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- 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
- Black Memory *** (1947, Michael Atkinson, Michael Medwin, Myra O’Connell, Jane Arden, Frank Hawkins) – Classic Movie Review 13,320
- The Velvet Touch **** (1948, Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Sydney Greenstreet, Claire Trevor, Leon Ames, Frank McHugh, Walter Kingsford) – Classic Movie Review 13,319
- Delayed Action ** (1954, Robert Ayres, June Thorburn, Alan Wheatley) – Classic Movie Review 13,318
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The Moon in the Gutter [La Lune dans le Caniveau] ** (1983, Gérard Depardieu, Nastassja Kinski, Victoria Abril) – Classic Movie Review 11,333
‘We’re born in the gutter… where the stars gleam in the water.’ Director Jean-Jacques Beineix’s 1983 French revenge-obssessed drama The Moon in the Gutter [La Lune dans le Caniveau] is based on a novel by […]
Mister Cory *** (1957, Tony Curtis, Martha Hyer, Charles Bickford, Kathryn Grant) – Classic Movie Review 8083
Director Blake Edwards’s 1957 film noir-style crime comedy drama Mister Cory stars Tony Curtis twinkles pleasantly in this fairly droll and engaging movie about the street-smart young Mister Cory (Curtis). Mister Cory is a charming […]
Dead End **** (1937, Joel McCrea, Sylvia Sidney, Humphrey Bogart, Wendy Barrie, Claire Trevor, Allen Jenkins, Marjorie Main, Billy Halop) – Classic Movie Review 6914
Billy Halop was cast as Tommy Gordon in the 1935 Broadway production of Sidney Kingsley’s play Dead End and got the call to go to Hollywood with the rest of the young actors playing the Dead End […]
Knock on Any Door *** (1949, Humphrey Bogart, John Derek, George Macready, Allene Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 6765
Nicholas Ray’s intelligent 1949 courtroom melodrama Knock on Any Door stars Humphrey Bogart as a lawyer defending a Chicago slum kid (John Derek) from a cop killer murder rap by trying to appeal to the […]
The Joyless Street [Die Freudlose Gasse] ****½ (1925, Asta Nielsen, Greta Garbo, Werner Krauss, Ágnes Eszterházy) – Classic Movie Review 5325
Director Georg Wilhelm Pabst’s long famous, now legendary 1925 German silent movie is based on the novel by Hugo Bettauer about the sad lives of near-starving, inflation-ruined people on a Viennese street, forced to resort […]
Crime in the Streets **** (1956, John Cassavetes, Sal Mineo, James Whitmore, Mark Rydell) – Classic Movie Review 5251
John Cassavetes (aged 26 but playing 18) stars as Frankie Dane, a teenage crime boss who comes back from the edge of committing a vengeance murder of a neighbour because of the intervention of social […]
Fame Is the Spur *** (1947, Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer, Margaret Johnston, Godfrey Tearle, Griffith Jones, Guy Middleton, Jean Kent, Marie Lohr, Garry Marsh, David Horne, Alan Wheatley) – Classic Movie Review 4431
The Boulting Brothers’ 1947 British film adaptation of Howard Spring’s book Fame Is the Spur, chronicling the rise and disillusionment of a British Labour Party politician, Hamer Radshaw (Michael Redgrave), is a solid if not […]