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Isn’t It Romantic ** (1948, Veronica Lake, Billy De Wolfe, Patric Knowles, Mona Freeman, Mary Hatcher, Roland Culver) – Classic Movie Review 11,101
Director Norman Z McLeod’s 1948 black and white Paramount film Isn’t It Romantic stars Veronica Lake as Candy Cameron, who has two sisters (Mona Freeman, Mary Hatcher) and prefers conman Rick Brannon (Patric Knowles), a […]
Murder by Proxy [Blackout] ** (1954, Dane Clark, Belinda Lee, Betty Ann Davies) – Classic Movie Review 11,082
‘EXPLODES… in a sinister network of evil!’ Director Terence Fisher’s 1954 British film noir crime drama Murder by Proxy [Blackout] stars Dane Clark and Belinda Lee. The story, based on Helen Nielsen’s novel Murder by […]
Diamond Head ** (1962, Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux, George Chakiris, James Darren, France Nuyen, Aline MacMahon) – Classic Movie Review 11,043
The creaky, old-style 1962 drama film Diamond Head is a case of well-meaning, but badly dated and overheated melodramatics in Hawaii, with Charlton Heston over-egging the pudding as a bigoted, bullying Hawaiian landowner. ‘The Giant […]
Larceny **** (1948, John Payne, Joan Caulfield, Dan Duryea, Shelley Winters) – Classic Movie Review 10,966
Tory (Shelley Winters): ‘Stop twisting my arm! People will think we’re married!’ Director George Sherman’s exceptionally enjoyable vintage 1948 film noir crime thriller Larceny stars John Payne as a devil-may-care confidence trickster called Rick Maxon, […]
The Money Trap *** (1965, Glenn Ford, Elke Sommer, Rita Hayworth, Ricardo Montalban, Joseph Cotten) – Classic Movie Review 10,934
Director Burt Kennedy’s 1966 watchable but strained Macbeth-style neo noir police crime thriller The Money Trap is a reunion of the great Gilda co-stars (20 years on), Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth, but by now, […]
Maria Chapdelaine *** (1934, Madeleine Renaud, Jean Gabin, Suzanne Desprès, Gaby Triquet) – Classic Movie Review 10,928
Director Julien Duvivier’s 1934 classic romance Maria Chapdelaine [The Naked Heart] is based on the classic French-Canadian novel by Louis Hémon, and stars Madeleine Renaud and Jean Gabin. It is a compelling love story set […]
This Earth Is Mine ** (1959, Rock Hudson, Jean Simmons, Claude Rains, Dorothy McGuire) – Classic Movie Review 10,911
‘I want you… no matter what the price or penalty!’ Claude Rains as Rock Hudson’s grandfather? That’s the kind of half-brained idea that propels director Henry King’s soapy 1959 Universal International Pictures Technicolor and CinemaScope […]