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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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Avalanche * (1978, Rock Hudson, Mia Farrow, Robert Forster) – Classic Movie Review 9748
Director Corey Allen’s 1978 action drama Avalanche is a minor, just passable disaster movie, unexpectedly from producer Roger Corman, made and distributed by New World Pictures, with a six million-ton avalanche spelling doom for trippers at […]
In the Doghouse ** (1961, Leslie Phillips, Peggy Cummins, Hattie Jacques, James Booth, Dick Bentley) – Classic Movie Review 9736
Director Darcy Conyers’s 1961 comedy In the Doghouse has us in mild stitches with James Herriot-type adventures, this time adapted from the novel It’s a Vet’s Life by Alex Duncan, in a screenplay by the […]
Rose of Washington Square **** (1939, Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Al Jolson, William Frawley, Joyce Compton) – Classic Movie Review 9726
Director Gregory Ratoff’s 1939 black and white musical Rose of Washington Square stars Alice Faye, who grabs one of her best chances as Rose Sargent, a 1920s New York singer trying to perform a difficult […]
Moonlighting **** (1982, Jeremy Irons, Eugene Lipinski, Jirí Stanislav) – Classic Movie Review 9725
Writer-director Jerzy Skolimowski’s 1982 British drama Moonlighting is a fascinating allegorical piece about deceit and theft, with a sterling performance by Jeremy Irons as contractor Nowak, the leader of a small band of Polish workers […]
Should Married Men Go Home? *** (1928, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, Kay Deslys, Edna Marion, Viola Richard) – Classic Movie Review 9724
‘Question: What is the surest way to keep a husband home? Answer: Break both his legs.’ Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy leave their wives to go golfing, chased off by Mrs Hardy (Kay Deslys) after […]
The Shout ** (1978, Alan Bates, Susannah York, John Hurt, Robert Stephens, Tim Curry) – Classic Movie Review 9723
Director Jerzy Skolimowski’s 1978 The Shout is a thin, arty, anecdotal horror drama film from Robert Graves’s short story about a man at a mental hospital who says that the Aborigines taught him how to […]
Excess Baggage *** (1997, Alicia Silverstone, Benicio Del Toro, Christopher Walken, Harry Connick Jr, Jack Thompson, Nicholas Turturro) – Classic Movie Review 9717
A chaotic cross-country escapade is the setting for director Marco Brambilla’s Excess Baggage (1997), an offbeat, fast-paced, outrageously quirky mix of caper comedy, action thriller and romance. Alicia Silverstone stars as petulant teenager Emily, who […]