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An Innocent Man ** (1989, Tom Selleck, F. Murray Abraham, Laila Robins) – Classic Movie Review 9092

Director Peter Yates’s 1989 action crime thriller An Innocent Man stars Tom Selleck as the innocent man Jimmie Rainwood, framed for drugs by two crooked cops, who finds himself in jail, where the going gets even tougher, […]

Nov, 23

Cry Vengeance ** (1954, Mark Stevens, Martha Hyer, Skip Homeier, Joan Vohs, Douglas Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 8915

Director Mark Stevens’s routine, semi-tough 1954 film noir thriller Cry Vengeance also stars Stevens as violent ex-cop Vic Barron, who hunts the villain, apparently Tino Morelli (Douglas Kennedy), who framed him and put him in […]

Sep, 18

Docteur Popaul [Scoundrel in White] [High Heels] ** (1972, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Mia Farrow, Laura Antonelli, Daniel Lecourtois) – Classic Movie Review 8762

Director Claude Chabrol’s 1972 black comedy Docteur Popaul [Scoundrel in White] [High Heels] stars Jean-Paul Belmondo as a medic called Dr Paul Simay, who marries the plain, handicapped Christine Dupont (Mia Farrow), takes over her […]

Jul, 26

The Tenth Victim [La Decima Vittima] *** (1965, Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Andress, Elsa Martinelli) – Classic Movie Review 8608

Director Elio Petri’s 1965 Italian movie The Tenth Victim [La Decima Vittima] is a fascinating, bizarre Sixties sci-fi action drama with a darkly comic undertone about a future society that offers prizes to licensed killers […]

Jun, 18

Up the River *** (1930, Spencer Tracy, Warren Hymer, Claire Luce, Humphrey Bogart) – Classic Movie Review 8029

Director John Ford’s 1930 comedy crime drama Up the River is an amusing junior-league Ford prison comedy, with the main interest less in the original story by Maurine Dallas Watkins and the script than in the teaming of […]

Jan, 18

The Naked Street ** (1955, Farley Granger, Anthony Quinn, Anne Bancroft, Peter Graves) – Classic Movie Review 7992

Writer-director Maxwell Shane’s 1955 The Naked Street is a rather limp and clichéd crime-romance film noir melodrama starring Farley Granger as Nicky Bradna, a small-time hood involved in ugly crimes and a doomed romance with Rosalie […]

Jan, 08

Tango & Cash **** (1989, Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, Teri Hatcher, Jack Palance) – Classic Movie Review 7651

Director Andrei Konchalovsky’s appealing 1989 Tango & Cash teams Sylvester Stallone as Lieutenant Raymond Tango with Kurt Russell Stallone as Lieutenant Gabriel Cash, LA’s top two rival cops. Rivals they may be, but the mismatched […]

Oct, 09

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