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The Big Knife **** (1955, Jack Palance, Rod Steiger, Shelley Winters, Ida Lupino, Wendell Corey, Jean Hagen, Everett Sloan, Ilka Chase) – Classic Movie Review 3405

Producer-director Robert Aldrich gets his big knife out to stab Tinseltown in the back. He fancies – and really relishes – the idea of biting the hand that feeds him in this sly and superlative […]

Feb, 24

The Killer Is Loose ***½ (1956, Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey) – Classic Movie Review 3,368

‘The Story of a Cop Who Used His Wife as Bait for a Killer!’ Budd Boetticher’s underrated 1956 hide-and-seek film noir crime thriller The Killer Is Loose stars Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming and Wendell Corey […]

Feb, 16

The Astro-Zombies ½ (1968, Wendell Corey, John Carradine, Tom Pace, Joan Patrick, Rafael Campos, Tura Satana) – Classic Movie Review 3047

Incredibly dreadful 1968 Sci-Fi horror yarn, with Wendell Corey (as the investigating FBI agent Holman) and John Carradine (as the usual crazed doctor Dr DeMarco, who is making the Astro-Zombies) unfairly embarrassed. DeMarco is fired […]

Nov, 09

The Search ***** (1948, Montgomery Clift, Ivan Jandl, Aline MacMahon, Wendell Corey, Jarmila Novotna) – Classic Movie Review 2428

Director Fred Zinnemann’s remarkable 1948 drama stars Montgomery Clift as Ralph ‘Steve’ Stevenson, a kind-hearted American army engineer who looks after a lost nine-year-old Czech boy called Karel (Ivan Jandl) in post-war Berlin. The boy was […]

Apr, 25

The File on Thelma Jordon ***** (1949, Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Paul Kelly, Joan Tetzel, Stanley Ridges, Richard Rober) – Classic Movie Review 2,255

Robert Siodmak’s marvellous, ultra-tense 1949 film noir thriller The File on Thelma Jordon stars Barbara Stanwyck as the femme fatale in love with a jewel thief (Richard Rober). Wendell Corey co-stars as hard-drinking, unhappily married […]

Mar, 11

Desert Fury **** (1947, John Hodiak, Lizabeth Scott, Burt Lancaster, Mary Astor, Wendell Corey) – Classic Movie Review 2168

The lurid, hard-to-resist 1947 film noir crime drama Desert Fury stars Lizabeth Scott as gorgeous young husky blonde Paula Haller, daughter of powerful Nevada saloon and casino owner Fritzi (Mary Astor). Director Lewis Allen’s lurid, […]

Feb, 11

Loving You *** (1957, Elvis Presley, Lizabeth Scott, Wendell Corey, Dolores Hart) – Classic Movie Review 2161

Co-writer/director Hal Kanter’s 1957 vehicle for Elvis Presley finds him starring as young hillbilly singer Deke Rivers, who’s changed his name from Jimmy Tompkins. He becomes a teenage sensation after he is hired to boost […]

Feb, 09

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