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The Green Cockatoo *** (1937, John Mills, René Ray, Robert Newton, Charles Oliver, Bruce Seton) – Classic Movie Review 12,514

The entertaining 1937 British crime drama film The Green Cockatoo stars John Mills as a song and dance man trying to avenge his brother (Robert Newton)’s death at the hands of vicious crooks. ‘She Lost […]

May, 26

Shakedown **** (1950, Howard Duff, Peggy Dow, Brian Donlevy, Lawrence Tierney, Bruce Bennett, Anne Vernon) – Classic Movie Review 9479

Director Joseph [Joe] Pevney’s 1950 Universal International Pictures black and white B-movie crime thriller Shakedown is a little gem of a movie in the best film noir crime drama tradition. Howard Duff plays unscrupulous Jack […]

Mar, 08

Too Hot To Handle [Playgirl After Dark] * (1960, Jayne Mansfield, Leo Genn, Karlheinz Böhm, Sheldon Lawrence, Christopher Lee, Patrick Holt, Barbara Windsor, Danik Patisson) – Classic Movie Review 8423

Jayne Mansfield stars as Midnight Franklin, a nightclub exotic singer-dancer trying to save her boyfriend, London gangland and club boss Johnny Solo (Leo Genn), from an extortion racket when he gets threats for protection at […]

May, 02

The Saint Strikes Back *** (1939, George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Jonathan Hale, Neil Hamilton, Jerome Cowan, Edward Gargan, Barry Fitzgerald) – Classic Movie Review 3218

For this 1939 second crime thriller in RKO Radio Pictures’s eight film series about The Saint, The Saint Strikes Back, debonair George Sanders takes over as Simon Templar from Louis Hayward, who played him in […]

Jan, 03

Brighton Rock ***** (1947, Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell, Alan Wheatley, Carol Marsh) – Classic Movie Review 724

Richard Attenborough gives an inspired, chilling performance as the psychotic young tearaway Pinkie Brown in the Boulting Brothers’ marvellous 1947 film version of Graham Greene’s classic novel Brighton Rock. The 24-year-old Richard Attenborough gives an […]

Jan, 19

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