Recent Posts
- Night Monster *** (1942, Bela Lugosi, Ralph Morgan, Don Porter, Irene Hervey, Lionel Atwill, Nils Asther, Leif Erickson, Frank Reicher, Francis Pierlot) – Classic Movie Review 13,914
- The Ride Back *** (1957, Anthony Quinn, William Conrad, Lita Milan, Victor Millan) – Classic Movie Review 13,913
- Woman’s World *** (1954, Clifton Webb, Lauren Bacall, Van Heflin, June Allyson, Fred MacMurray, Arlene Dahl, Cornel Wilde) – Classic Movie Review 13,912
- A Woman’s Vengeance [The Giaconda Smile] **** (1948, Charles Boyer, Jessica Tandy, Ann Blyth, Cedric Hardwicke, Mildred Natwick, Rachel Kempson) – Classic Movie Review 13,911
- Terror from the Year 5000 [Cage of Doom] * (1958, Ward Costello, Joyce Holden, John Stratton, Salome Jens) – Classic Movie Review 13,910
- The Puppet Masters ** (1994, Donald Sutherland, Eric Thal, Keith David, Julie Warner, Andrew Robinson) – Classic Movie Review 13,909
- Fuze ** (2025, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Theo James, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Elham Ehsas, Sam Worthington) – Classic Movie Review 13,908
- Perro Perro *** (2025, Germán Flood, Juan Ramos) – Classic Movie Review 13,907
- A Taste of Excitement ** (1969, Eva Renzi, David Buck, Peter Vaughan, Francis Matthews, Sophie Hardy, Paul Hubschmid, Kay Walsh, Peter Bowles) – Classic Movie Review 13,906
- Lone Cowboy ** (1933, Jackie Cooper, Lila Lee, John Wray, Addison Richards) – Classic Movie Review 13,905
Reviews
Sleepers West ***½ (1941, Lloyd Nolan, Lynn Bari, Mary Beth Hughes, Louis Jean Heydt, Edward Brophy, Don Douglas) – Classic Movie Review 12,153
Lloyd Nolan stars again as Brett Halliday’s private detective Michael Shayne in the 1941 thriller Sleepers West, the second of seven 20th Century Fox support features made from 1940 to 1942. Director Eugene Ford’s complex, […]
Blue, White and Perfect *** (1941, Lloyd Nolan, Mary Beth Hughes, Helene Reynolds, George Reeves, Steve Geray, Curt Bois, Marie Blake, Mae Marsh, Frank Orth) – Classic Movie Review 12,152
The tough-nosed 1941 noir crime film Blue, White and Perfect stars Lloyd Nolan as private eye Michael Shayne, who chases secrets agents who are flogging diamonds to the Nazis. The 1941 noir film Blue, White […]
The Man Who Wouldn’t Die *** (1942, Lloyd Nolan, Marjorie Weaver, Henry Wilcoxon, Helene Reynolds, Richard Derr, Paul Harvey, Olin Howland, Billy Bevan) – Classic Movie Review 12,151
‘An Empty Grave… A Cunning, Gunning Ghost… And Michael Shayne!’ The eerie and atmospheric 1942 noir mystery thriller film The Man Who Wouldn’t Die again stars Lloyd Nolan, who is excellent in another extremely capable […]
Adam and Evelyne ** (1949, Stewart Granger, Jean Simmons) – Classic Movie Review 12,150
Producer-director Harold French’s 1949 British romantic drama Adam and Evelyne stars the then romantically involved and about-to-be married couple Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons in her first adult role after becoming a star in Great […]
The Bond *** (1918, Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Albert Austin, Sydney Chaplin) – Classic Movie Review 12,149
Charlie Chaplin’s 1918 short film The Bond is a piece of history. It illustrates various bonds like friendship and marriage, but especially The Liberty Bond to K O the Kaiser, which Chaplin does literally. Though […]
Pay Day *** (1922, Charlie Chaplin, Phyllis Allen, Mack Swain, Edna Purviance, Syd Chaplin) – Classic Movie Review 12,148
Pay Day (1922) is Charles Chaplin’s final two-reel short film, running just 21 minutes. Chaplin writes, directs and stars in the film, made by First National Pictures. Chaplin plays a bricklayer house construction labourer, a […]
A Life at Stake ***½ (1955, Angela Lansbury, Keith Landes, Douglass Dumbrille, Claudia Barrett, Jane Darwell, Gavin Gordon) – Classic Movie Review 12,147
‘A Cheat At Heart From Her Painted Toes To Her Plunging Neckline!’ Angela Lansbury! Really? The 1955 American black and white film noir A Life at Stake is directed by the actor Paul Guilfoyle, and […]