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The Racketeer [Love’s Conquest ] *** (1929, Robert Armstrong, Carole Lombard, Roland Drew) – Classic Movie Review 7380
Director Howard Higgin’s 1929 Pre-Code love triangle crime melodrama The Racketeer (known as Love’s Conquest in the UK, where it was banned by the British Board of Film Censors and only passed in 1930 after being cut by seven minutes) tells the tale of criminals […]
It Was an Accident (2000, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Max Beesley, James Bolam, Thandie Newton, Nicola Stapleton, Neil Dudgeon) – Classic Movie Review 7313
It was a comedy? No, I didn’t think so! Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in director Metin Hüseyin‘s 2000 It Was an Accident as Nicky Burkett, who comes out of jail after four years and returns to Walthamstow, London, to find […]
Exclusive *** (1937, Charles Ruggles, Fred MacMurray, Frances Farmer, Lloyd Nolan) – Classic Movie Review 7223
Director Alexander Hall’s bright, lively, strongly cast 1937 Paramount Pictures black and white movie Exclusive is an authentic-seeming melodrama about rival newspapers, enriched with showy performances from Charles Ruggles as newspaper proprietor Tod Swain and Frances […]
The Freshman **** (1990, Marlon Brando, Matthew Broderick, Bruno Kirby, Penelope Ann Miller, Maximilian Schell, Frank Whaley, Jon Polito) – Classic Movie Review 7211
Writer/ producer/ director Andrew Bergman’s 1990 black comedy The Freshman brings Marlon Brando back to a main role on the screen after a decade away to play Carmine ‘Jimmy the Toucan’ Sabatini, a Mafia Godfather who […]
The Secret 6 *** (1931, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown, Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Ralph Bellamy) – Classic Movie Review 7198
A classy roster of actors embellishes director George W Hill’s 1931 gangster crime thriller The Secret 6, which tells a traditional tale of gangland warfare, bribery and corruption, and the rival crusading reporters (Johnny Mack […]
Yardie ** (2018, Aml Ameen, Stephen Graham, Fraser James ) – Movie Review
Idris Elba’s intriguing but shaky 2018 directorial debut Yardie is a decent and entertaining enough London gangland revenge crime thriller, but overall must count as a bit of disappointment. The problems are a weak period […]
Villain *** (1971, Richard Burton, Ian McShane, Nigel Davenport, Joss Ackland, Cathleen Nesbitt, Donald Sinden, T P McKenna, Fiona Lewis, Tony Selby, Colin Welland) – Classic Movie Review 7,065
The powerful but distasteful 1971 British gangster thriller movie Villain stars Richard Burton in a nasty role as Vic Dakin, a sadistic, murderous, mother-obsessed London East End cockney gangland leader. Director Michael Tuchner’s powerful but […]