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Drive a Crooked Road *** (1954, Mickey Rooney, Dianne Foster, Kevin McCarthy, Jack Kelly) – Classic Movie Review 8914

Director Richard Quine’s gritty 1954 black and white film noir crime drama thriller Drive a Crooked Road offers the 33-year-old Mickey Rooney a useful star role and he grabs it to give a fine performance […]

Sep, 18

The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again ** (1979, Tim Conway, Don Knotts, Tim Matheson) – Classic Movie Review 8469

Director Vincent McEveety’s 1979 The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again stars Don Knotts and Tim Conway, who reprise their roles as the daffy, knockabout inept outlaw villains Theodore Ogelvie and Amos Tucker from the The […]

May, 15

Queimada [Burn!] **** (1969, Marlon Brando, Evaristo Márquez, Renato Salvatori) – Classic Movie Review 7962

Director Gillo Pontecorvo’s 1968 Queimada [Burn!] [Battle of the Antilles] is part epic adventure-drama, part critical account of British colonialism. Pontecorvo’s sequel to his 1965 The Battle of Algiers tells the story of the British […]

Dec, 31

The Day They Robbed the Bank of England *** (1960, Aldo Ray, Elizabeth Sellars, Peter O’Toole, Kieron Moore) – Classic Movie Review 7754

The IRA plot to upset the English economy at the turn of the last century in 1901 by sending in a three man crew to steal all the Bank of England’s loot of gold in its […]

Nov, 04

Larceny, Inc *** (1942, Edward G Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford, Edward Brophy, Anthony Quinn, Jack Carson, Harry Davenport) – Classic Movie Review 7297

Director Lloyd Bacon’s 1942 Warner Bros crime comedy Larceny, Inc stars Edward G Robinson, who gives yet another bright and breezy performance in this lighthearted gangster spoof based on Laura Perelman and S J Perelman’s […]

Jul, 16

A Time for Dying *** (1969, Richard Lapp, Anne Randall, Victor Jory, Audie Murphy, Peter Brocco) – Classic Movie Review 7289

Writer-director Budd Boetticher’s 1969 Western A Time for Dying unites him with producer-star Audie Murphy, who returns to a role he had taken as far back as 1950 in Kansas Raiders, that of the outlaw […]

Jul, 14

Seems Like Old Times **** (1980, Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Charles Grodin) – Classic Movie Review 6808

Ah, it does seem like old times, with Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase, back in the good old days! Director Jay Sandrich’s 1980 comedy is one of umpteen movies written by Neil Simon and produced […]

Mar, 16

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