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- 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
- Cousin Cousine *** (1975, Marie-Christine Barrault, Victor Lanoux, Marie-France Pisier, Guy Marchand) – Classic Movie Review 13,957
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Mister Johnson *** (1990, Pierce Brosnan, Edward Woodward, Maynard Eziashi) – Classic Movie Review 10,014
In director Bruce Beresford’s affecting, warm-hearted, carefully made 1990 personal drama of a clash of cultures Mister Johnson, Pierce Brosnan gives a fine turn as Harry Rudbeck, the friend of Mister Johnson (Maynard Eziashi), a […]
For the Love of Ada ** (1972, Irene Handl, Wilfred Pickles, Barbara Mitchell, Jack Smethurst, Arthur English) – Classic Movie Review 10,015
Director Ronnie Baxter’s 1972 senior citizens comedy For the Love of Ada is a warm-hearted but fairly feeble TV spin-off film, which tries to open out an already fairly feeble TV series that entirely motors […]
Mister Frost *** (1990, Jeff Goldblum, Kathy Baker, Alan Bates) – Classic Movie Review 10,013
‘Because I’m Chaos, it is my destiny to destroy.’ – Mister Frost. Alan Bates stars as British cop Felix Detweiler, who continues to pursue suave mass murderer Mister Frost (Jeff Goldblum) when he is transferred […]
Mister Moses * (1965, Robert Mitchum, Carroll Baker, Ian Bannen, Alexander Knox, Raymond St Jacques) – Classic Movie Review 10,012
‘Joe Moses is his name… stealing Africa is his game!’ Director Ronald Neame’s badly dated 1965 adventure film Mister Moses is feeble if well-meaning Boys Own adventure stuff, with a quasi-Bible theme, reworking the story […]
The Strange One *** (1957, Ben Gazzara, George Peppard, Peter Mark Richman, Pat Hingle) – Classic Movie Review 10,011
Director Jack Garfein’s 1957 black and white drama The Strange One is a powerful, up-front hothouse US Southern military academy saga, in which Ben Gazzara stars as cadet leader Jocko De Paris, who exercises a […]
Tom Sawyer *** (1930, Jackie Coogan, Junior Durkin, Mitzi Green, Jackie Searle) – Classic Movie Review 10,010
Director John Cromwell’s 1930 early sound black and white comedy-drama film Tom Sawyer is the first sound version of the 1876 Mark Twain classic novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It is pleasing though very […]
Huckleberry Finn ** (1931, Jackie Coogan, Junior Durkin, Mitzi Green, Jackie Searl) – Classic Movie Review 10,008
Director Norman Taurog’s 1931 family comedy Huckleberry Finn [The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn] is Paramount’s pleasing, now faded second version of the Mark Twain classic (after a 1919 silent with Lewis Sargent as Huckleberry Finn), […]