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- Dangerous Partners *** (1945, James Craig, Signe Hasso, Edmund Gwenn, Audrey Totter, Warner Anderson, Felix Bressart, Mabel Paige, John Warburton, Henry O’Neill, Grant Withers) – Classic Movie Review 13,965
- A Dangerous Profession **** (1949, George Raft, Ella Raines, Pat O’Brien, Jim Backus, Bill Williams, Roland Winters) – Classic Movie Review 13,964
- Bad Girl **** (1931, Sally Eilers, James Dunn, Minna Gombell, William Pawley, Frank Darien) – Classic Movie Review 13,963
- Pick-Up *** (1933, Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, William Harrigan) – Classic Movie Review 13,962
- Mr Ace *** (1946, George Raft, Sylvia Sidney, Stanley Ridges, Sara Haden, Jerome Cowan, Sid Silvers) – Classic Movie Review 13,961
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- Cousin Cousine *** (1975, Marie-Christine Barrault, Victor Lanoux, Marie-France Pisier, Guy Marchand) – Classic Movie Review 13,957
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Trent’s Last Case ***½ (1952, Michael Wilding, Margaret Lockwood, Orson Welles, John McCallum) Classic Movie Review 1675
Producer/director Herbert Wilcox’s involving and diverting 1952 British movie version of E C Bentley’s classic 1913 detective novel Trent’s Last Case is made efficiently and briskly, but in basic fashion and without much particular style or […]
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang *** (2005, Robert Downey Jr, Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan) – Classic Movie Review 1669
Robert Downey Jr appears with his son Indio in this tongue-in-cheek 2005 hardboiled crime comedy, written and directed by Shane Black, also starring Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan and Corbin Bernsen. Indio plays Downey’s character Harry Lockhart at […]
The Naked City ***** (1948, Barry Fitzgerald, Don Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 1581
Director Jules Dassin’s influential, double-Oscar-winning 1948 documentary-style thriller is still sizzlingly exciting and atmospheric. It succeeds triumphantly in being designed to give a feel of vibrant ‘you are there’ reality by being based on a true case […]
Beverly Hills Cop **** (1984, Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Ronny Cox, Lisa Eilbacher, Steven Berkoff, Paul Reiser, Bronson Pinchot, Jonathan Banks) – Classic Movie Review 1,566
The lean and hungry Eddie Murphy (just 23) scores a bull’s eye with the 1984 blockbuster comedy thriller film Beverly Hills Cop, bringing back the cynical, glossy flavour of the 80s. Murphy stars in his […]
Sea of Love **** (1989, Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin, John Goodman) – Classic Movie Review 1513
Director Harold Becker’s sizzling 1989 thriller Sea of Love is arguably his finest movie, though City Hall (1996) comes a very near second. Al Pacino is on his best form as love-crazed cop Detective Frank Keller, […]
Last Dance *** (1996, Sharon Stone, Rob Morrow, Randy Quaid) – Classic Movie Review 1484
Director Bruce Beresford’s 1996 release stars Sharon Stone, who gives one of her least typical performances in this incredibly depressing drama. It was dubbed Dead Woman Walking as it’s about Cindy Liggett, a female killer […]
Rush Hour *** (1998, Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker) – Classic Movie Review 1342
Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker team up as Inspector Lee and Detective James Carter for entertaining, crime-fighting chaos. Director Brett Ratner’s rumbustious, highly popular 1998 action comedy thriller stars Jackie Chan as a Hong Kong […]