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Once a Thief *** (1965, Alain Delon, Ann-Margret, Van Heflin, Jack Palance) – Classic Movie Review 8252
Director Ralph Nelson’s 1965 black and white crime thriller Once a Thief [Les Tueurs de San Francisco] stars French superstar Alain Delon, who tries to make it in Hollywood as San Francisco ex-con Eddie Pedak, […]
Cool Breeze ** (1972, Thalmus Rasulala, Judy Pace, Julian Christopher) – Classic Movie Review 8203
Writer-director Barry Pollack’s 1972 Cool Breeze is an interesting if ordinary blaxploitation thriller movie reworking (for the third time) of the 1950 classic The Asphalt Jungle, with a predominately black cast headed by Jim Watkins […]
No Road Back ** (1957, Skip Homeier, Paul Carpenter, Patricia Dainton, Norman Wooland, Margaret Rawlings, Eleanor Summerfield, Alfie Bass, Sean Connery, Philip Ray) – Classic Movie Review 8032
Six years after his first London stage appearance in South Pacific, Connery, aged 27, makes his film debut proper as Spike in a small part in director Montgomery Tully’s 1957 British black and white B-movie […]
Payroll [I Promised to Pay] **** (1961, Michael Craig, Françoise Prévost, Billie Whitelaw, William Lucas, Kenneth Griffith, Tom Bell) – Classic Movie Review 7,787
Michael Craig and Billie Whitelaw star in the 1961 British noir crime thriller film Payroll about a group of criminals who plan a wages robbery that ends in disaster. Director Sidney Hayers’s taut, tough 1961 […]
The Day They Robbed the Bank of England *** (1960, Aldo Ray, Elizabeth Sellars, Peter O’Toole, Kieron Moore) – Classic Movie Review 7754
The IRA plot to upset the English economy at the turn of the last century in 1901 by sending in a three man crew to steal all the Bank of England’s loot of gold in its […]
The Old Man & the Gun *** (2018, Robert Redford, Casey Affleck, Sissy Spacek, Danny Glover, Tom Waits) – Movie Review
Robert Redford twinkles and is endlessly charismatic as real-life bank robber Forrest Tucker, who escaped from San Quentin at the age of 70 and carried out a string of gentlemanly heists, with the help of […]
Widows ** (2018, Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki, Robert Duvall, Colin Farrell, Brian Tyree Henry, Daniel Kaluuya, Liam Neeson, Cynthia Erivo) – Movie Review
Something is lost on the way to 2018 Chicago for the cinema version of Lynda La Plante’s masterly 1983 British TV mini-series Widows. Director / co-writer Steve McQueen wants a posh movie, and this is the problem, with […]