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The Glass Key **** (1935, George Raft, Claire Dodd, Edward Arnold) – Classic Movie Review 4928
Frank Tuttle’s 1935 crime mystery film The Glass Key is the excellent first movie of the 1931 Dashiell Hammett classic thriller novel, with its stars George Raft and Claire Dodd ideally paired. ‘He asks no […]
Yojimbo ***** (1961, Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tôno, Tatsuya Nakadai) – Classic Movie Review 4924
Co-writer/ director Akira Kurosawa’s 1961 Japanese adventure stars Toshiro Mifune as crafty wandering samurai Sanjuro Kuwabatake, who hires himself out as a professional killer and bodyguard (yojimbo in Japanese) to both sides of gangsters in a […]
Fury at Showdown *** (1957, John Derek, John Smith, Carolyn Craig, Nick Adams, Gage Clarke, Robert Griffin) – Classic Movie Review 4176
Handsome young American stars of the day, John Derek, John Smith and Nick Adams, are cast as Brock Mitchell, his brother Tracy, and Mikey Sutton in director Gerd Oswald’s surprisingly expert little 1957 support Western. […]
La Scorta [The Escort] **** (1993, Carlo Cecchi, Enrico Lo Verso, Claudio Amendola, Tony Sperandeo, Ricky Memphis) – Classic Movie Review 3,208
Italian director Ricky Tognazzi’s taut, exciting 1993 documentary-style 1993 Italian crime thriller film La Scorta [The Escort] is set in Sicily, where the men who protect special investigators find themselves sharing their charges’ constant fear of death. […]
Wild Card *** (2015, Jason Statham, Michael Angarano, Stanley Tucci) – Movie Review
Jason Statham stars as ultra-tough and uber-resourceful Las Vegas bodyguard Nick Wild in a gritty and intriguing remake of the Burt Reynolds crime thriller Heat (1986). Statham’s Wild gets a weird thing going with rich young entrepreneur Cyrus Kinnick (Michael […]
People I Know **** (2002, Al Pacino, Téa Leoni, Kim Basinger, Ryan O’Neal, Richard Schiff, Bill Nunn, Robert Klein, Mark Webber, Rex Reed) – Classic Movie Review 1158
Director Daniel Algrant’s 2002 film stars a just brilliant Al Pacino, who scalds the screen as Eli Wurman, a burnt-out, over-stretched Manhattan PR press agent trying to arrange a charity function, struggling with actors and the […]
Bullets over Broadway ***** (1994, John Cusack, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Tilly) – Classic Movie Review 347
This glittering old-style comedy from an on-form writer-director Woody Allen dazzled us in 1994. Unfortunately he doesn’t appear this time, but he’s ensured that a great ensemble cast does. The story takes place in 1920s […]