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I, the Jury *** (1982, Armand Assante, Barbara Carrera, Laurene Landon, Alan King, Geoffrey Lewis, Paul Sorvino) – Classic Movie Review 11,397

The 1982 neo-noir crime thriller remake I, the Jury stars Armand Assante as mean, moody, morose gumshoe Mike Hammer. Director Richard T Heffron’s effective and exciting 1982 American neo-noir crime thriller remake I, The Jury […]

Jul, 17

I, the Jury ** (1953, Biff Elliot, Preston Foster, Peggie Castle, Margaret Sheridan) – Classic Movie Review 11,396

The 1953 3D film noir I, the Jury is notable for being the first movie based on a Mike Hammer novel. Writer-director Harry Essex’s 1953 film noir crime film I, The Jury stars Biff Elliot […]

Jul, 16

Dillinger **** (1973, Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Michelle Phillips, Cloris Leachman, Harry Dean Stanton, Richard Dreyfuss, Steve Kanaly, Geoffrey Lewis, John P Ryan, John Martino, Roy Jenson) – Classic Movie Review 3241

Writer-director John Milius’s 1973 thriller for American International Pictures casts Warren Oates in his first starring role as America’s public enemy number one John Dillinger. Début director Milius’s gangster movie is tough, pulsating and uncompromising […]

Jan, 05

Dillinger **** (1945, Lawrence Tierney, Edmund Lowe, Anne Jeffreys, Elisha Cook Jr, Eduardo Ciannelli, Marc Lawrence) – Classic Movie Review 3234

Director Max Nosseck’s 1945 thriller is an excellent B-movie gangster film Dillinger, which uses imagination and skill to triumph over its low-budget cheapness and enjoys a claim to being humble poverty row Monogram Pictures’ best […]

Jan, 05

Trent’s Last Case ***½ (1952, Michael Wilding, Margaret Lockwood, Orson Welles, John McCallum) Classic Movie Review 1675

Producer/director Herbert Wilcox’s involving and diverting 1952 British movie version of E C Bentley’s classic 1913 detective novel Trent’s Last Case is made efficiently and briskly, but in basic fashion and without much particular style or […]

Sep, 14

Chicago ****½ (2002, Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Queen Latifah) – Classic Movie Review 416

Renée Zellweger (as Roxy Hart) and Catherine Zeta-Jones (as Velma Kelly) are sensational, singing and dancing like grand old troupers, as heartless molls on death row, in director Rob Marshall’s red-hot, six Oscar-winning movie of Fred […]

Nov, 17

The Funeral **** (1996, Christopher Walken, Chris Penn) – Classic Movie Review 259

‘God made  the world. I’m just makin’ do with what I got.’ – Ray Tempio. Abel Ferrara’s critically acclaimed 1996 Mob family crime drama, set in New York in the Depression era of the 1930s, is […]

Sep, 30

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