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Time to Kill **** (1942, Lloyd Nolan, Heather Angel, Ethel Griffies, James Seay, Doris Merrick) – Classic Movie Review 2497

Time to Kill (1942) is the first screen adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s novel The High Window and the final Michael Shayne film starring Lloyd Nolan made at Fox, which then closed down their popular B-movie […]

May, 17

No Man of Her Own **** (1950, Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund, Phyllis Thaxter, Jane Cowl, Lyle Bettger) – Classic Movie Review 2258

Director Mitchell Leisen’s 1950 movie is an engrossing, complex and powerfully acted mix of film noir thriller and romantic melodrama based on a splendidly far-fetched crime novel called I Married a Dead Man by Cornell […]

Mar, 13

The Cincinnati Kid ***** (1965, Steve McQueen, Ann-Margret, Edward G Robinson, Karl Malden, Joan Blondell, Tuesday Weld) – Classic Movie Review 2,227

Director Norman Jewison’s classic 1965 gambling suspense thriller film The Cincinnati Kid stars Steve McQueen and Edward G Robinson as poker game opponents in a gripping, haunting battle royale with a bunch of iconic Sixties […]

Mar, 01

The Woman in the Window ***** (1944, Edward G Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, Dan Duryea) – Classic Movie Review 2,174

Fritz Lang’s superb 1944 film noir thriller The Woman in the Window stars Edward G Robinson as a professor obsessed with the portrait of a woman in the window next to his men’s club. While […]

Feb, 13

The Reckless Moment ****½ (1949, James Mason, Joan Bennett, Geraldine Brooks) – Classic Movie Review 2143

Director Max Ophüls‘s uber-tense and super-stylish 1949 film noir suspense thriller is set in Balboa 50 miles from Los Angeles. It stars Joan Bennett as Lucia Harper, an American middle-class mother becomes increasingly deranged after she discovers […]

Feb, 01

The Skin Game ** (1931, Edmund Gwenn, Jill Esmond, C V France, Helen Haye) – Classic Movie Review 2101

Produced by British International Pictures, The Skin Game (1931) is worth a little look but it is a mostly fairly tedious experience, and one of Alfred Hitchcock’s least interesting movies, probably just of interest for Hitchcock […]

Jan, 23

Jade ** (1995, David Caruso, Linda Fiorentino, Chazz Palminteri) – Classic Movie Review 2038

Director William Friedkin’s trashy 1995 thriller stars David Caruso, whose bright, intense TV talent is over-exposed here on the big screen, playing David Corelli, a bright assistant district attorney investigating a nasty hatchet killing among San […]

Jan, 02

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