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- Hand in Hand *** (1960, Loretta Parry, Philip Needs, Sybil Thorndike, John Gregson, Finlay Currie, Derek Sydney, Miriam Karlin, Kathleen Byron) – Classic Movie Review 13,327
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- 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
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The Mark of the Whistler **½ (1944, Richard Dix, Janis Carter, Porter Hall) – Classic Movie Review 13,242
Richard Dix stars in Columbia Pictures’ second Whistler series film, the 1944 mystery film noir The Mark of the Whistler, as a drifter who claims the money in a dormant bank account by impersonating a […]
Mister Jerico *** (1970, Patrick Macnee, Connie Stevens, Herbert Lom) – Classic Movie Review 10,016
Director Sidney Hayers’s 1970 adventure thriller Mister Jericho stars Patrick Macnee, who is on good form as conman Mister Dudley Jericho, who sets out to Malta to grab a fabled diamond from ultra-rich corrupt millionaire Victor […]
Ladies Should Listen ** (1934, Cary Grant, Frances Drake, Edward Everett Horton, Nydia Westman, George Barbier) – Classic Movie Review 7339
Director Frank Tuttle’s 1934 archetypal Thirties romantic comedy Ladies Should Listen stars Cary Grant as a wide-eyed French business executive called Julian de Lussac under assault from his romantically inclined switchboard operator telephonist Anna Mirelle […]
Big Town After Dark *** (1947, Phillip Reed, Hillary Brooke, Richard Travis, Ann Gillis, Vince Barnett, Joe Sawyer, Robert Kent) – Classic Movie Review 6343
‘POLICE SLAY GAMBLING CZAR…AS EDITOR ESCAPES DEATH! ‘ Director William C Thomas’s sharp and intriguing 1947 film noir is written by Whitman Chambers and stars Phillip Reed, Hillary Brooke, Richard Travis and Ann Gillis. There are plenty of thrills […]
The Gypsy and the Gentleman *** (1958, Melina Mercouri, Keith Michell, Flora Robson, Patrick McGoohan, June Laverick, Helen Haye, Lyndon Brook) – Classic Movie Review 5848
Director Joseph Losey’s 1958 movie The Gypsy and the Gentleman is a lusty, opulent-looking, lip-smacking British throwback to The Wicked Lady school of romantic period melodramas, though in this just pre-British New Wave era this […]
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels **** (1988, Steve Martin, Michael Caine, Glenne Headly, Anton Rodgers, Barbara Harris) – Classic Movie Review 5214
Director Frank Oz’s delicious 1988 comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels stars a perfect team in Steve Martin, Michael Caine and Glenne Headly. Caine plays a suave Englishman named Lawrence Jamieson who preys on wealthy widows by posing […]
The Bad Sister *** (1931, Sidney Fox, Conrad Nagel, Humphrey Bogart, Zasu Pitts, Bette Davis, Charles Winninger. Slim Summerville) – Classic Movie Review 2693
Director Hobart Henley’s 1931 drama is fondly recalled as the moment Bette Davis makes her movie début, aged 23, as the good, shy younger sister Laura Madison in this second remake of Booth Tarkington’s 1913 […]