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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 four criminals who plan a wages robbery on a payroll van that ends in disaster. Director Sidney […]
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 stars in the 2018 American biographical crime film The Old Man & the Gun as career criminal and prison escape artist Forrest Tucker. Robert Redford twinkles and is endlessly charismatic as real-life bank robber Forrest […]
Widows ** (2018, Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki, Robert Duvall, Colin Farrell, Brian Tyree Henry, Daniel Kaluuya, Liam Neeson, Cynthia Erivo) – Movie Review
Steve McQueen’s 2018 cinema version of Lynda La Plante’s masterly 1983 British TV mini-series Widows is both a posh art film and an exciting mainstream heist thriller, but only just. Something is lost on the […]
5 Against the House **** (1955, Guy Madison, Kim Novak, Brian Keith, Alvy Moore, Kerwin Mathews, William Conrad) – Classic Movie Review 7612
Director Phil Karlson’s commendable 1955 black and white film noir crime thriller 5 Against the House is especially suspenseful and inventively written. It is notable as an early example of a filmed heist and depiction […]