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Blast of Silence **** (1961, Allen Baron, Molly McCarthy, Larry Tucker, Peter Clume) – Classic Movie Review 11,371

‘An Unforgettable Experience in Suspense!… As the Seconds Tick Off a Timetable for MURDER!’ The 1961 American black and white neo noir crime thriller Blast of Silence is written and directed by and stars Allen […]

Jul, 06

The Million Eyes of Sumuru (1967, Frankie Avalon, George Nader, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Klaus Kinski, Shirley Eaton) – Classic Movie Review 11,370

Director Lindsay Shonteff’s exceptionally awful and amusingly inept 1967 British spy film The Million Eyes of Sumuru stars Frankie Avalon, George Nader, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Klaus Kinski and Shirley Eaton, and is produced by Harry Alan […]

Jul, 06

Nazarín **** (1959, Francisco Rabal, Marga López, Rita Macedo) – Classic Movie Review 11,369

Director Luis Buñuel’s powerful and darkly surreal 1959 black and white Mexican satirical drama Nazarín stars Francisco Rabal as Catholic priest Father Nazario, who is despised when he wanders among the poor in the footsteps […]

Jul, 05

Necromancy ** (1972, Orson Welles, Pamela Franklin, Michael Ontkean, Lee Purcell, Harvey Jason) – Classic Movie Review 11,368

A biographer suggested that Orson Welles starred in Necromancy (1972) merely for the money. Do you think? Director Bert I Gordon’s 1972 horror movie Necromancy [NEC’RO•MAN’CY] stars Orson Welles in a daft, low-budget occult thriller, […]

Jul, 05

New Jack City *** (1991, Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Mario Van Peebles, Judd Nelson, Allen Payne, Chris Rock, Bill Cobbs) – Classic Movie Review 11,367

Director Mario Van Peebles’s 1991 American independent film New Jack City stars the young and charismatic Wesley Snipes, who gives an impressive tough guy role performance as the arrogant, smart Nino Brown, a stereotypical New […]

Jul, 04

Smoking *** (1993, Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi) – Classic Movie Review 11,366

Alain Resnais meets Alan Ayckbourn for the 1993 French comedy film Smoking. For the 1993 French comedy film Smoking / No Smoking, director Alain Resnais adapts Alan Ayckbourn’s play Intimate Exchanges (a series of eight […]

Jul, 04

No Smoking *** (1993, Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi) – Classic Movie Review 11,365

The 1993 French comedy film No Smoking is part two of Alain Resnais’s monumental adaptation of Alan Ayckbourn’s play cycle Intimate Exchanges (after Smoking). There are three stories but it focuses mainly on the relationship […]

Jul, 04

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