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Falling Down ** (1993, Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey) – Classic Movie Review 10,652

Director Joel Schumacher’s 1993 Falling Down is an extremely worrying thriller using a sensitive issue for entertainment. But Michael Douglas reckons he gives his best-ever performance as the burnt-out All-American everyman, a middle-aged Los Angeles […]

Dec, 11

The Falls *** (1980, Colin Cantlie, Hilarie Thompson, Sheila Canfield, Adam Leys, Peter Westley, Aad Wirtz, Michael Murray) – Classic Movie Review 10,651

Writer-director Peter Greenaway’s critically praised first feature-length film The Falls (1980), funded by the British Film Institute (BFI), represents case histories of, or interviews with, 92 characters (played by the director’s friends) taken from an imaginary […]

Dec, 11

Five Days [Paid to Kill] ** (1954, Dane Clark, Cecile Chevreau, Paul Carpenter, Anthony Forwood, Thea Gregory) – Classic Movie Review 10,648

The 1954 British black and white film Five Days [Paid to Kill] is a moody, decently plotted crime thriller, with a goodish cast to make it work: Dane Clark, Cecile Chevreau, Paul Carpenter and Anthony […]

Dec, 11

A Feast at Midnight ** (1994, Freddie Findlay, Christopher Lee, Robert Hardy, Edward Fox) – Classic Movie Review 10,622

Director Justin Hardy’s 1994 British family comedy drama film A Feast at Midnight is a pleasant and well-meaning but rather weak, none too amusing children’s comedy about a lonely 10-year-old boy called Magnus (Freddie Findlay) […]

Dec, 03

The Devil Makes Three ** (1952, Gene Kelly, Pier Angeli, Richard Rober, Richard Egan) – Classic Movie Review 10,603

Director Andrew Marton’s 1952 MGM black and white thriller The Devil Makes Three stars Gene Kelly, who enjoys a straight acting role as American pilot Captain Jeff Eliot, a US serviceman who stumbles across a […]

Nov, 29

Night Editor *** (1946, William Gargan, Janis Carter, Jeff Donnell) – Classic Movie Review 10,602

Director Henry Levin’s nifty, well set-up 1946 Columbia Pictures B-movie black and white film noir thriller Night Editor is based on a popular radio programme about the graveyard-shift police beat reporters at fictional newspaper called […]

Nov, 29

Cry Terror! *** (1958, James Mason, Rod Steiger, Inger Stevens, Neville Brand, Angie Dickinson) – Classic Movie Review 10,600

A lively cast are up to their necks in the plot twists of writer-director Andrew Stone’s unnerving 1958 black and white suspense thriller Cry Terror!. Rod Steiger stars as terrorist Paul Hoplin, who plants a […]

Nov, 29

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