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- 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
- Cousins **** (1989, Ted Danson, Isabella Rossellini, Sean Young, William Petersen, Lloyd Bridges) – Classic Movie Review 13,958
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Soft Top Hard Shoulder *** (1992, Peter Capaldi, Elaine Collins, Jeremy Northam, Richard Wilson, Frances Barber, Simon Callow, Catherine Russell, Phyllis Logan) *** Classic Movie Review 10,568
Director Stefan Schwartz’s 1992 comedy Soft Top Hard Shoulder is good middle-brow fun, in the Local Hero style, made with an eagle eye for laughs and arresting images. Peter Capaldi has done himself an enormous […]
Sombrero *** (1953, Ricardo Montalban, Pier Angeli, Vittorio Gassman, Yvonne De Carlo, Cyd Charisse, Rick Jason, Nina Foch, Kurt Kasznar) – Classic Movie Review 10,567
Romance and drama down Mexico way are to the fore in three tales of frustrated love in director Norman Foster’s pleasingly peculiar 1953 Technicolor romantic musical Sombrero, based on Josefina Niggli’s book A Mexican Village. […]
Soft Beds, Hard Battles * (1974, Peter Sellers, Lila Kedrova, Curd Jürgens, Béatrice Romand) – Classic Movie Review 10,566
The 1974 British comedy Soft Beds, Hard Battles [Undercovers Hero] is set during the Nazi occupation of France. The Boulting Brothers’ brew of ancient jokes and antique routines results in uneasy entertainment, but there is […]
Sodom and Gomorrah ** (1962, Stewart Granger, Pier Angeli, Stanley Baker, Anouk Aimée, Rossana Podestà) – Classic Movie Review 10,565
Ah yes, ‘The Twin Citadels of Sin!’ ‘The cities that mocked the very name of God… The vengeance that tore the Earth asunder!’ Director Robert Aldrich’s costly 1962 Italian, French, US co-production Sodom and Gomorrah [Sodoma […]
J W Coop **** (1971, Cliff Robertson, Geraldine Page, Cristina Ferrare) – Classic Movie Review 10,564
The 1971 Western drama film J W Coop is a triumph for co-writer-producer-director Cliff Robertson, who also stars as the rodeo cowboy J W Coop who rides back to confront his kinfolks after a decade behind bars, […]
The Honkers *** (1972, James Coburn, Lois Nettleton, Slim Pickens) Classic Movie Review 10,563
Director Steve Ihnat’s 1972 film The Honkers is an action comedy drama with a western setting, and stars James Coburn, who is compellingly amiable in a profile of a middle-ageing, philandering rodeo rider, Lew Lathrop. […]
Terminus **** (1961, documentary, director John Schlesinger) – Classic Movie Review 10,562
John Schlesinger’s imaginative, classic 1961 documentary short Terminus, now poignantly dated, about a day in the life of London’s Waterloo station, was made for British Transport Films. It won the 1962 BAFTA Film Award for […]