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The Cassandra Crossing ** (1976, Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster, Martin Sheen) – Classic Movie Review 7644

‘A Plague Infested Train Speeds Across Europe To Certain Death At Cassandra Crossing.’ Sounds fun, doesn’t it? Somehow producers Lee Grade and Carlo Ponti persuaded a large number of first-rate actors to jump aboard a […]

Oct, 07

Rotten to the Core ** (1965, Anton Rodgers, Charlotte Rampling, Eric Sykes, Kenneth Griffith, Dudley Sutton, James Beckett) – Classic Movie Review 7584

The 1965 British comedy Rotten to the Core (aka Rotten to the Corps) is amusing enough, with some good laughs, though it is essentially an ordinary, old-fashioned heist-thriller comedy from the Boulting Bothers, greatly helped […]

Sep, 17

A Ticket to Tomahawk *** (1950, Dan Dailey, Anne Baxter, Rory Calhoun, Walter Brennan, Marilyn Monroe) – Classic Movie Review 7528

Director Richard Sale’s sprightly, enjoyable and lighthearted 1950 Western A Ticket to Tomahawk stars Dan Dailey as Johnny Behind-the-Deuces, a travelling salesman caught up in a race between a stagecoach and a train across the […]

Sep, 02

20,000 Years in Sing Sing *** (1932, Spencer Tracy, Bette Davis, Arthur Byron, Louis Calhern) – Classic Movie Review 7440

Director Michael Curtiz’s excellent, tough-edged, vintage 1933 prison escape drama 20,000 Years in Sing Sing sees Spencer Tracy and Bette Davis crackle in their only ever screen pairing. Tracy was at Fox and then MGM and […]

Aug, 13

Time Bomb [Terror on a Train] *** (1953, Glenn Ford, Anne Vernon, Maurice Denham) – Classic Movie Review 7288

Director Ted Tetzlaff’s suspenseful and commendable 1953 MGM British black and white B-movie film noir crime thriller Time Bomb stars Glenn Ford and Anne Vernon as married couple Peter and Janine Lyncort, while John Horsley (Railway […]

Jul, 14

The Alligator People *** (1959, George Macready, Beverly Garland, Lon Chaney Jr, Richard Crane, Frieda Inescort, Bruce Bennett) – Classic Movie Review 7166

Director Roy Del Ruth’s fondly regarded 1959 horror movie stars George Macready as Dr Mark Sinclair, a Louisiana bayou doctor who gives as a treatment a reptile serum that is supposed to let his patients […]

Jun, 14

L’étoile du Nord **** (1982, Simone Signoret, Philippe Noiret, Fanny Cottençon) – Classic Movie Review 7054

Director Pierre Granier-Deferre’s 1982 French crime drama film adaptation of Georges Simenon’s thriller novel The Tenant (Le Locataire) is highly agreeable. Simone Signoret stars in L’étoile du Nord as Madame Louise Baron, a Thirties Belgian landlady looking […]

May, 14

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