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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
- 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
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- The Velvet Touch **** (1948, Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Sydney Greenstreet, Claire Trevor, Leon Ames, Frank McHugh, Walter Kingsford) – Classic Movie Review 13,319
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Let’s Do It Again *** (1975, Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Calvin Lockhart, Jimmie Walker, John Amos, Ossie Davis) – Classic Movie Review 7906
The team from Uptown Saturday Night does it again in director Sidney Poitier’s 1975 Let’s Do It Again, a ragged but effervescent farce sequel to the 1974 hit, with Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby back in […]
A Piece of the Action ***(1977, Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, James Earl Jones) – Classic Movie Review 7904
Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby team up to play con artists Manny Durrell and Dave Anderson in the meandering and schmaltzy, though endearing 1977 comedy drama A Piece of the Action. The two high-class sneak […]
Studs Lonigan ** (1960, Christopher Knight, Frank Gorshin, Venetia Stevenson, Jack Nicholson, Dick Foran) – Classic Movie Review 7850
Christopher Knight stars in the 1960 drama Studs Lonigan as the title’s character Studs Lonigan, an Irish immigrant who adapts to life on the streets of Chicago and in the beds of various women in […]
Land of the Dead *** (2005, John Leguizamo, Asia Argento, Dennis Hopper, Simon Baker, Robert Joy) – Classic Movie Review 7705
Writer-director George A Romero’s lustily and impressively done Land of the Dead is the 2005 sequel to Night of the Living Dead (1968), Dawn of the Dead (1978) and Day of the Dead (1985). In […]
Fresh ** (1994, Sean Nelson, Giancarlo Esposito, Samuel L Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 6363
The eponymous 12-year-old African American kid Fresh (Sean Nelson) is late for a very important date – in his New York classroom – because he has been held up in his heroin-running work for the […]
Dragnet *** (1987, Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks, Christopher Plummer, Harry Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 6177
Dan Aykroyd stars in and co-writes director Tom Mankiewicz’s amiable 1987 nostalgic film parody of Jack Webb’s great Fifties TV cop show (1951–1959) and 1954 movie Dragnet. Aykroyd plays Sgt Joe Friday’s bumbling nephew, who […]
Disha [The Uprooted] *** (1990, Om Puri, Nana Patekar, Shabana Azmi, Raghuvir Yadav) – Classic Movie Review 4922
The once ubiquitous Om Puri, who died on 6 January 2017, aged 66, stars in writer-director Sai Paranjape’s involving, atmospheric and insightful 1990 Hindi drama about family life in a rural village setting, focusing on the […]