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Illustrious Corpses [Cadaveri Eccellenti] **** (1976, Lino Ventura, Alain Cuny, Paolo Bonacelli, Marcel Bozzuffi, Max von Sydow, Fernando Rey, Charles Vanel, Tina Aumont) – Classic Movie Review 6915

Lino Ventura gives astonishingly powerful performance as Inspector Amerigo Rogas, the tenacious police detective on the case of the mysterious murders of some Italian Supreme Court judges, in director Francesco Rosi’s illustrious 1975 Italian political […]

Apr, 12

Arabesque ***½ (1966, Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren, Alan Badel, Kieron Moore) – Classic Movie Review 2912

Producer-director Stanley Donen in 1966 tries to repeat the success of his Charade (1963)with another sleekly handsome romantic pair (Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren) thrown into another jokey, escapist Hitchcock-style thriller plot, complete with spies, international […]

Sep, 15

Criss Cross **** (1949, Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea) – Classic Movie Review 1579

Director Robert Siodmak’s intriguing tangled web of a 1949 thriller stars Burt Lancaster as Steve Thompson, who returns to his home town of Los Angeles and finds his lovely ex-wife Anna Dundee (Yvonne De Carlo) […]

Aug, 23

Out of the Past [Build My Gallows High] ***** (1947, Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming) – Classic Movie Review 914

Director Jacques Tourneur’s brilliant 1947 film noir classic Out of the Past [Build My Gallows High] is an extremely engrossing, especially rousing thriller. It is the quintessence of noir, one of the most typical and […]

Mar, 15

Blood Simple ***** (1984, John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya, M Emmet Walsh) – Classic Movie Review 289

The Coen Brothers make their film debut in 1984 with the astonishing, thrillingly realised neo-noir thriller Blood Simple. Frances McDormand also makes her film debut and M Emmet Walsh stars as the double-crossing private detective. […]

Oct, 13

Double Indemnity ***** (1944, Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G Robinson) – Classic Movie Review 164

Co-writer-director Billy Wilder’s 1944 black and white film noir thriller milestone Double Indemnity still plays beautifully whether on late-night TV or on cinema revivals. Hugely admired and much imitated, it is a sizzling movie masterpiece. […]

Aug, 15

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