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Penny and the Pownall Case ** (1948, Ralph Michael, Peggy Evans, Diana Dors, Christopher Lee) – Classic Movie Review 10,878
Christopher Lee calls Penny and the Pownall Case ‘a Z-feature, a truly grisly free-for-all’. Director Slim Hand’s engaging 1948 British second feature mystery film Penny and the Pownall Case, starring Ralph Michael, may be obscure but […]
The Double Man ** (1967, Yul Brynner, Britt Ekland, Clive Revill, Anton Diffring, Moira Lister, Lloyd Nolan) – Classic Movie Review 10,182
Director Franklin J Schaffner’s minor 1967 British spy thriller The Double Man stars Yul Brynner in two roles (high-ranking CIA widower Dan Slater and his lookalike enemy agent, Kalmar). A large part of the action […]
Mister 880 **** (1950, Burt Lancaster, Edmund Gwenn, Dorothy McGuire) – Classic Movie Review 9691
Burt Lancaster stars as recently appointed FBI agent Steve Buchanan who teams with attractive UN secretary–translator Ann Winslow (Dorothy McGuire) to investigate aged New Yorker William ‘Skipper’ Miller, aka fake-dollar-bill fraudster Mister 880 (Edmund Gwenn), […]
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A Southern Yankee [My Hero] *** (1948, Red Skelton, Brian Donlevy, Arlene Dahl) – Classic Movie Review 7890
Director Edward Sedgwick’s 1948 slapstick comedy A Southern Yankee [My Hero] stars Red Skelton as Aubrey Filmore, a silly St Louis bellhop who becomes a silly Yankee spy after being mistaken for The Grey Spider […]
Guarding Tess *** (1994, Nicolas Cage, Shirley MacLaine, Austin Pendleton, Edward Albert, James Rebhorn, Richard Griffiths) – Classic Movie Review 7253
The amusing double act of Nicolas Cage and Shirley MacLaine give a big lift to co-writer/ director Hugh Wilson’s bumpily constructed 1994 Guarding Tess, which tells the tale of a hapless US secret service agent, […]
The Helicopter Spies ** (1968, Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Carol Lynley, Julie London, Lola Albright, John Carradine, Bradford Dillman) – Classic Movie Review 6,924
Robert Vaughn and David McCallum star as U.N.C.L.E. agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin, who are whisked across the world in their daring quest to gain control of a deadly weapon being used in a […]
First Kid *** (1996, Sinbad, Brock Pierce, James Naughton, Lisa Eichhorn, Zachery Ty Bryan, Erin Williby, Blake Boyd) – Classic Movie Review 4548
Director David M Evans’s laid-back, entertaining 1996 Disney comedy stars Sinbad, who is amusing as ex-boxer Sam Simms, the agent in charge of Luke Davenport (Brock Pierce), the difficult, troublesome, 13-year-old son of the US […]