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The Night Caller [Peur sur la Ville] *** (1975, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Denner, Adalberto Maria Merli, Lea Massari, Rosy Varte) – Classic Movie Review 11,562

France’s top Seventies action star Jean-Paul Belmondo gives an engaging turn as Commissaire Jean Letellier, a cop on the trail of an infamous gangster, bank robbers and a phone-call serial killer of young women, in director […]

Sep, 08

Find the Lady * (1956, Donald Houston, Beverley Brooks, Mervyn Johns, Maurice Kaufmann, Edwin Richfield) – Classic Movie Review 9751

Director Charles Saunders’s 1956 tepid, short British B-movie comedy thriller Find the Lady is based on the story by Paul Erickson and Dermot Palmer about a gang of bank robbers (Mervyn Johns, Maurice Kaufmann, and […]

May, 11

Rooster Cogburn *** (1975, John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Jordan, Anthony Zerbe) – Classic Movie Review 6271

John Wayne re-creates his Oscar-winning one-eyed U.S. Marshal Rooster J Cogburn act from True Grit (1969) and makes like he is Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen (1951) romancing the one and only Hepburn as feisty spinster […]

Nov, 19

The Hard Word *** (2002, Guy Pearce, Rachel Griffiths, Robert Taylor, Joel Edgerton, Damien Richardson) – Classic Movie Review 4889

For some reason sporting a weird prosthetic nose, Guy Pearce leads this in-your-face but jovial, old-style caper thriller about three crook brothers, Dale, Shane and Mal Twentyman (Pearce, Joel Edgerton, Damien Richardson). The three fraternal […]

Jan, 14

Golden Years ** (2016, Bernard Hill, Virginia McKenna, Simon Callow, Philip Davis, Una Stubbs, Sue Johnston) – Movie Review

Bernard Hill (aged 71) and Virginia McKenna (85) do well as old married couple Arthur and Martha Goode, who take to robbing banks as a way out of the financial problems of old age. My […]

Apr, 28

The Long Riders **** (1980, Stacy Keach, James Keach, David Carradine, Keith Carradine, Robert Carradine, Dennis Quaid, Randy Quaid) – Classic Movie Review 3406

Director Walter Hill’s thrilling 1980 film version of the well-known, much told story of the Jesse James outlaw gang of bank robbers starts with the useful gimmick of four sets of actual brothers in the star parts […]

Feb, 24

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot **** (1974, Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, George Kennedy, Geoffrey Lewis, Catherine Bach, Gary Busey) – Classic Movie Review 3167

Young writer-director Michael Cimino’s exciting 1974 thriller finds Clint Eastwood on his best form as Thunderbolt, a hardened artilleryman bank robber who flees from jail, chums up with Lightfoot, an aimless, flippant, irresponsible, irreverent young punk (Jeff […]

Dec, 18

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