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Quiet Please: Murder **** (1942, George Sanders, Gail Patrick, Richard Denning, Lynne Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 9871  

Shhhh… pray silence please… George Sanders is just committing a murder in the library… well that’s one way to get a book…  Director John Larkin’s 1942 Quiet Please: Murder is a pleasantly peculiar library-set crime-drama […]

Jun, 06

The Collector **** (1965, Terence Stamp, Samantha Eggar, Mona Washbourne) – Classic Movie Review 8681

Director William Wyler’s 1965 The Collector stars Terence Stamp as a dangerously withdrawn, deranged bank clerk and butterfly collector called Freddie Clegg, who decides to collect human specimens, and abducts a young woman art student […]

Jul, 07

The Skull *** (1965, Peter Cushing, Patrick Wymark, Christopher Lee, Jill Bennett) – Classic Movie Review 3104

Director Freddie Francis’s 1965 Amicus horror thriller stars Peter Cushing as a professor who wants to acquire the Marquis de Sade’s skull from an eccentric dealer (Patrick Wymark). Christopher Lee also stars as Cushing’s antiquarian […]

Nov, 28

The Ninth Gate **** (1999, Johnny Depp, Lena Olin, Emmanuelle Seigner, Barbara Jefford) – Classic Movie Review 1,628

Co-writer/director Roman Polanski’s shamefully neglected and underrated 1999 horror thriller film The Ninth Gate stars Johnny Depp as Dean Corso, a New York rare book dealer who is hired by the creepy collector of books […]

Sep, 03

Toy Story 2 ***** (1999, voices of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Don Rickles) – Classic Movie Review 1206

The old-style toy cowboy Woody (voice of Tom Hanks) is back in director John Lasseter’s eagerly awaited Pixar/Disney 1999 sequel to the 1995 hit Toy Story. It became Britain’s biggest box-office success in 2000. This time, […]

May, 12

Thir13een Ghosts (2001, F Murray Abraham, Matthew Lillard) – Classic Film Review 1144

Director Steve Beck’s 2001 release is more trashy horror hokum from the Dark Castle production company, again featuring plenty of madcap characters. Neal Stevens and Richard D’Ovidio’s screenplay is based on Robb White’s story for […]

Apr, 25

Dressed to Kill [Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Code] **** (1946, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Patricia Morison, Edmond Breon, Carl Harbord) – Classic Movie Review 985

All good things must come to an end, but the 1946 mystery film Dressed to Kill finds Basil Rathbone’s Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce’s Dr Watson going out in style in the last of their […]

Mar, 25

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