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Le Trou [The Hole] **** (1960, Philippe Leroy, Marc Michel, André Bervil, Jean Keraudy, Michel Constantin) – Classic Movie Review 8668

Director Jacques Becker’s gritty 1960 French crime thriller / drama Le Trou [The Hole] tells a grim but gripping and intelligent escape story, based on a novel by José Giovanni but taken from real life, […]

Jul, 02

Floods of Fear *** (1958, Howard Keel, Anne Heywood, Harry H Corbett, Cyril Cusack, John Crawford, Eddie Byrne, John Phillips) – Classic Movie Review 7953

Charles Crichton, best known for his comedies, directs this robust, tough-toned British-made, but American-set 1958 black and white action adventure thriller Floods of Fear. The story is about two convicts (Howard Keel, Cyril Cusack), a […]

Dec, 29

Breakout *** (1975, Charles Bronson, Robert Duvall, John Huston, Sheree North, Randy Quaid, Jill Ireland) – Classic Movie Review 7780

Director Tom Gries’s 1975 movie Breakout is a strongly cast, decent action thriller and a good star vehicle for Charles Bronson, who plays Nick Colton, a pilot paid to rescue innocent patsy Jay Wagner (Robert Duvall) […]

Nov, 12

Pardon Us *** (1931, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Wilfred Lucas, Walter Long, James Finlayson) – Classic Movie Review 7364

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy have fun sending up prison movies in ‘THEIR FIRST FULL LENGTH TALKING PICTURE’. Director James Parrott’s hour-long 1931 black and white comedy Pardon Us (aka Jailbirds) finds Stan Laurel and […]

Jul, 29

San Quentin **½ (1937, Pat O’Brien, Ann Sheridan, Humphrey Bogart) – Classic Movie Review 5070

Humphrey Bogart is in trouble again in prison – San Quentin – in director Lloyd Bacon’s moderate 1937 film noir-style jail movie, in which he plays hardened inmate ‘Red’ Kennedy, sentenced to jail for robbery. Meanwhile […]

Feb, 27

The Boys * (1998, David Wenham, Toni Collette) – Classic Movie Review 1491

Debut director Rowan Woods’s 1998 release is a very extreme, slow-moving and repulsive Australian film about a psychopathically violent crook released on parole after serving a sentence for assault. He comes home to a Sydney household […]

Jul, 29

Mean Machine ***½ (2001, Vinnie Jones, David Kelly, David Hemmings) – Classic Movie Review 968

Vinnie Jones puts the muscle into director Barry Skolnick’s feisty 2001 reworking of the old Burt Reynolds film The Mean Machine (aka The Longest Yard) about an epic footie match between prison warders and cons. Jones […]

Mar, 22

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