Recent Posts
- The Replacement Killers *** (1998, Chow Yun-fat, Mira Sorvino, Michael Rooker, Kenneth Tsang, Jürgen Prochnow, Til Schweiger, Danny Trejo, Clifton Collins Jr, Carlos Gomez) – Classic Movie Review 13,970
- Coyote Ugly *** (2000, Piper Perabo, John Goodman, Adam Garcia, Maria Bello, Izabella Miko, Melanie Lynskey, Bridget Moynahan, Tyra Banks, LeAnn Rimes, Bud Cort) – Classic Movie Review 13,969
- Shadow of Fear *** (1964, Paul Maxwell, Clare Owen, Anita West, Alan Tilvern, John Arnatt, Eric Pohlmann, Reginald Marsh, John Sutton, Anthony Wager, Colin Tapley) – Classic Movie Review 13,968
- Race Street **** (1948, George Raft, Marilyn Maxwell, William Bendix, Frank Faylen, Harry Morgan, Gale Robbins) – Classic Movie Review 13,967
- Swamp Fire ** (1946, Johnny Weissmuller, Buster Crabbe, Virginia Grey, Carol Thurston) – Classic Movie Review 13,966
- Dangerous Partners *** (1945, James Craig, Signe Hasso, Edmund Gwenn, Audrey Totter, Warner Anderson, Felix Bressart, Mabel Paige, John Warburton, Henry O’Neill, Grant Withers) – Classic Movie Review 13,965
- A Dangerous Profession **** (1949, George Raft, Ella Raines, Pat O’Brien, Jim Backus, Bill Williams, Roland Winters) – Classic Movie Review 13,964
- Bad Girl **** (1931, Sally Eilers, James Dunn, Minna Gombell, William Pawley, Frank Darien) – Classic Movie Review 13,963
- Pick-Up *** (1933, Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, William Harrigan) – Classic Movie Review 13,962
- Mr Ace *** (1946, George Raft, Sylvia Sidney, Stanley Ridges, Sara Haden, Jerome Cowan, Sid Silvers) – Classic Movie Review 13,961
Reviews
Drifters **** (1929, director John Grierson) – Classic Movie Review 12,104
‘The herring fishing has changed. It was once an idyll of brown sails and village harbours – its story now is an epic of steam and steel.’ Writer-producer-director John Grierson’s 1929 silent film Drifters for […]
The Drifter *** (1988, Kim Delaney, Timothy Bottoms, Miles O’Keeffe, Al Shannon, Anna Garduno, Loren Haynes, Larry Brand) – Classic Movie Review 12,103
The 1988 Roger Corman-produced film The Drifter is a tense, eerie, credible thriller about unattached fashion designer Julia Robbins (Kim Delaney) who gives a hitchhiker named Trey (Miles O’Keeffe) a lift, and lives to regret […]
Driftwood * (1997, James Spader, Anne Brochet) – Classic Movie Review 12,102
James Spader drifts out of luck with the arty-farty 1997 Misery clone thriller film Driftwood. Director Ronan O’Leary’s 1997 thriller Driftwood is an arty-farty Misery clone, with an amnesiac man (James Spader) washed up on […]
Driftwood **** (1947, Natalie Wood, Ruth Warrick, Walter Brennan, Dean Jagger, Charlotte Greenwood, Jerome Cowan, H B Warner, Margaret Hamilton) – Classic Movie Review 12,101
The nine-year-old Natalie Wood gives a super show of winning acting in this thoroughly enjoyable homespun drama. Producer-director Allan Dwan’s prestige 1947 drama Driftwood stars Ruth Warrick, Walter Brennan, Dean Jagger, Charlotte Greenwood, and Natalie […]
Thunderbolt *** (1929, George Bancroft, Fay Wray, Richard Arlen, Tully Marshall, Eugenie Besserer) – Classic Movie Review 12,100
Director Josef Von Sternberg’s 1929 film Thunderbolt [At the Gates of Death] is a tough, glum gangster picture, with the cops rounding up mobster Thunderbolt Jim Lang (George Bancroft, who was Oscar nominated for Best Actor). […]
Underworld ***** (1927, Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent, George Bancroft) – Classic Movie Review 12,099
Director Josef von Sternberg’s influential 1927 American silent crime thriller film Underworld [Paying the Penalty] is an impressively fast and furious tale of mobsters during Prohibition. It is one of the earliest gangster movies, and […]
The Dressmaker **** (1988, Joan Plowright, Billie Whitelaw, Jane Horrocks, Tim Ransom, Pete Postlethwaite) – Classic Movie Review 12,098
Stand by for acting fireworks! Director Jim O’Brien’s 1988 British drama film The Dressmaker is set in England during the Second World War, and stars Joan Plowright, Billie Whitelaw, Jane Horrocks, Tim Ransom, and Pete […]