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Kansas City Confidential **** (1952, John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster) – Classic Movie Review 7556

Director Phil Karlson’s taut, tense, crisp, and expertly made little 1952 black and white film noir thriller Kansas City Confidential [The Secret Four] stars John Payne, Coleen Gray and Preston Foster, and is based on […]

Sep, 10

Loophole ***½ (1954, Barry Sullivan, Dorothy Malone, Charles McGraw, Don Haggerty, Mary Beth Hughes, Don Beddoe) – Classic Movie Review 4467

Director Harold D Schuster’s 1953 little gem of a thriller stars Barry Sullivan as Mike Donovan, a bank worker who has to find the real robber after he is falsely accused of stealing $50,000 from his […]

Oct, 08

The Life of Emil Zola **** (1937, Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard, Joseph Schildkraut, Gloria Holden, Donald Crisp, Vladimir Sokoloff, Louis Calhern) – Classic Movie Review 3131

Emil Zola: ‘I shall tell the truth. Because if I did not, my nights would be haunted by the spectre of an innocent man expiating under the most frightful torture a crime he never committed.’ […]

Dec, 05

The Wrong Man ***** (1956, Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle) – Classic Movie Review 387

Roman Catholic to its very soul, Alfred Hitchcock’s 1956 true-life near docudrama is a devastating portrait of a guiltless victim and his martyrdom. It’s the story of a tormented, Christ-like figure. This time, it’s not […]

Nov, 10

The Hunt – Film Review

Thomas Winerberg’s 2012 Danish masterwork The Hunt is a totally harrowing, devastatingly emotional and intellectual experience. Mads Mikkelsen gives an astonishing, fearless tour-de-force, deserving his Cannes Best Actor win as sweet and innocent junior teacher Lucas, […]

Aug, 29

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