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The Mysterious Mr Wong ** (1934, Bela Lugosi, Wallace Ford, Arline Judge) – Classic Movie Review 11,991

Director William Nigh’s 1934 tongue-in-cheek black and white Monogram Pictures’ horror mystery movie The Mysterious Mr Wong stars Bela Lugosi, Wallace Ford, and Arline Judge. A wildly miscast Bela Lugosi, who was Hungarian, plays a Chinatown underworld criminal […]

Mar, 08

Stormy Weather **** (1935, Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn, Yvonne Arnaud, Robertson Hare) – Classic Movie Review 11,348

‘Piquant situations, intriguing scenes, sinister plots and delicious humour make STORMY WEATHER (1935) an Entertainment Delight.’ Director Tom Walls’s 1935 British black and white farcical comedy Stormy Weather is based on an original screenplay by […]

Jun, 27

Drôle de Drame [Bizarrre, Bizarre] ***** (1937, Louis Jouvet, Françoise Rosay, Michel Simon, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jean-Louis Barrault) – Classic Movie Review 8515

Director Marcel Carné’s 1937 French pre-war classic Drôle de Drame [Bizarrre, Bizarre] is a marvellously funny and brilliantly inventive black comedy, taken at a breathlessly fast slapstick lick. It is graced with stupendous performances by […]

May, 29

Year of the Dragon **** (1985, Mickey Rourke, John Lone, Ariane) – Classic Movie Review 3965

Director Michael Cimino’s ferocious 1985 thriller Year of the Dragon is complex and exciting. It boasts a convincingly dangerous star performance from Mickey Rourke as Stanley White, the police detective on the edge who is […]

Jul, 03

The Dead Pool ** (1988, Clint Eastwood, Patricia Clarkson, Liam Neeson) – Classic Movie Review 3813

Clint Eastwood said: ‘It’s fun, once in a while, to have a character you can go back to. It’s like revisiting an old friend you haven’t seen for a long time. You figure I’ll go […]

Jun, 06

Big Trouble in Little China **** (1986, Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun) – Classic Movie Review 2553

Director John Carpenter’s 1986 cult classic Big Trouble in Little China stars Kurt Russell in one of his iconic roles as Jack Burton, a trucker who gets sucked into a ‘centuries-old mystical battle’ in San Francisco’s […]

Jun, 03

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