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Homicidal ***½ (1961, Joan Marshall, Glenn Corbett, Patricia Breslin, Eugenie Leontovich, Alan Bunce, Richard Rust) – Classic Movie Review 4700

Producer-director William Castle’s mysterious and eerie 1961 Psycho-style shocker is patently absurd but compelling none the less. It stars Joan Marshall as a homicidal nurse called Emily, who shares a mansion with a paralysed Swedish […]

Nov, 25 · in Reviews

Roustabout **½ (1964, Elvis Presley, Barbara Stanwyck, Sue Ann Langdon, Joan Freeman, Leif Erickson, Raquel Welch, Teri Garr) – Classic Movie Review 4697

Director John Rich’s 1964 musical is a colourful but routine vehicle for Elvis Presley, though it is notable as one the few times that he had the support of a major star – Barbara Stanwyck. […]

Nov, 25 · in Reviews

The Night Walker *** (1964, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Taylor, Lloyd Bochner, Rochelle Hudson, Judith Meredith, Hayden Rorke, Marjorie Bennett, Jess Barker) – Classic Movie Review 4698

Barbara Stanwyck stars here in 1964 in her last movie as Irene Trent, a wealthy woman who has recurring nightmares, featuring both her apparently dead jealous, blind husband (Hayden Rorke) and a mysterious stranger (Lloyd Bochner), […]

Nov, 25

Caged **** (1950, Eleanor Parker, Agnes Moorehead, Ellen Corby, Hope Emerson, Jane Darwell, Betty Garde, Jan Sterling, Lee Patrick) – Classic Movie Review 4699

Director John Cromwell’s exciting 1950 film noir crime drama Caged stars Oscar nominated Eleanor Parker, who is outstanding as Marie Allen, a naïve 19-year-old teenager jailed for her innocent share in her husband’s gas-station heist […]

Nov, 25

Crook’s Tour *** (1941, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Greta Gynt) – Classic Movie Review 4,696

Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne return for the third time as cricket-mad Charters and Caldicott in the lively and funny 1941 black and white British spy comedy-drama film Crook’s Tour. The endearing Basil Radford and […]

Nov, 24

Millions Like Us **** (1943, Gordon Jackson, Patricia Roc, Eric Portman, Anne Crawford, Irene Handl, Moore Marriott, Joy Shelton, Brenda Bruce, Megs Jenkins, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne) – Classic Movie Review 4695

Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat’s rousing and persuasive 1943 British wartime propaganda drama Millions Like Us centres on the marriage of shy war-worker Celia (Patricia Roc) to young airman Fred (Gordon Jackson). Also featured is […]

Nov, 24

Johnny Frenchman ** (1945, Françoise Rosay, Tom Walls, Patricia Roc, Paul Dupuis, Ralph Michael, Frederick Piper, Arthur Hambling, Richard George, Bill Blewitt) – Classic Movie Review 4694

Director Charles Frend’s well-meaning 1945 wartime drama is an unusually weak Ealing Studios production – one of their rare disappointments – about fishing rivalry between Cornish and Breton fishermen in the English or French Channel, […]

Nov, 24

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