 mystery Charlie Chan’s Secret is set in a creepy old mansion in San Francisco, where Chan (Warner Oland) endures séances, apparitions, a hurled knife, and Herbert Mundin’s insufferable comic butler […]
Barbary Coast **** (1935, Miriam Hopkins, Edward G Robinson, Joel McCrea, Frank Craven, Brian Donlevy, Donald Meek, Harry Carey Sr) – Classic Movie Review 8898
‘Gold. Out of California in 1849 came the cry that lured the adventurous from the four corners of the Earth. Over the Rockies in covered wagons they came, and around the Horn in square-rigged ships.’ […]
Freebie and the Bean *** (1974, Alan Arkin, James Caan, Loretta Swit, Valerie Harper) – Classic Movie Review 7025
The rumbustious 1974 prototype buddy cop movie Freebie and the Bean stars James Caan and Alan Arkin as bickering San Francisco cops. It is noisy, funny and full of action, but it was a troubled […]
The Presidio *** (1988, Sean Connery, Mark Harmon, Meg Ryan, Jack Warden) – Classic Movie Review 6795
Director Peter Hyams’s 1988 The Presidio is routine action stuff, though the movie is sparked up by Sean Connery’s gruffly winning performance and some lively chases. But just what happened to Larry Ferguson screenplay? It […]
The Cheap Detective ** (1978, Peter Falk, Ann-Margret, John Houseman, Louise Fletcher, Nicol Williamson, Fernando Lamas, Madeline Kahn, Dom DeLuise) – Classic Movie Review 6793
The actors seem to be having a good time in the 1978 comedy The Cheap Detective sending up Humphrey Bogart’s films in a 1940 San Francisco-set parody with Peter Falk as a Bogart-style character called […]
Flame of Barbary Coast ** (1945, John Wayne, Ann Dvorak, Joseph Schildkraut) – Classic Movie Review 6745
Producer-director Joseph Kane’s sluggish low-action 1945 Republic studios Western is based on a story by Prescott Chaplin and stars John Wayne, Ann Dvorak and Joseph Schildkraut. It was nominated for two Oscars: Best Music, Scoring of a […]
Mr Ricco *** (1975, Dean Martin, Eugene Roche, Thalmus Rasulala, Denise Nicholas, Cindy Williams, Geraldine Brooks, Frank Puglia) – Classic Movie Review 6720
Paul Bogart’s 1975 MGM crime thriller Mr Ricco sees the ever likeable Dean Martin in his final star role as Mr Joe Ricco, a criminal attorney in San Francisco up to his neck in cases. […]