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- Night Monster *** (1942, Bela Lugosi, Ralph Morgan, Don Porter, Irene Hervey, Lionel Atwill, Nils Asther, Leif Erickson, Frank Reicher, Francis Pierlot) – Classic Movie Review 13,914
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- Woman’s World *** (1954, Clifton Webb, Lauren Bacall, Van Heflin, June Allyson, Fred MacMurray, Arlene Dahl, Cornel Wilde) – Classic Movie Review 13,912
- A Woman’s Vengeance [The Giaconda Smile] **** (1948, Charles Boyer, Jessica Tandy, Ann Blyth, Cedric Hardwicke, Mildred Natwick, Rachel Kempson) – Classic Movie Review 13,911
- Terror from the Year 5000 [Cage of Doom] * (1958, Ward Costello, Joyce Holden, John Stratton, Salome Jens) – Classic Movie Review 13,910
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An Innocent Man ** (1989, Tom Selleck, F. Murray Abraham, Laila Robins) – Classic Movie Review 9092
Director Peter Yates’s 1989 action crime thriller An Innocent Man stars Tom Selleck as the innocent man Jimmie Rainwood, framed for drugs by two crooked cops, who finds himself in jail, where the going gets even tougher, […]
Orders Are Orders ** (1954, Peter Sellers, Sidney James, Tony Hancock, Brian Reece, Margot Grahame, Raymond Huntley, June Thorburn) – Classic Movie Review 9087
Director David Paltenghi’s 1954 comedy Orders Are Orders is an engagingly cast (and grammatically correct) though iffily handled retread of Walter Forde’s vintage Orders Is Orders (1933), with a British army base driven to distraction […]
Order of Death [Cop Killer] [l’assassino dei poliziotti] *** (1983, Harvey Keitel, John Lydon, Nicole Garcia, Leonard Mann, Sylvia Sidney) – Classic Movie Review 9086
Director Roberto Faenza’s fascinating 1983 Italian crime thriller Order of Death [Cop Killer] [l’assassino dei poliziotti] [Corrupt] is a tautly made and intriguingly written thriller based on Hugh Fleetwood’s 1977 psychological novel The Order of […]
The Shanghai Cobra ** (1945, Sidney Toler, Benson Fong, Mantan Moreland, Joan Barclay) – Classic Movie Review 9058
Director Phil Karlson’s 1945 low-budget Monogram Studios series thriller The Shanghai Cobra is an acceptable but slow paced and unatmospheric Charlie Chan entry. Sidney Toler again stars as Charlie Chan, who this time investigates mysterious […]
Murder Over New York ** (1940, Sidney Toler, Marjorie Weaver, Robert Lowery, Ricardo Cortez, Donald MacBride, Melville Cooper, Joan Valerie, Kane Richmond, Victor Sen Young, John Sutton) – Classic Movie Review 9044
Director Harry Lachman’s 1940 comedy crime mystery thriller Murder Over New York again stars Sidney Toler as Earl Derr Biggers‘s immortal character Charlie Chan, who takes over the current case of Inspector Vance (Donald […]
Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum *** (1940, Sidney Toler, Victor Sen Yung, C Henry Gordon, Marc Lawrence, Joan Valerie) – Classic Movie Review 9043
Director Lynn Shores’s 1940 comedy crime mystery thriller Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum is an eerie series entry, set at the eponymous New York Wax Museum presided over by the usual mad scientist. There […]
Charlie Chan at the Olympics *** (1937, Warner Oland, Katherine DeMille, Pauline Moore) – Classic Movie Review 9037
All the team are on top form in director H Bruce Humberstone’s droll 1937 episode Charlie Chan at the Olympics, set in pre-World War Two Berlin and including newsreel shots of the 1936 Olympic Games, […]