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Les Misérables *** (1952, Robert Newton, Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, Edmund Gwenn, Sylvia Sidney, Cameron Mitchell, Elsa Lanchester, James Robertson Justice, Joseph Wiseman) – Classic Movie Review 3147

Robert Newton gives an entertaining, lip-smacking performance as the sneering, over-law-abiding cop Inspector Javert in this well-acted, thoroughly enjoyable if not especially distinguished screen version of the Victor Hugo tale. Michael Rennie perhaps is less […]

Dec, 12

Fury ***** (1936, Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot, Edward Ellism Walter Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 2190

Co-writer/director Fritz Lang’s outstanding 1936 American drama film Fury finds Spencer Tracy on his most blistering form in this forceful, continuingly relevant attack on small-town mob violence. Lang’s American début provided an instant movie classic. He had […]

Feb, 18

You Only Live Once ***** (1937, Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, William Gargan, Barton MacLane) – Classic Movie Review 2176

Fritz Lang’s splendid 1937 film noir crime melodrama thriller You Only Live Once is one of his best, most distinguished movies. It stars Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney and is set in Depression-hit America. Director […]

Feb, 14

Violent Saturday **** (1955, Richard Egan, Victor Mature, Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine) – Classic Movie Review 1700

Director Richard Fleischer’s exciting, high-impact, high-anxiety 1955 suspense thriller focuses on the fallout of a vicious bank heist on a small town community in Arizona. A gang of hoodlums (Stephen McNally, Lee Marvin, J Carrol Naish) decides […]

Sep, 21

Damien: Omen II ***½ (1978, William Holden, Lee Grant, Jonathan Scott-Taylor, Robert Foxworth, Lew Ayres, Sylvia Sidney, Lance Henriksen) – Classic Movie Review 559

Director Don Taylor’s 1978 sequel to the 1976 hit The Omen is set seven years later. Wealthy Chicago dweller Richard Thorn (William Holden) starts to suspects that his young nephew and foster son Damien (Jonathan […]

Dec, 21

Sabotage ***** (1936, Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, Desmond Tester) – Classic Movie Review 278

Alfred Hitchcock’s extremely tense and flavourful 1936 film version of Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent is one of his best British films of the 30s. Sabotage follows The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes in […]

Oct, 08

Mars Attacks! **** (1996, Jack Nicholson, Pierce Brosnan, Sarah Jessica Parker, Lukas Haas, Sylvia Sidney, Glenn Close, Natalie Portman, Rod Steiger, Martin Short, Tom Jones, Annette Bening, Danny DeVito, Michael J Fox, Jim Brown, Pam Grier, Lisa Marie) – Classic Movie Review 168

‘Nice planet. We’ll take it!’ A flying saucer buzzes round the Warner Brothers logo, the US President announces Martians have been spotted circling Earth, but the bug-eyed guys claim ‘We come in peace!’ Phew, that’s […]

Aug, 17

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