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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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Beat Girl *** (1960, David Farrar, Noëlle Adam, Christopher Lee, Gillian Hills, Adam Faith, Shirley Anne Field) – Classic Movie Review 10,416
Director Edmond T Gréville’s 1960 exploitation drama Beat Girl [Wild for Kicks] is a rare British teen picture from this late-50s, early 60s period, about a rebellious teenage girl (Gillian Hills) who resents her attractive, […]
The Buttercup Chain * (1970, Hywel Bennett, Leigh Taylor-Young, Jane Asher, Sven-Bertil Taube, Clive Revill, Roy Dotrice, Michael Elphick) – Classic Movie Review 10,414
Director Robert Ellis Miller’s 1970 romantic drama The Buttercup Chain is a daft, dated tale of kissing cousins and a love chain foursome – unstable France (Hywel Bennett), his depressive close cousin Margaret (Jane Asher), […]
Adventures of a Private Eye (1977, Christopher Neil, Suzy Kendall, Harry H Corbett, Diana Dors, Fred Emney, Liz Fraser, Irene Handl, Ian Lavender, Julian Orchard, Jon Pertwee, Adrienne Posta, Anna Quayle, William Rushton) – Classic Movie Review 10,412
Director Stanley A Long’s 1977 crime comedy Adventures of a Private Eye is the second of three turgid 70s Brit comedies, in the Confessions of… style, with Christopher Neil as private eye’s assistant Bob West, […]
Adventures of a Plumber’s Mate (1978, Christopher Neil, Arthur Mullard, Anna Quayle, Stephen Lewis, Nina West, William Rushton, Christopher Biggins) – Classic Movie Review 10,411
‘He’s always on call for this sort of job!’ Director Stanley A Long’s 1978 Adventures of a Plumber’s Mate is the third of three turgid Seventies British sex comedies, in the Confessions of… style, with […]
Adventures in Babysitting [A Night on the Town] ** (1987, Elisabeth Shue, Vincent D’Onofrio, Maia Brewton, Keith Coogan) – Classic Movie Review 10,410
Elisabeth Shue takes her first steps in Babysitting… Director Chris Columbus’s popular 1987 American teen comedy Adventures in Babysitting [A Night on the Town] stars an attractive but anonymous-seeming young Elisabeth Shue, giving an engaging […]
Mystery of Edwin Drood *** (1935, Claude Rains, Douglass Montgomery, Heather Angel, David Manners, E E Clive, Valerie Hobson, Francis L Sullivan) – Classic Movie Review 10,409
Director Stuart Walker’s 1935 Universal studios black and white film Mystery of Edwin Drood is a pleasing, atmospheric, satisfying Victorian England period chiller, successfully based on Charles Dickens’s uncompleted 1870 novel, with Claude Rains enjoying a […]
The Mystery of Edwin Drood * (1993, Robert Powell, Nanette Newman, Gemma Craven, Jonathan Phillips) – Classic Movie Review 10,408
Writer-director Timothy Forder’s 1993 British film The Mystery of Edwin Drood stars Robert Powell, who is ideally cast but strangely subdued – exactly the wrong mode for this Grand Guignol mystery thriller – as Jasper […]