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Posts Tagged "british noir"

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They Drive by Night **** (1938, Emlyn Williams, Ernest Thesiger, Anna Konstam, Allan Jeayes) – Classic Movie Review 8111

Director Arthur B Woods’s gritty, noirish 1938 vintage British black-and-white crime thriller They Drive by Night is taken from James Curtis’s 1938 novel, with the author as one of the screen-writers (screenplay and dialogue), along […]

Feb, 09

Interpol [Pickup Alley] ** (1957, Victor Mature, Anita Ekberg, Trevor Howard, Bonar Colleano, Marne Maitland, Eric Pohlmann, Sydney Tafler, Sidney James, Lionel Murton, Danny Green, Yana) – Classic Movie Review 8013

Director John Gilling’s rather pedestrian and plodding 1957 British black and white action thriller Interpol [Pickup Alley] has few surprises and little atmosphere, but it is distinguished by the dominating presence of Trevor Howard, who […]

Jan, 14

The Upturned Glass *** (1947, James Mason, Rosamund John, Pamela Mason, Ann Stephens, Henry Oscar) – Classic Movie Review 7989

The slick 1947 British film noir thriller The Upturned Glass stars James Mason as a neurosurgeon intent on avenging the murder of his lover. Director Lawrence Huntington’s 1947 The Upturned Glass is a slickly handled […]

Jan, 07

Payroll [I Promised to Pay] **** (1961, Michael Craig, Françoise Prévost, Billie Whitelaw, William Lucas, Kenneth Griffith, Tom Bell) – Classic Movie Review 7,787

Michael Craig and Billie Whitelaw star in the 1961 British noir crime thriller film Payroll about a group of four criminals who plan a wages robbery on a payroll van that ends in disaster.  Director Sidney […]

Nov, 14

West 11 *** (1963, Alfred Lynch, Eric Portman, Kathleen Harrison, Diana Dors, Kathleen Breck, Freda Jackson, Finlay Currie, Harold Lang) – Classic Movie Review 7766

Director Michael Winner orchestrates the atmospheric, downbeat 1963 British action crime thriller West 11 with some degree of style, helped by Otto Heller’s gritty, noir-style London location black and white photography and Keith Waterhouse and […]

Nov, 09

The Long Memory *** (1953, John Mills, John McCallum, Elizabeth Sellars, Eva Bergh) – Classic Movie Review 7751

Director Robert Hamer’s 1953 British black-and-white film noir thriller The Long Memory is a rather tame and routine crime drama that, as a story, is not always too convincing and probably will not live too […]

Nov, 04

The Intruder ** (1953, Jack Hawkins, George Cole, Dennis Price, Michael Medwin, Hugh Williams, Susan Shaw) – Classic Movie Review 7,314

The 1953 film The Intruder stars Jack Hawkins as an ex-colonel who returns home one evening to find it being burgled by an armed intruder (Michael Medwin), once a brave soldier in his wartime tank […]

Jul, 20

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