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The Mad Game *** (1933, Spencer Tracy, Claire Trevor, Ralph Morgan, J Carrol Naish, John Miljan, Howard Lally, Matt McHugh, Kathleen Burke) – Classic Movie Review 12,779

Spencer Tracy is excellent as a bootlegging gangster, in the busy 1933 mob movie The Mad Game. Director Irving Cummings’s 1933 American Pre-Code crime drama film The Mad Game stars Spencer Tracy and Claire Trevor, […]

Jan, 04

Union Station **** (1950, William Holden, Barry Fitzgerald, Nancy Olson, Lyle Bettger, Jan Sterling, Allene Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 12,079

Director Rudolph Maté’s suspenseful and entertaining 1950 black and white Paramount Pictures crime drama film noir thriller Union Station is adapted from Thomas Walsh’s Edgar-winning novel Nightmare in Manhattan, and stars William Holden, Barry Fitzgerald, […]

Apr, 21

Kidnapped ** (1948, Roddy McDowall, Sue England, Dan O’Herlihy, Roland Winters, Jeff Corey, Houseley Stevenson, Erskine Sanford) – Classic Movie Review 10,699

Director William Beaudine’s 1948 Lindsley Parsons Picture Corporation/ Monogram Pictures poverty row double feature film adventure Kidnapped is another antique American version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s tale, this time with Roddy McDowall as the boy […]

Dec, 23

Midnight in St Petersberg *** (1996, Michael Caine, Jason Connery, Michael Sarrazin, Michelle Burke, Michael Gambon) – Classic Movie Review 9839

Michael Caine returns for the fifth and final time as one-time British secret agent Harry Palmer, in the 1996 made-for-TV thriller Midnight in St Petersburg, the sequel to Bullet to Beijing, released the year before, […]

May, 29

The Awful Dr Orloff [Gritos en la noche] *** (1962, Conrado San Martín, Diana Lorys, Howard Vernon, Ricardo Valle) – Classic Movie Review 9710

Writer-director Jesús Franco’s 1962 Spanish horror movie The Awful Dr Orloff [Gritos en la noche] stars Howard Vernon as Dr Orloff. He is a mad doctor who kidnaps beautiful women to operate on them and […]

May, 03

The Vanishing **** (1988, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Johanna ter Steege) – Classic Movie Review 8991

Director George Sluizer’s terrifying 1988 Dutch mystery horror psycho thriller The Vanishing [Spoorloos], based on Tim Krabbé’s novel The Golden Egg with a screenplay by the author, is highly disturbing, even uniquely disturbing, but with […]

Oct, 17

The Collector **** (1965, Terence Stamp, Samantha Eggar, Mona Washbourne) – Classic Movie Review 8681

Director William Wyler’s 1965 The Collector stars Terence Stamp as a dangerously withdrawn, deranged bank clerk and butterfly collector called Freddie Clegg, who decides to collect human specimens, and abducts a young woman art student […]

Jul, 07

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