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Scum **** (1979, Ray Winstone, Mick Ford, Julian Firth, Phil Daniels) – Classic Movie Review 7784

Writer Roy Minton’s scalding 1977 TV play Scum about life in a boys’ prison for juvenile offenders was made by the BBC but then banned by them, so its director Alan Clarke made this controversial 1979 […]

Nov, 13 · in Reviews

Boys in Brown *** (1949, Jack Warner, Richard Attenborough, Dirk Bogarde, Jimmy Hanley, Barbara Murray, Michael Medwin, Alfie Bass, Thora Hird, Patrick Holt) – Classic Movie Review 7783

Writer-director Montgomery Tully’s 1949 British drama Boys in Brown is a sincere though none too realistic British Borstal reform-school melodrama, with gem-shop raider Jackie Knowles (Richard Attenborough), Bill Foster (Jimmy Hanley), Alf ‘Sparrow’ Thompson (Michael […]

Nov, 13 · in Reviews

Jigsaw **** (1962, Jack Warner, Ronald Lewis, Yolande Donlan, Michael Goodliffe, John le Mesurier, Moira Redmond) – Classic Movie Review 7782

Writer-producer-director Val Guest’s 1962 British black and white noir-style crime film Jigsaw is a first-class old-fashioned whodunit with Jack Warner taking a busman’s holiday from his TV role as PC George Dixon in Dixon of Dock Green […]

Nov, 13

Hannie Caulder *** (1971, Raquel Welch, Robert Culp, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Elam, Strother Martin, Christopher Lee, Diana Dors, Stephen Boyd) – Classic Movie Review 7781

Director Burt Kennedy’s 1971 Hannie Caulder is an admirably strange if nasty-toned Anglo-Spanish spaghetti Western, made in Spain but set in Mexico, where Hannie (Raquel Welch) enlists the help of drifting bounty hunter Tom Price […]

Nov, 13

Breakout *** (1975, Charles Bronson, Robert Duvall, John Huston, Sheree North, Randy Quaid, Jill Ireland) – Classic Movie Review 7780

Director Tom Gries’s 1975 movie Breakout is a strongly cast, decent action thriller and a good star vehicle for Charles Bronson, who plays Nick Colton, a pilot paid to rescue innocent patsy Jay Wagner (Robert Duvall) […]

Nov, 12

Bloodline * (1979, Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, James Mason, Irene Papas, Romy Schneider, Omar Sharif, Gert Fröbe) – Classic Movie Review 7779

Audrey Hepburn was lured back to the screen after a three-year gap following Robin and Marian  1976) for director Terence Young’s thoroughly disappointing 1979 film version of Sidney Sheldon’s best-selling thriller Bloodline. She plays Elizabeth […]

Nov, 12

Red Sun [Soleil rouge] *** (1971, Charles Bronson, Toshirô Mifune, Alain Delon, Ursula Andress, Capucine) – Classic Movie Review 7,778

With an alluring star cast of Charles Bronson, Toshirô Mifune, Alain Delon, Ursula Andress and Capucine, the 1971 film Red Sun [Soleil rouge] is a robust and sometimes exciting eastern Western. Even with this alluring, […]

Nov, 12

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