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Johnny Eager *** (1942, Robert Taylor, Lana Turner, Van Heflin, Edward Arnold) – Classic Movie Review 6707
Director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1942 MGM movie is a half-way good gangster picture with a convincing atmosphere and a commendably taut pace, in which nice girl Lisbeth Bard (Lana Turner) falls for vicious mobster Johnny Eager […]
Brother *** (2000, Takeshi Kitano, Omar Epps, Claude Maki) – Classic Movie Review 6530
Writer-director Takeshi Kitano also stars as an exiled Japanese gangster who teams up with a US mobster (Omar Epps) to battle for Los Angeles’s prime drug turf. This violent, stylishly arty 2000 crime thriller finds […]
Kids Return [Kizzu ritân] **** (1996, Ken Kaneko, Masanobu Andô, Leo Morimoto ) – Classic Movie Review 6526
Japanese writer-director Takeshi Kitano returns to form in his compassionate 1996 boxing tale about two troublesome teenage drifters, boxer Shinji (Masanobu Andô) and Yakuza gangster Masaru (Ken Kaneko), who take up boxing when their intimidation tactics […]
Six Bridges to Cross *** (1955, Tony Curtis, George Nader, Julie Adams, Jay C Flippen, Sal Mineo) – Classic Movie Review 6509
The 1955 American film noir crime film Six Bridges to Cross stars Tony Curtis, George Nader and Julie Adams. Director Joseph Pevney’s slickly produced, compelling, exciting and atmospheric 1955 film version of a Joseph F Dinneen novel called They […]
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond **** (1960, Ray Danton, Karen Steele, Elaine Stewart, Jesse White) – Classic Movie Review 6430
Director Budd Boetticher’s classic cult 1960 gangster B-movie, with lots of action and an authoritative, career-best performance by Ray Danton as the hoodlum Jack ‘Legs’ Diamond in prohibition-era Twenties New York, deserves its fame and […]
The Girl Who Had Everything ** (1953, Elizabeth Taylor, Fernando Lamas, William Powell) – Classic Movie Review 6419
Fiery Elizabeth Taylor stars as Jean Latimer, who upsets her attorney father Steve Latimer (William Powell) when she romances his gangster client Victor Y Raimondi (Fernando Lamas), in director Richard Thorpe’s routinely competent 1953 crime soap. […]
Sex Kittens Go to College ** (1960, Mamie Van Doren, Tuesday Weld, Mijanou Bardot, Mickey Shaughnessy, Louis Nye, Pamela Mason, Martin Milner) – Classic Movie Review 6318
‘You Never SAW A Student Body Like This!’ Ah hem, yes. Director Albert Zugsmith’s demented 1960 American exploitation sex comedy film Sex Kittens Go to College stars the memorable Mamie Van Doren as Doctor Mathilda […]