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Kansas City Confidential **** (1952, John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster) – Classic Movie Review 7556

Director Phil Karlson’s taut, tense, crisp, and expertly made little 1952 black and white film noir thriller Kansas City Confidential [The Secret Four] stars John Payne, Coleen Gray and Preston Foster, and is based on […]

Sep, 10

Dreyfus [The Dreyfus Case] *** (1931, Cedric Hardwicke, George Merritt, Charles Carson, Sam Livesey, Garry Marsh, Randle Ayrton, George Zucco) – Classic Movie Review 6142

Cedric Hardwicke stars as the real-life French-Jewish officer Captain Alfred Dreyfus, who is accused and convicted of spying in 1890s France, after German staff had forged evidence to convict him, ending up doing life on […]

Oct, 25

The Son of Dr Jekyll *** (1951, Louis Hayward, Alexander Knox, Jody Lawrance, Lester Matthews, Paul Cavanagh, Gavin Muir, Rhys Williams) – Classic Movie Review 2765

Producer-director Seymour Friedman’s forgotten 1951 chiller tries for an interesting expansion and continuation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde story with the bad doctor’s son Edward Jekyll (Louis Hayward) going through a […]

Aug, 01

The Art of War *** (2000, Wesley Snipes, Anne Archer, Donald Sutherland, Maury Chaykin) – Classic Movie Review 1076

Director Christian Duguay’s slick and impressively preposterous 2000 thriller stars Wesley Snipes as Neil Shaw, an undercover agent for the United Nations dirty tricks squad. Shaw is set up as the patsy after the Chinese […]

Apr, 12

The Man in the Iron Mask ***** (1939, Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, Warren William) – Classic Movie Review 1034

Director James Whale’s 1939 black and white adventure classic The Man in the Iron Mask is an exuberantly spirited display of swashbuckling, which helps light up this thoroughly enjoyable, lustily entertaining Three Musketeers tale. It […]

Apr, 01

Red Corner **** (1997, Richard Gere, Bai Ling, Bradley Whitford) – Classic Movie Review 1014

Director Jon Avnet’s strong, fired-up 1997 thriller stars Richard Gere as an American lawyer who is in Beijing for TV contract work. He has a one-night stand, wakes up next to a dead young woman […]

Mar, 29

Stage Fright **** (1950, Marlene Dietrich, Jane Wyman, Richard Todd, Michael Wilding, Alastair Sim, Sybil Thorndike, Kay Walsh, Patricia Hitchcock) – Classic Movie Review 326

Alfred Hitchcock recalls his 1950 British thriller film Stage Fright: ‘Several of the reviewers mentioned Selwyn Jepson’s novel Man Running might make a good Hitchcock picture and I, like an idiot, believed them.’ ‘Love held […]

Oct, 26

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