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- 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
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Poil de Carotte **** (1932, Harry Baur, Robert Lynen, Christiane Dor, Catherine Fonteney, Louis Gauthier) Classic Movie Review 11,353
The 1930s French child star Robert Lynen was discovered for films by Julien Duvivier and during World War Two became a French Resistance hero. Excellent black and white photography, brilliant performances and an outstanding script […]
Stormy Monday **** (1988, Melanie Griffith, Tommy Lee Jones, Sting) – Classic Movie Review 11,346
Stormy Monday (1988): ‘The Most Dangerous Choices Are Made With The Heart’. Writer-director Mike Figgis’s 1989 British neo noir movie Stormy Monday is an exciting and moodily atmospheric crime thriller set in a rain-swept, neon-lit […]
Storm Boy **** (1976, Greg Rowe, Peter Cummins, David Gulpilil) – Classic Movie Review 11,345
Storm Boy (1976): ‘His free spirit roams with his pet pelican, Mr Percival, and his secret Aboriginal friend, Fingerbone Bill.’ Director Henri Safran’s Australian 1976 children’s film Storm Boy tells the sweet and simple story […]
The Great Man Votes **** (1939, John Barrymore, Peter Holden, Virginia Weidler) – Classic Movie Review 11,327
Director Garson Kanin’s 1938 comedy The Great Man Votes stars John Barrymore as widower Gregory Vance, by day a hard-drinking former Harvard professor and at dark a night watchman, battling to keep and support his children, […]
Bitter Springs ** (1950, Tommy Trinder, Chips Rafferty, Gordon Jackson, Jean Blue) – Classic Movie Review 11,325
Ealing’s ‘adventure story of the Australian bush’. Director Ralph Smart’s 1950 British/ Australian black and white adventure film Bitter Springs stars Tommy Trinder, Chips Rafferty, Gordon Jackson and Jean Blue. Ealing Studios’ sturdy Kangaroo Western […]
Bitter Sweet *** (1940, Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, George Sanders, Felix Bressart, Ian Hunter) – Classic Movie Review 11,324
Noël Coward was bitter: ‘This vulgar orgy of tenth-rate endeavour.’ Director W S Van Dyke II’s 1940 musical film Bitter Sweet stars Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, who are sweet in this welcome remake of […]
Call Me Mister **½ (1951, Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Danny Thomas, Dale Robertson, Richard Boone, Jeffrey Hunter) – Classic Movie Review 11,292
Director Lloyd Bacon’s 1951 20th Century Fox Technicolor musical Call Me Mister stars Betty Grable and Dan Dailey in their fourth and final pairing after Mother Wore Tights in 1947, When My Baby Smiles at Me […]