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- Gigi *** (1949, Danièle Delorme, Gaby Morlay, Yvonne de Bray, Franck Villard, Jean Tissier) Classic Movie Review – 13,971
- 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
Reviews
Pickpocket ***** (1959, Martin LaSalle, Marika Green, Jean Pélégri) – Classic Movie Review 10,923
Writer-director Robert Bresson’s spare, stark and enigmatic 1959 French film Pickpocket is rightly considered to be one of the great film-maker’s greatest films. The young Uruguayan non-professional actor Martin LaSalle stars as the Pickpocket, with […]
Une femme douce [A Gentle Woman] [A Gentle Creature] **** (1969, Dominique Sanda, Guy Frangin, Jeanne Lobre) – Classic Movie Review 10,922
Director Robert Bresson’s austere and contemplative 1969 French tragic film Une femme douce [A Gentle Woman] is adapted from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1876 short story A Gentle Creature. The film is Bresson’s first in colour, and set […]
The Trial of Joan of Arc [Procès de Jeanne d’Arc] **** (1962, Florence Delay, Jean-Claude Fourneau, Roger Honorat) – Classic Movie Review 10,921
Joan of Arc is played by the 21-year-old future academician Florence Delay in writer-director Robert Bresson’s low-key, minimalist, now acclaimed 1962 French historical film The Trial of Joan of Arc [Procès de Jeanne d’Arc]. It […]
Quantrill’s Raiders *½ (1958, Steve Cochran, Diane Brewster, Leo Gordon, Gale Robbins) – Classic Movie Review 10,920
‘Quantrill’s Raiders rode like hellions, hid like ghosts, killed like wolves!’ Director Edward Bernds’s 1958 Western film Quantrill’s Raiders stars Leo Gordon as William Clark Quantrill, a Civil War outlaw up to no good whose […]
Quantez ** (1957, Fred MacMurray, Dorothy Malone, James Barton) – Classic Movie Review 10,919
‘THEY RODE TO QUANTEZ TOWN… half-way to freedom but all the way to Hell!’ Universal International Pictures’ 1957 film Quantez is a stodgy but passable Western about criminals on the lam ducking into a Mexican […]
The Quare Fellow ***½ (1962, Patrick McGoohan, Sylvia Syms, Walter Macken) – Classic Movie Review 10,918
Underrated actor Patrick McGoohan grabs his opportunity as Thomas Crimmin, a new young Dublin prison warder questioning his views on capital punishment at the imminent hanging of a condemned man, in writer-director Arthur Dreifuss’s 1963 […]
Quatre nuits d’un rêveur [Four Nights of a Dreamer] **** (1971, Isabelle Weingarten, Guillaume des Forêts, Jean-Maurice Monnoyer) – Classic Movie Review 10,917
Marthe: ‘What’s the matter?’ Jacques: ‘I love you. That’s the matter.’ Writer-director Robert Bresson’s beautiful, miniaturist 1971 French Eastmancolor drama film Quatre nuits d’un rêveur [Four Nights of a Dreamer] is loosely based on the […]