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- 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
- Johnny Apollo ** (1940, Tyrone Power, Dorothy Lamour, Edward Arnold, Lloyd Nolan) – Classic Movie Review 13,960
- Nocturne **** (1946, George Raft, Lynn Bari, Virginia Huston, Joseph Pevney, Myrna Dell, Edward Ashley, Walter Sande, Mabel Paige) – Classic Movie Review 13,959
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Hotel Imperial *** (1927, Pola Negri, James Hall, George Siegmann) – Classic Movie Review 10,958
‘Pola Negri loving, hating, fighting, running the gamut of every conceivable human emotion. Never has she given such full play to her genius.’ Director Mauritz Stiller’s 1927 American silent film Hotel Imperial is an impressive […]
The Man from Colorado *** (1948, Glenn Ford, William Holden, Ellen Drew) – Classic Movie Review 10,957
‘They Turned the West Into a Jungle of Male Killing Male for a Woman!’ Good work from Glenn Ford, relishing his rare bad guy role, is upstaged by an even better William Holden as his […]
The Man Behind the Mask [Behind the Mask] ** (1936, Hugh Williams, Jane Baxter, Maurice Schwartz, Donald Calthrop, Ronald Ward ) – Classic Movie Review 10,956
The 1936 British black and white quota quickie mystery thriller The Man Behind the Mask is zesty, fast-paced vintage entertainment with pleasingly over-the-top performances and energetic handling, significant as an early work of the great […]
Hoffa ** (1992, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Armand Assante, Kevin Anderson, J T Walsh, Frank Whaley, Robert Prosky) – Classic Movie Review 10,953
Director Danny DeVito’s 1992 film Hoffa stars Jack Nicholson, who gives a committed and powerful but one-note performance as Jimmy Hoffa, the notorious president of the all-powerful American teamsters’ union. DeVito’s old-fashioned biopic is as […]
Holiday Affair *** (1949, Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey) – Classic Movie Review 10,952
Director Don Hartman’s 1949 RKO black and white film Holiday Affair, set during the Christmas season, stars Janet Leigh as World War Two war widow Connie Ennis, who is courted by affable department store sales […]
Hotel Imperial ** (1939, Isa Miranda, Ray Milland, Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, J Carrol Naish, Curt Bois) – Classic Movie Review 10,942
‘TRAPPED BY LOVE IN THE MAD MAELSTROM OF WAR! ‘ Director Robert Florey’s 1939 drama Hotel Imperial stars Italian actress Isa Miranda as Anna Warschawska, a dancer from the Balkans who masquerades as a chambermaid […]
Against the Ropes ** (2004, Meg Ryan, Omar Epps, Charles S Dutton) – Classic Movie Review 10,941
Director Charles S Dutton’s 2004 drama Against the Ropes stars Meg Ryan, who battles to get her career off the ropes as a real-life go-getting promoter, Jackie Kallen, a Jewish woman from Detroit who storms […]